WINDY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL

WOLF PACK
BANDS

WARMUP BOOK
TENOR SAX
Mr. Michael Uhrich
Director of Bands
3575 Hancock Rd
Clermont, FL 34711-7146
(352) 394-2123

Table of Contents
Scales
Major
Chromatic
Whole Tone
All-State Requirements
Long Tones & Intervals
Contest Band Warm-ups
1-2-3
Concert F Descending
Tuning Intervals
Harmony Training
On Field Warm-Up
Long Tones
Dynamic Exercises

pg. 4-5
Pg. 6
Pg. 6
Pg. 7
Pg. 8
Pg. 8
pg. 8-1 1
Pg. 12

Warm-Up & Flexibility

Wann-Up 1A-2C
Flexibilities & Riffs
Technical Exercises 1-8
Intervals in B Flat
Multiple Tonguing Exercises
SLHS Warm-Ups

pg. 14-17
pg. 18-19
pg. 20-23
Pg. 23
Pg. 24
pg. 25-27

Chorales
Chorale 1-4
All Through the Night
Pavane
Morning Star
Chester
Guiding Hand
0 Head, Bruised and Wounded
O'er the Grand River
Warm-up Chorale
America
Air
Three Warm-Up Chorales for Band

Pg. 30
pg. 31
pg- 31
pg. 31
Pg. 32
Pg. 32
Pg. 33
Pg. 33
Pg. 33
Pg. 34
Pg. 34
pg. 35-36

References
Circle of 4ths & 5ths
Sight Reading
Articulation Patterns
Articulation Dill
Fingering Chart

Scales

Scales

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Chromatic Scale

Part of the reward of doing something is losing yourself in the dance.

- Phil Jackson

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Long Tones & Intervals

Contest Band Warm-Ups

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Concert F Descending

Tuning Interval

Interval Tuning 2

Interval Tuning 3

Harmony Training
Tomoki Ubata

On Field Warm-up (Blue Devil)

Long Tones

An; Danny Orrantia

Long Tone 1A

Long Tone 1B

Long Tone 1C

Long Tone 2
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Long Tone 2B
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A goal without a deadline is just a wish.

- Jim Irish

Tenor Saxophone

Dynamic Exercises

Warm-up & Flexibility

Warm-Up 1A

Warm-Up 1B

Warm-Up 1C

Warm-Up 1D

Warm-Up 2A

Warn-Up 2B

Warm-Up 2C

The pathway to success is not always straight and smooth.

- Joseph Alsobroolc

Flexibilities and Riffs

Ellis/Greenwood

Technical Exercise # 1

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Concert F

Technical Exercise #2

Techincal Exercise #3

Technical Exercise #4

An expanded mind never goes back to its original size.

- Anonymous

Technical Exercise #5

Technical Exercise #6

Technical Exercise 7

Technical Exercise 8

Intervals B Flat

We are all bust.. .we all have lives.. .but in a successful organizations, everyone makes
sacrifices.

Tenor Saxophone

Multiple Tonguing Exercises

S L H S WARM-UPS

S L H S WARM-UPS

S L H S WARM-UPS

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Chorales

Chorale 2 .

Chorale 3

Chorale 4

Quincy Hilliard

All through the Night

Pavane

Morning Star
Paul Lavender