GIA Publications

The Instrumental Series

Authors: Richard F. Grunow, Edwin E. Gordon, Christopher D. Azzara
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Trumpet

A revision of this beginning band series makes Jump Right In easier to use and more musical than ever before!

Includes free, high-quality MP3 downloads of folk songs that:

• Comprise many styles, tonalities, and meters
• Span many cultures and many centuries
• Are ideal for listening and playing along

Features performances by some of the worlds greatest performers:

• Artist faculty members from Eastman School of Music
• Members of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
• Rhythm and Brass

Helps develop musicianship beyond instrumental classroom with:

• Progress from sound to sight in logical, common sense sequence
• Opportunities for improvisation from early stages of instruction
• Tools to help students learn to read and write with better comprehension
• Arrangements of familiar songs in each book

Sequential and proven materials are:

• Designed specifically to attend to individual differences
• Based on current experimental and practical research
• Based on the music learning theories of Edwin E. Gordon
• Relevant to National Standards and include suggestions for measurement and evaluation

Extensive Teacher's Guide:

• Contains lesson plans
• Includes teaching procedures
• May be used independently or in conjunction with Jump Right In: The Music Curriculum and Developing Musicianship through Improvisation