Bassoon Basics

• U.S. Army Field Band Bassoon Section
• Topics covered: Introduction, Assembling the Bassoon, Putting the Bassoon Away, How to Hold the Bassoon, Tone Production, Technique, Choosing and Adjusting Reeds, How to Ensure Your Bassoon is in Good Repair, Bassoon Method Books & Solos

Bassoon Digital Professor

• Videos by Terry B. Ewell, professor at Towson University and former President of the International Double Reed Society

Fox Resource Center

• Website includes instruction guides, information guides, fingering charts, etc.

Bassoon Master Classes

• London Symphony Orchestra Master Class, Joost Bosdijk
• Philadelphia Orchestra Master Class, Daniel Matsukawa 
• Gustavo Nunez, principal bassoon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bassoon Fundamentals

Recommended Listening

• Haydn, Divertimento no. 1 in B flat major; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Sol Schoenbach on bassoon.
• Trois Pieces Breves, Jacques Ibert; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Sol Schoenbach on bassoon.
• Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Sol Schoenbach on bassoon.
• Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Part 1/Part 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Sol Schoenbach on bassoon.

Improving Your Clarinet Section

• U.S. Army Field Band Clarinet Quartet
• Topics Covered: Introduction, Basic Clarinet Skills, Phrasing/Blending/Balance, Rhythmic Independence, Jazz Style/Matching Style, Mixed Meter Ensemble Playing, Imitation of Style/Independent Section Playing

London Symphony Orchestra Master Class Clarinet, Chris Richards

Recommended Listening

• Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 26, Weber; New York Philharmonic, Stanley Drucker on clarinet.
• Trois Pieces Breves, Jacques Ibert; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Anthony Gigliotti on clarinet.
• Haydn, Divertimento no. 1 in B flat major; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Anthony Gigliotti on clarinet.
• Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Anthony Gigliotti on clarinet.
• Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Part 1/Part 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Anthony Gigliotti on clarinet.

Recommended Listening

• Lyndon Baglin; Rule Brittania; Caprice & Variations
• Brian Bowman; Carnival of Venice; Fantasia di Concerto
• Steven Mead; Peter Grahm’s Concerto for Euphonium; Beautiful Colorado
• Nicholas Childs; Pantomime
• Trevor Groom; Harmonious Blacksmith; Home on the Range

Euphonium Performance Music Resources by Norlan Bewley

Flute Fundamentals

• The flute section of The U.S. Army Field Band
• The video covers the topics of embouchure, breathing, tone production, finger dexterity, articulation, advanced techniques, the practice routine, ensemble playing, instrument maintenance, and more. A history of the flute and performer bios are also included, and the members of the flute section perform solos, excerpts, and ensemble works throughout each chapter.
• Intermediate Fundamentals: Long Tones & Breathing, Basic Articulation, Finger Dexterity & Technique.
• Advanced Fundamentals: Double & Triple Tonguing, Vibrato Exercises, Dynamic Contrasts, Harmonic Fingerings.

London Symphony Orchestra Master Class, Flute & Piccolo, Gareth Davies

Recommended Listening

•  Trois Pieces Breves, Jacques Ibert; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, William Kincaid on flute.
• Haydn, Divertimento no. 1 in B flat major; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, William Kincaid on flute.
• Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, William Kincaid on flute.
• Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Part 1/Part 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, Robert Cole on flute.

Understanding the Oboe

• Oboe section of the U.S. Army Field Band
• Topics Covered: Introduction, History of the Oboe, Selection of an Oboe, The Oboe Reed, Pedagogy

London Symphony Masterclass

• Emmanuel Abbuhl, Oboe
• Christine Pendril, English Horn

Recommended Listening

• Handel: Concerto No. 3 in G Minor for Oboe & Strings, Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. Oboist, Marcel Tabuteau
• Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F KV 370 featuring Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Isaac Stern, violin; William Primrose, viola; Paul Tortelier, cello.
• Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Part 1/Part 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; John de Lancie, oboe.
• Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, John de Lancie, oboe.
• Haydn, Divertimento no. 1 in B flat major; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, John de Lancie, oboe.
•  Trois Pieces Breves, Jacques Ibert; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, John de Lancie, oboe.

Vic Firth Education Resource Center

• Drum Set
• Snare Drum (Including video of 40 Essential Rudiments)
• Concert Percussion & Keyboard
• Speed Note Reading
• Marching & World Percussion

Drummer World

• Features every major drum set artist of the 20th & 21st Century
• Videos, Audio, Drum Clinics
• *Director’s Choice for Best Resource on the Web for Drum set!

The Complete Percussionist

• U.S. Army Field Band Percussion Section
• -Snare: Drum Grip, Wrist Stroke, Accents, Rolls, Flams, Ruffs, Four Stroke Ruff
  -Accessories: Triangle, Tambourine, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbal, Suspended Cymbal, Bass Drum Cymbal Attachment
  -Keyboards: Basic Technique, Xylophone, Chimes, Vibraphone, Bells
  -Timpani: Getting Started, Set-up, Body Position, Grips, Mallet Position, Mallet Types, Basic Technique, Stroke, Dynamics, Rolls, Tuning, Intonation, Interval Recognition, Advanced Technique, Pitch Adjustment, Pedaling, Sticking, Dampening, Muffling, Mallet Selection

Master Classes

• Neil Percy, London Symphony Orchestra Principal Percussionist
• Nigel Thomas Part 1, Part 2, London Symphony Orchestra Principal Timpanist

Recommended Listening for Concert Percussion

• Nebojsa Zivkovic; Percussion Concerto No. 1, “Concerto of the Mad Queen” 
• Keiko Abe; Jorge Sarmientos Marimba Concerto I
• Ney Rosauro; Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble
• Nexus; Dotty Dimples; Fluffy Ruffles; Spanish Waltz
  
• So Percussion; Drumming by Steve Reich
• Evelyn Glennie; Rhythmic Caprice by Leigh Howard Stevens 
• PercaDu; Gyro by Tomer Yariv
• Edgar Varese; Ionisation

Innovative Percussion

• Media page offers “In the Lot” footage for sponsored DCI groups
• Resources page offers valuable articles for improving your skills

Percussive Arts Society

• Scholarship Opportunities
• Virginia Day of Percussion
• PASIC, Conventions and Festivals

Steve Weiss Music

• Your first stop for purchasing percussion items

Harvey Pittel presents The Saxophone Teachings of the Master,

• Introduction, Tone Imagination, Area of the Throat, Embouchure, Breathing Mechanisms, Tone Color, Subtone, Matching Overtones, Tonguing, Vibrato, Circular Breathing, Continuous Vibrato, The Musical Line, How to Practice

Soprano Sax

• Claude Delangle
• Mackey, Concerto for Soprano Sax. Mvt 1, Mvt 2, Mvt 3, Mvt 4, Mvt 5

Alto Sax Master Classes

• Tim McAlliser, Articulation, Vibrato
• Claude Delangle, Reed preparation & Placement,

Recommended Listening for Alto Sax Classical Style

• Claude Delangle; Henri Tomasi Saxophone Concerto 1st Movement, P. Maurice Tableaux de Provence I
• Arno Bornkamp; Aria, Eugene Bozza
• Otis Murphy; Bizet’s Carmen Fantasy, Tomasi’s Ballade
• Kenneth Tse; Claude Smith’s Fantasia for Alto Sax & Band
• Frederick Hemke 
• Eugene Rousseau; Lamentations (pour la Fin du Monde)
• Donald Sinta; Creston Concerto for Saxophone (Revelli, conductor), Debussy’s Syrinx (Revelli, conductor)

Recommended Listening for Tenor Sax Classical Style

• James Houlik; The Upward Stream by Peck, Mvt 1, Mvt 2
• Arno Bornkamp; Geert van Keulen’s Fingers, Part 1, Part 2

Recommended Listening for Bari Sax Classical Style

• Arno Bornkamp; Trio, by Francis Poulenc

Saxophone Quartet

• Mozart KV 421, Aurelia Sax Quartet
• Bach Fugue, Aurelia Sax Quartet
• Dona Nobis Pacem, Washington Sax Quartet

Trombone, A Player’s Guide

• A production by the United States Field Band, Topics Covered: Introduction, History of the Trombone, Tools of the Art, Assembly and Maintenance, Breathing and Buzzing Basics, The Warm-Up, Basic Articulation, Slide Technique, Tuning, Style and Versatility

London Symphony Orchestra Master Class

• Paul Milner, bass trombone video 1
• Paul Milner, bass trombone video 2
• Katy Jones, trombone
• Dudley Bright, trombone

Trombone Masterclass with Ralph Sauer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Trombone Slide Technique with Deborah Weisz
Proper Breathing Techniques with Deborah Weisz

Great Trombone Listening

• London Trombone Ensemble plays  Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, Arr. by Martin Wilson
• San Francisco Opera Low Brass Section performs Excerpts from Wagner’s Lohengrin
• Arthur Pryor (trombone virtuoso & solist with the Sousa Band) Annie Laurie

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra low brass section performs:

• Excerpts from Mahler Symphony No. 2
• Excerpts from Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries
• Excerpts from Bruckner Symphony No. 8
• Excerpts from Copland Symphony No. 3
• Excerpts from Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
• Excerpts from Berlioz Hungarian March
• Excerpts from Brahms Symphony No. 1
• Excerpts from Brahms Symphony No. 4
• Excerpts from Brahms Symphony No. 2
• Excerpts from Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin
• Excerpts from Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis

Southeast Trombone Symposium Professor’s Choir performs:

• Shostakovich Prelude
• Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music, by Richard Wagner
• There Will Be Rest, Ticheli
• Bernstein’s Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
• Fanfare from “La Peri” & 6.35, Verhelst

Columbus State University Trombone Choir performs:

• Salvation is Created, Chesnokov
• Excerpts from o Magnum Mysterium, Lauridsen

Hip-Bone Music Online Brass Instruction from some of today’s top players

A Trumpeter’s Resource

• The United States Army Field Band Trumpet Section
• Topics Covered: Air, Embouchure, How to Start a Beginner, Articulation, Multiple Tonguing, Flexibility, Range and Endurance, Equipment, Warm-Up, Warm-Down, Daily Routine, How to Practice, Developing Sound and Style, Taking Auditions

Master Classes

• London Symphony Orchestra Master Class; Phil Cobb & Nigel Gomm
• Trumpet Fundamentals with David Bilger; Principal trumpet with Philadelphia Orchestra

Recommended Listening

• Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brass Chorale; New York Philharmonic
• Maurice Andre Hummel Trumpet Concerto
• Franz von Suppe’s Overture: Poet and Peasant; Northwestern University Trumpet Ensemble
• Verde’s Overture to Nabucco; Juilliard School Trumpet Ensemble
• Festive Overture; Juilliard School Trumpet Ensemble

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra low brass section performs:

• Excerpts from Mahler Symphony No. 2
• Excerpts from Bruckner Symphony No. 8
• Excerpts from Copland Symphony No. 3
• Excerpts from Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
• Excerpts from Berlioz Hungarian March
• Excerpts from Brahms Symphony No. 2
• Excerpts from Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin
• Excerpts from Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis

Master Classes

• London Symphony Orchestra Master Class, Patrick Harrild Part 1, Part 2
• Arnold Jacobs “Almost Live”  Legendary brass player and former principal player with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Recommended Listening

• Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams; Chicago Symphonic Band, Arnold Jacobs on tuba.
• Les Tubadours, Tuba Quartet – Old Legend