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Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician

By Scott Rush, Jeff Scott, Emily Wilkinson, Rich Moon, & Kevin Boyle

Habits Middle School Books

For Middle School and Intermediate Level band musicians

 

Methods for all major band instruments, Mallets, and percussionists

 

Available as a physical book or online digital version
Online digital version available for $6.95

 

Available on both MusicFirst and MakeMusic Cloud online teaching platforms

 

Habits of a Successful Middle School Band Musician is a field-tested, vital, and—most importantly—musical collection of more than 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals.

Perfect for use by an entire band or solo player for years two, three, and beyond, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, chorales, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary exercises, and much more. In one place, this series presents everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature.

Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician:

  • Provides material for use during fundamentals time that promotes a comprehensive approach to developing skills necessary to fill the musical toolbox.
  • Presents effective exercises for clarinets going over the break, trombones in second and fifth position, flutes going from C to D, percussion sticking, trombone F- attachment tips, and L and R indicators for clarinet.
  • Includes a sequential format that leads to the mastery of reading rhythms and ultimately, to musical sight-reading.
  • Provides chorales for the development of tone quality, ensemble sonority, and musicianship.
  • Combines pedagogy, technique building, fundamentals development, sight-reading and musicianship into one book under one cover.

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Testimonials

This book has so many comprehensive techniques for both left and right hand, and it focuses on areas that most young string players struggle with. This book is a home run and a must-buy!

Kari Zamora

Head Director Faubrion Middle School Orchestra

McKinney, Texas

Did You Know...

Each student method book in the HABITS series is available digitally for access on any device of choice!

Even More!

Habits of a Successful Beginner Band Musician comes with a FREE digital access code printed on the inside cover!

All other Habits student method books are available digitally for $6.95 (a $3 saving compared to the physical edition).

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