Product Overview
Authored by Steve Hommel First Semester Workbooks are a complete introductory program for beginning band, designed to prepare your students to begin study in the Arrangement Collection. Beginners will learn their first 6 notes and basic rhythms and articulations, in an innovative setting where failure is virtually impossible! In most Band Method books, students start out with a tiny whole note, accompanied by an even tinier fingering chart graphic: This seemingly simple picture, simultaneously introduces three separate concepts:1. Fingering Chart Interpretation 2. Rhythmic Notation 3. Pitch Placement on the Staff That’s like introducing Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication on the first day of math class! In the First Semester Workbook, these three concepts are introduced one at a time. Easy written exercises to reinforce each concept are presented, before moving on to the next concept.ote: