Band and String Technique Set to Movie Soundtracks
Engage your beginning and intermediate bands, orchestras, and individual students with a variety of exercises covering fundamentals, technique, and warm-ups, all paired with exciting movie soundtracks. These innovative exercises are written by Brian Balmages with audio production by Fred Flowerday.
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Featuring iconic music from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone!
Explore supplemental materials like the Musician’s Map here
Featuring soundtracks from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Godzilla vs. Kong, Aquaman, Batman, Wonka and more!
Featuring soundtracks from The Nun II, It, Beetlejuice, Dark Shadows, Doctor Sleep, Joker, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Joker: Folie à Deux, Gremlins, Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Watchers.
Featuring soundtracks from The Polar Express, Elf, Jack Frost, 8-Bit Christmas, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Featuring music from Meg 2: The Trench
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Use these multi-level exercises for at-home practice or in class with free printable PDFs. Playing with movie soundtrack accompaniments make even the most fundamental exercises fun, no matter the ability level.
The Foundations series covers all of these skills and more!
Winds:
- long tones
- first notes
- slurs
- interval slurs
- accents
- articulation studies
- intonation
- flow studies
- natural minor intervals and scales
- finger twisters
- eighth rests on the beat
- 6/8 time
Percussion:
- four on a hand
- double sticking
- alternate sticking
- paradiddles
- multiple bounce strokes
- flams
- flam taps
- flamacues
- flam paradiddles
- eight on a hand
- rolls
- double paradiddles
Strings:
- open strings
- tuning notes to open strings
- D, A, and G tetrachords
- crossing strings
- bow lifts
- slurs / slurring across strings
- bow studies
- accents
- harmonics
- H3 and extensions
- chromatic fingerings
- 6/8 time