Supplemental Technique Exercises for Band
I’ve always gravitated towards the “technique” exercises in my students band method books, but they are always few and far between. To help solve this issue I create “SupTech”, which is a series of supplemental technique full band exercises that are purely designed to help the students grow confident in their notes, fingerings, and transitions between them. Often, by the time you get to the 6th note in their books the material is so difficult for the kids they barely can focus on putting all their notes, fingerings, and transitions together! Mad Music SupTech bridges that gap!
Work the skills they need to feel successful
It’s important to have pure technique exercises for your students so that they can focus on exactly what they need and get other distractions (dynamics, phrasing, etc.) out of the way.
To help in doing so, I created 6 pages for each instrument. Each page features 8 exercises, easy to hard, that only focus on one group of notes. The first page is single note exercises, the second page is the first 2 notes, the 3rd has the first three notes, and so on. This allows you and your students to focus on exactly what they need to work on at any given time, and do so in full group rehearsals!
