Wind Studies

Our Virtual Beginning Band "Book"

(Available in the Band Program Bundle)

Wind Studies is an innovative asset for a middle school band program.  Filling a lot of beginner book gaps and providing unlimited material for practice, this new program lets the director keep all students on task while giving that one-on-one instruction, which is the key to students getting a good start on a wind instrument.

Like all other programs that incorporate the RhythmBee method, Wind Studies ensures that every member of the beginning class is in the right place while the director tends to individual needs of each player.  Organized in 14 "pages," Wind Studies reinforces the skills taught on the corresponding page of a generic beginning band book.  For each new beginning band skill, there are twenty exercises to allow each student plenty of repetitions.  Some of the exercises are unison, and some are in ensemble form.  Some exercises are 4 measures, but most are 8 measures.

Wind Studies makes it possible for the beginning band to get plenty of "chop time" in every class period.  Many directors find it necessary for their students to alternate between playing and saying note names or counting to the automated instruction.  Without such a strategy, the students may play so much that they can damage young chops.

That is quite a change from the times when it was difficult to let them play enough in any band rehearsal, and especially in beginning band.