Intermediate Level

Written specifically for intermediate band, the exercises are grades 2–3, and cover the key signatures and time signatures used in grade 2–3 performance literature.

• Key signatures included (in this order): concert B-flat major, G minor, E-flat major, C minor, F major, D minor, A-flat major, F minor, D-flat major, B minor, C major, A minor, G major, and E minor.
• Time signatures included: 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, 9/8, 12/8, 5/8, and 7/8.
• The instrumentation includes two parts each for: clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, and trombone.
• Percussion books include: percussion 1, percussion 2, timpani, and mallets.

Benefits

Improve your students ensemble skills as they learn how to balance and to create a rich, full sound. Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Intermediate Band exercises are at grade 2–3 levels grouped by key signature. By spending even a few minutes of each rehearsal with these exercises, your students will learn to apply critical listening skills—tone, tuning, technique, balance, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, and expression—to their music. Percussion is included in every exercise and chorale, keeping your back row engaged.

Exercise Types

Sample Exercises

With 412 exercises, the variety of material will allow you to rotate to a different exercise for every rehearsal.

Chorales & Scale Chorales

Scale chorals are harmonized scale chorales that feature two lines for every student part: the scale, and their part in the chorale. A variety of chorales, written by some of the most renowned composers of music for young band, provide opportunities for students to develop the essential skills of tone production, blend, balance, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, style, and musical expression.

Rhythm Resources

With Rhythm and Rhythm Subdivision exercises, students will learn to understand and internalize rhythmic subdivision.