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Description
- Composer/Author: RUSH/SCOTT
- Instrumentation: EUPHONIUM
- Model # G-11296
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Euphonium
The Second Book in the HABITS Band Series
Habits of a Successful Intermediate Band Musician is a field-tested, vital, andmost important - musical collection of 172 sequenced exercises for the intermediate band student.
Features include:
- Melodic contouring to shape phrases and develop expression.
- A focus on range development and timing exercises with more rests.
- Teacher tips for each exercise.
- More work in Concert C, D-flat, and G.
- More sequenced diatonic solfege that begins on the first day of instruction.
- One-octave scale studies in twelve keys.
- Sequential rhythm charts embedded in the book. These same rhythms are then presented with pitches for a seamless transfer to the music students are performing.
- Slower pacing of scaffolded concepts.
- An emphasis on rhythm vocabulary, aural literacy, and the components of playing (the "three buckets").
- An introductory exercise for developing vibrato.
- Expanded whole tone scales.
- Left (L) and right (R) indicators for woodwinds, along with appropriate chromatic alternate fingering indicators.
- Rhythm charts in simultaneous coordinating lines to promote part independence.
- Guided questions to encourage student-centered instruction.
- Rhythm vocabulary that progresses through dotted quarter-eighth, sixteenth-note denominations, cut time, and 6/8 time.
- New supplemental exercises with an expanded rhythm curriculum.
- Technique and skill-building exercises embedded within the method, which help to prepare students for future Habits exercises.

