Product Description
EDUCATIONAL. The '100 Easy Tunes series is an outstanding resource for primary/elementary school instrumentalists. It promotes easy memorisation, music notation reading, melodic phrasing, and breathing techniques, ensuring a seamless learning experience. The books are designed for effortless student-teacher play-along sessions. Arranged for all instruments to play in unison, the series simplifies ensemble playing. It encompasses a variety of tunes, ranging from simple to complex. '100 Easy Tunes' and '10 Easy Duets' are also advantageous for technical studies and serve as supplementary books for tutors, proving to be a valuable tool for anyone in the primary/elementary school age group looking to improve their melodic playing skills.
The '100 Easy Tunes' series offers a rich compilation of practical melodies and duets, each set in their respective clefs and key signatures. The selection is a treasure trove of diverse tunes, including familiar ones like 'Happy Birthday,' 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,' and an Australian First-Nation song. Its exceptional adaptability to any instrument makes these well-known melodies a crucial resource for musicians, enabling immediate use in practice and sparking enthusiasm for the wide variety of tunes available for learning.
Each page of the '100 Easy Tunes' collection provides a wealth of advice for students and teachers, featuring teaching points, a chart of note values, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, simple technical exercises, and an alphabetically arranged tune index. The series is endorsed and strongly recommended by professional trumpet player Keith Walker, who vouches for its reliability and practicality. His endorsement, coupled with the series' simplicity and adaptability, has made it a preferred choice among primary/elementary school instrumentalists and educators, instilling confidence in its quality and effectiveness.
A dedicated book is available for each instrument, making it an essential addition to school resources. In addition to the physical books, the '100 Easy Tunes' series is also available as digital resources, allowing for easy access and use in the modern learning environment.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.