Instrumental Music Teacher's Survival: Ready-To-Use Guidelines, Lessons & Exercises for Teaching Beginning Band Instruments

by Randy Navarre

This comprehensive practical resource provides new and veteran instrumental music teachers and band directors everything they need to teach 12 beginning band instruments and lay the foundation for an effective instrumental music program in any school setting. Included are five illustrated, step-by-step lessons with music exercises for introducing students to each instrument, a trouble-shooting chart to help teachers find quick cures for problems encountered with that instrument, and a fingering chart showing the preferred and the chromatic fingerings for most notes. The Kit also provides suggestions for preparing for music lessons, sample practice schedules and report cards, and guidelines and music for planning and conducting the first band concert.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2001