Foundations For Superior Performance - Bass Clarinet

Foundations for Superior Performance  is an excellent method that aims to improve the performance of middle school and high school band ensembles. The series is flexible to fit any situation or time allotment and provides the director with resources to help students achieve goals. The books contain exercises in all twelve major and minor keys that help to improve tone production, articulation, endurance, range, listening skills.

Contents:

• Warm-Ups – articulation exercises, long tones, and progressive brass lip slurs and woodwind exercises to be played simultaneously.
• Chorales and Tuning Exercises – interval tuning, chord tuning, and chorales in the eight primary concert band keys.
• Technique – major and minor scales, mini-scales, scale patterns, scales in thirds, interval studies, and triad and chord studies in all 12 keys.
• Scales – one-octave scales and arpeggios, full range scales, chromatic scales, major arpeggios and inversions, and advanced fingering charts.

• Percussion Books – Practical exercises for mallets, snare drum, auxiliary percussion, and timpani.