Rangesongs

Rangesongs by David Vining is appropriate for musicians at all levels. Rangesongs develops your high and low ranges by using target notes in a musical context to encourage you to move your air properly. For the high range, Rangesongs offers fifty songs designed to improve your range and endurance systematically by using two strategies: the phrases within each song are specifically composed to build melodically to a designated target note, providing a compelling musical incentive to support the tone with the proper air speed; and the songs proceed chromatically to reach a written high E for gradual improvement. For the low range, Rangesongs offers twenty songs to extend the range downward in the same fashion to a written low F, plus five additional songs for pedal tones. “Rangesongs is a very well written and organized addition to books attacking basic range development. The great variety in articulation and styles keeps interest as it moves through a variety of keys. Although the range