The object of this book is to integrate aspects of Jazz-Style drumming with the Afro-Cuban inflected rock and funk rhythms that were explored in Groovin' in Clave. The player will be able to move free...
Transcribed Trumpet Solos with Piano Accompaniment This incredible book of well known 'Standards' contains complete note for note transcriptions and piano reduction of the combo arrangements from some...
The Rhythm Party Guide Book/CD can be used at home or in any school setting. It includes complete facilitator instructions for those who wish to move from the Rhythm Party experience to a traditional...
The famous 'Musette' from the Anna Magdalena notebook is the basis of this enjoyable rock style piece. Your students and audience will love it!
This catchy original tune is written in the style of fiddle music found in the mountain regions of America using easy bow shuffle rhythm as the basis. Example solos are provided if you want to open up...
This popular reel from the British Isles is given a full-blown treatment for string orchestra that sounds much more difficult than it plays. It is exciting and adds a new dimension to your program. Th...
An outstanding DVD featuring world famous trumpeter and band leader Wynton Marsalis in a clinic with a student jazz combo and talking to other students about the essence of jazz performance. A perfect...
An historic event for Percussion Education combines the talents of two of the most well respected names in the field of Percussion, Vic Firth and Sandy Feldstein. Created with a flexible concept that...
The Yamaha Advantage method is the first band method to create a supplemental online community to enhance the learning experience of students. The web site is designed to help students improve their m...
A Natural Blues is composed in a traditional 12 bar blues form. The use of the A natural is a perfect way to reinforce this note when it is taught.
Flourish is a great concert opener or closer. This fanfare style piece is perfect for contests and festivals and excellent for teaching form.
Achievement is a chorale and march using the first 7 notes found in most beginning band methods.
Festival Chorale and March is design to reinforce newly learned eighth note rhythms and to give students a contest/festival style piece that will improve their musicianship.
Jupiter the famous Gustav Holst composition is arranged for flute or clarinet or alto saxophone soloist with band accompaniment or it can be played by band alone.
The Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 Theme is designed to give your best players an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. This solo is the same one that appears on page 36, book 1 of The Y...
Variations on a Theme by Grieg is designed to give your best players an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. Using the famous Morning theme from the popular Peer Gynt Suite as the basis...
Prestige is designed to introduce March style and form to the young band. Although it only contains the first 7 notes found in most band methods, Concert A to G, it provides a meaningful march experie...
Band-o-rama is a wonderful march designed for combined performance of beginning, intermediate and high school bands. The composition is available in two versions, one for high school band and one with...
Honor March is written to introduce the March form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that the students should learn to play.
Rock America opens with a full band lyrical statement of America the Beautiful leading to a restatement of America the Beautiful in a hip new style reminiscent of the great Ray Charles version. The ar...
Elite March is written to introduce the march form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that students should learn to play. The...
Fluer-de-lis March is written to introduce the march form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that the students should learn to...
Geology: The Study of Rock combines a rock bass line, percussion groove and a melody with a little twist into a fun to play crowd-pleasing composition.
THE MAGIC HOUR is a limited edition commemorative sheet music book containing transcriptions in Lead Sheet/Sketch Score style of every song on Wynton's Blue Note album of the same name. It also contai...
Transcribed Trumpet Solos with Piano Accompaniment Book This incredible book of timeless ballads contains complete note for note transcriptions and piano reduction of the combo arrangements from some...
Quatre chorals d'échauffement efficaces pour développer la musicalité et travailler la qualité du son, l'intonation, l'équilibre et le mélange avec un jeune groupe. Ces chorals sont basés sur des hymn...
Recorder Rag was composed to feature members of your elementary recorder class playing along with the band for recruitment purposes. The ragtime style was chosen for its fun appeal to both player and...
MASTER CLASS - TRUMPET, contains three student performances of classical trumpet literature by Tartini, Aruturian and Hindemith. Wynton works with each student on interpretation and performance object...
In this unique DVD, Wynton traces the history of the Trumpet from the early examples of a Conch Shell and Ram's Horn, to today's modern orchestral and jazz instruments. He explains how the constructio...
The Yamaha Advantage Book 1 - Innovative new approach - Stresses musicianship from day one - Builds ensemble musicians - Flexible starting systems with 3 ways to start Horn and Oboe - Musical Percussi...
- Sequential next step from Book 1 - Continued reinforcement of materials learned in Book 1 - More ensemble experiences with numerous chorales and full band arrangements - More advanced techniques pre...
This knock out arrangement takes the string orchestra to new swingin' heights. The popular 'When the Saints Go Marching In' is taken into the twenty-first Century with a New Orleans style of Jazz feel...
This clever arrangement is an audience participation game that will add sparkle to your Holiday Concert. Print the provided game card in your program and have the audience check how many times they he...
Teach students how to play with long bows and make lush long phrases on their instruments with this easy beautiful work. You can feature your four best players with the addition of the solo quartet. A...
Create excitement at the opening of your next concert with this wonderful work! A bold fanfare sets the stage with anticipation for what is to come. The brisk rhythmic allegro section is joyous and ex...
This dynamic piece in triple meter is reminiscent of swashbuckling heroes! The aggressive style main theme contrasted by a lyrical middle section makes this a perfect selection for contest or festival...
Looking for the perfect vehicle to teach musicianship, elegant phrasing, balance, blend and beauty of tone? Create a musical journey for all with this heartfelt composition in a lyrical style. Beautif...
A unique combination of popular lullabies and Christmas carols featuring 'Brahms' Lullaby,' 'Rock-a-bye Baby,' 'Away In a Manger,' and '0, Holy Night.' Unique and beautiful as it begins with the sound...
A true 'contest' style piece for the beginning band that uses limited note and rhythm resources, but is very creatively written. Your youngest students will feel like they are playing serious music, a...
The essence of improving the aural skills of your students is by teaching them to recognize melodic intervals as part of the structure of music. This contest/festival style piece is also designed to t...
Reflections combines chorale-style playing with contemporary harmonies. It is a perfect piece to reinforce the teaching of phrasing and overall musical performance.
Primus has the most limited range and technical demands of any piece in the series. It only uses 5 notes Concert Bb to F and is a great first performance piece.
Antiphony is a serious composition that will highlight your budding percussionists. This bold and harmonically progressive piece has an extensive percussion section that is placed antiphonally around...
Outback Rhapsody introduces the delightful music of Australia in a contest style piece. It is perfect to reinforce 6/8 time in 2. It combines 3 popular folk songs from Australia and would be great to...
Sentinel is designed to reinforce the key of Eb after the note concert Ab is learned. It contains contemporary harmonies, tuneful melodies and exciting percussion.
The Ash Grove is designed to give your best trumpet, trombone, baritone or tuba player an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. It should serve as the culmination of study for the solois...
Legends is designed to reinforce eighth-note patterns and 3/4 time. The composition is a perfect contest/festival style piece and as the title implies, is reminiscent of swashbuckling heroes.
Talons of Fire is an aggressive, energetic contest style composition that everyone will enjoy performing. It contains bold fanfares, strong percussion interjections and angular rhythms that will be th...
Impressions is a heartfelt composition in a lyrical style. Beautiful melodies are given numerous orchestrational and harmonic treatments to create a musical journey that will be pleasing to performers...
The Fifers is designed to give your best players an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. Originally composed for harpsichord by Jean-Francois Dandrieu, this lively piece is written in a...
Meet the Band is intended to be used as a recruitment piece at a recruitment concert. It introduces young students to all of the instruments and sections of the band. The narrator 'Sam the Snare Drum'...
Fanfare Acclamations is a contest style piece that is bold and energetic. As the title implies is begins with a bold maestoso fanfare with punctuating percussion that leads to the active main theme in...
Genesis is a contest style piece that can be used as the culmination of study at the end of The Yamaha Advantage or at the end of any band method book 1. This popular performance piece from the back o...
Equinox is a tour-de-force for the young band and can serve as the culmination of study at the end of The Yamaha Advantage Band Method book 2 or any band method book 2. It is a contest piece with driv...
Shaker Settings is a combination of two shaker songs Father James's Song and the famous Simple Gifts. This is a very playable and effective arrangement for contest use.
Snarendipity features solo snare drum with band. This piece can be performed by one snare drummer or with multiple snare drum soloists. The snare drum part includes contemporary sounds as well as many...
Name That Christmas Carol, which uses only 6 notes from concert Bb to G, is designed to be an audience participation game that will add some fun to your first Christmas concert.
Winter Holidays is unique in that it combines four favorite holiday songs of both Christmas and Hanukah. The songs are heard alone and together, at one point combining three of the melodies in a music...
Christmas Toyland is a clever new arrangement that combines the famous march from the Tchaikovsky Nutcracker with the Victor Herbert classic Toyland. It is perfect to reinforce triplets and 3/4 time....
Christmas Surprise is a perfect composition for your first Christmas Concert. It only uses the first 7 notes introduced in most beginning band methods; concert Bb to G plus the low A. This arrangement...
Christmas Gloria begins with a snare drum solo snares off which sets the tone for a bolero style arrangement reminiscent of the Little Drummer Boy but based on the all time favorite Pat-a-Pan. The arr...
Christmas Stomp is a perfect composition for a beginning band's Christmas Concert. It features three percussion soloists that play on different sounding buckets. The piece is written in a swing style,...
The Bells of Christmas, a medley of popular Christmas carols, incorporates the sounds of ringing bells and chimes as a unifying theme. The piece presents O Tanenbaum, Deck the Halls, Joy to the World...
Lullaby for Christmas is a unique combining of popular lullabies such as the Brahm' Lullaby and Hush-a-bye Baby with the favorite Christmas carols Away In a Manger and O, Holy Night. A beautiful and s...
Whispers is a lyrical composition that will be a perfect vehicle to teach musicianship, elegant phrasing, balance, blend and beauty of tone. Beautiful melodies are given numerous orchestrational and h...
It doesn't matter how old you are, or if you've ever played music before, just put on the CD and get ready to join the Rhythm Party!!! -Great play - along / sing - along music for people of all ages -...
Correlated with The Yamaha Advantage Book 1 - page 16.
Correlated with The Yamaha Advantage Book 1 - page 25.
The Yamaha Advantage is the perfect way to begin instrumental music instruction. The first few pages reinforce tone production with shape notes and gradually move to traditional music notation. The ed...
The Greatest Solo Songbook - 75 songs using only the first six notes learned in all band methods - Fully orchestrated CD included in each book - Excellent reinforcement during early study - Fun approa...