Cat No. JM65566
Price £7.50
Arranger: Peter Lawrance
Category: SOLOS - ANY B♭. Inst.

Learn your scales with the help of 53 well know tunes - suitable for ANY Treble Clef Brass Band instrument.

Each page in the first part of this book starts with a scale and its arpeggio. The rest of the page is full of tunes that use that scale and arpeggio.
As you play the tunes, you will find out why learning scales and arpeggios can help to make you a better player. If you have’nt guessed already, this is because most tunes are made up of little more than parts of scales and arpeggios. Some of these have been marked with an * Try and spot the others.

The Scales :

C Major one octave
A Minor one octave
Bb Major one octave
D Major one octave
D Minor one octave
Eb Major one octave
E Major one octave
A Major a twelfth
C Minor one octave
E Minor one octave
Chromatic one octave
WholeTone one octave

The FACTS !
It is guaranteed, written in stone, as certain as night follows day, that you will be asked to play scales in your exam. The examiner wont forget. wont be kind and just let you off, wont fall asleep, wont take a bribe, wont have a cup of tea instead or take pity on you if your valves miraculously stick or the bell falls off — so learn your scales.

The BENEFITS :

You may be learning scales just because you are going to take an exam, Fair enough but at the same time your tone and tuning will improve.

Your sight-reading skills will improve as you learn to spot bits of scales and arpeggios in the pieces that you play and to recognise key signatures.

You will develop a really good finger technique. You won’t worry about using your 2nd. and 3rd. fingers when necessary. And let’s not forget the exam, because if you know your scales really well — You will definitely get a much better mark than if you don’t. You will enter the exam much more confidently — you don’t want to be dreading the moment when you are asked to perform A Major.