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Mike Perez
Mastering the Young Band
Essential Foundations
Essential Foundations are warm-ups and technique exercises designed for beginning and intermediate band students (literature grades 1-2). This collection of exercises has been time tested and used by dozens of bands for over 10 years and is intended to be used in conjunction with your favorite band method book.
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Essential Foundations Educator Videos
The First Five Notes​
The First Notes Set 2​
The First Warm-up (1 and 2)
​Chromatic Basics (1-4)​
Long Tones​
Chromatic Warm-ups
Slur Warm-ups (1 and 2)
​Articulations
Concert Bb, F, Eb Exercises
Mini-Scales
Major Scales
Chromatic Scales
Scale and Technique Exercises
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