Concert Band

This is an illustrated, highly detailed, set of six major scales for every instrument in a concert band. Each note of every major scale has a clear finger chart with the most common fingerings of every note, some with two octaves. These six major scales are so valuable for your band students to learn, because they can develop a visual understanding of scales and key signatures, which of course makes reading and performing music that much more intuitive for your students!

I use these with my middle school concert bands, and it is so valuable to refer back to these whenever I want them to master a key signature or scale. They never have to ask me for fingerings, because every single note is illustrated for every single instrument! These scales are mostly one octave, but the second octave has been included for many scales when the range of the instrument allows.

Included in this resource:

30 pages of major scales for every concert band instrument: flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium, tuba and mallet percussion. Six common major scales: Concert Ab, Eb, Bb, F, C, and G Major.

In this resource, you will find 60 different rhythm reading exercises in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 time signatures. These are perfect for warm-ups, or rhythm reinforcement to practice specific rhythmic ideas in concert band, orchestra or choir. These rhythms are progressive, so they build off of one another and are more complex as they go. These exercises are perfect to keep in students’ binders/music folders so you can refer back to them as warm-ups or practices.

They have everything from whole notes and half notes to tied and dotted notes, or eighth and sixteenth notes. These rhythms work best in a middle school band, orchestra or choir class. I have them in my middle school students’ binders, and we refer back to them when we need to practice 4/4 time rhythms.