Sound Innovations -  Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises -  including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2 -  1 -  and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key -  including:

* Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5,  6,  or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5,  6,  and 8-Note Scales) * Chorales

The compositions were written by Roland Barrett -  Chris Bernotas -  Jodie Blackshaw -  Matt Conaway -  Ralph Ford -  Tyler S. Grant -  Rob Grice -  John O'Reilly -  Robert Sheldon -  Todd Stalter -  Randall Standridge -  Michael Story -  and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility -  or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales -  we are confident your performers will be excited -  motivated -  and inspired by using Sound Innovations -  Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band.