Paul Harris's Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner players and their teachers.

This edition of Clarinet Basics Pupil's book offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, pull-out fingering chart and of course all of the great tunes featured in the original Clarinet Basics. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, it contains:

warm ups and fun original exercises
invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument
helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes
pull-out fingering chart to pin on your wall
Online audio featuring piano and clarinet accompaniments to play along with.

Contents

Stage 1: Going Down! Further Down!: Going Up! Top Floor!: Saucer

Rainbow

Stage 2: March Of The Clarinet Teachers

Dinner Time Dance

Circus Polka

Mango Tango

Merrily We Roll Over On The Lotter

Stage 3: Fast-Food Rag

The Bells

Smooth Mover

Sword Dance (Arbeau)

The Sun Shines Hot

Stage 4: Cartoon Tune! Sweet And Sour Chicken

Ode To Joy (Beethoven)

Good King Wenceslas

Stage 5: Spooks

Minty March

Bubblegum

Oteng 'Teng'

When The Saints Go Marching In

Stage 6: Swaying In The Breeze

Skip To M'lou

The Birch Tree

Renaissance Dance (Susato)

Stage 7: Dance Of The Broken Clarinet Reeds

Licorice Waltz

Mozart: Twinkle, Twinkle, Satellite Dish

Jasmine Flowers

Pop Goes The Weasel

Stage 8: Babbling Brook

Haunted House

Gibbons: The Woods So Wilde

Judge's Dance

Chiapenecas

Stage 9: Steam Train

March Of The Guinea Pigs

Daisy, Daisy

Swanee River

Stage 10: Funky Footsteps

Sonata In F

Camptown Races (Foster)

Happy Birthday

Stage 11: Rock Solid

The Floral Dance

Fight The God Fight

Quelle Est Cette Odeur Agreeable

Stage 12: Dinosaur Park

Things That Go Bump In The Night

Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Minuet (Bach) Stage 13: Monday Morning

Friday Night!

Aura Lee

Frankie And Johnny

Stage 14: Suspense Movie

Sarabande

Down Memory Lane

Winter

Stage 15: Kangaroo Waltz

Tiger Tango

A Nordic Tale

Mountain Stream

March

Stage 16: Take A Break

Break Up

Break Down

Break Even

Yankee Doodle

Sweet Betsy From Pike

Stage 17: Coffee Beans

Round Dance

Theme From Eastenders

Waltz (Britten)

Stage 18: Tongue Tango

Rush Hour

Scarborough Fair

Stage 19: Happy Music

King Richard's Pavane

TV Movie

The English National Anthem

Twilight

Stage 20: The Can-Can (Offenbach)

Canon Can-Can

Theme From The Archers (Wood)

Stage 21: Hit The Roof!

Amsterdam

Affair In Manhattan

Greensleeves

Be Flat Cha-Cha-Cha

Dark Bluesy

Bilk: Stranger On The Shore