Beginning Band Warmups

These beginning band warmups correlate to the "Habits of a Successful Beginner Band Musician". Each level corresponds to 20 lines of the book and the level of concert music on this website.  Each warmup has a small fill-in-the-finger chart, long tones on every learned pitch, interval, lip slur, and scale style exercises. There are no scores for these warmups. You can view the files in Google Drive below, to download, hit the "download" button, and you'll be redirected to the itch.io site.

There are 8 total warmups and 2 reviews in this set. Once set #7 is accomplished, your students are ready to use the "Advanced Daily Warm-up" featured on page 41 of the Habits of a Successful Beginner Band method book OR begin the Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician book.

The Review sets are used for returning to the school year. #8 reviews the concepts in 1-3 and #9 reviews the concepts in 4-5, allowing you to consolidate and bulk review these ideas at the beginning of the year.

Using these warmups

• These warmups do not replace fundamental teaching; rhythmic literacy, fundamental tone production, etc. are taught separately from these note and long tone concepts. 

• Each warmup includes a "new note(s)" portion at the top where students must write the note letter name(s) and fill in the corresponding finger chart(s).

• The ① line of each warmup is whole notes of every pitch students have learned. Take time having students showing the correct fingers and naming the pitch names separate from playing this line.

• Following lines provide long tone, lip slur, and scale exercises.