Home Practice
Students should practice their band lesson and class homework 5 days/week, 15 minutes/day.
Use this link to play along with a recording of the music in your band book and your warmups.
Click here for instructions on How to Practice an Instrument
Habits of a Successful Beginner Band Musician
Click on the link to the right to access videos of professional musicians playing each line in your Habits book, to help you see and hear your assignments. Scroll down, then click on your instrument.
This page also contains the link to activate your digital access code to use the digital version of your Habits book.
Click the link to the left to play along with the videos for Foundation Warm-Ups Set #1-6.
Choose Drone + Metronome to hear just a simple steady beat with your note playing.
Choose Cinematic to play along with full accompaniment that turns your warm-ups into a film score.
Individual Instrument Videos: These contain both drone + metronome, followed by cinematic accompaniment. The video shows your instrument's music.
Percussion (drums and mallets)
More Warm-Up Accompaniment tracks: Use these to play along with our class warmups when you warmup at home.
Epic Sixteenths, Line A
Epic Sixteenths, Line B
Epic Sixteenths, Line C
Epic Sixteenths, Line D
HabitFingeringCharts_Individual_Flute.pdfHabitFingeringCharts_Individual_Clarinet.pdfHabitFingeringCharts_Individual_Trombone.pdfHabitFingeringCharts_Individual_ASax.pdfHabitFingeringCharts_Individual_Trumpet.pdfHabitFingeringCharts_Individual_Euphonium.pdf