Contains a slide-position chart, brief text and short basic exercises regarding matching tones, whole note warm-ups, basic tonguing, air support, lip slurs, major scales, triads, range building, ear training, introduction to improvisation. Designed to introduce basic concepts with an exciting background recordings and visuals to help maintain interest in practicing technical exercises that can be rather tedious in isolation. The recordings provide professional demonstrations of basic concepts and also give the student a sense of playing with a variety of accompaniments such as a symphony orchestra, jazz ensemble, rock band, rhythm section and more. Davis and Feder use helpful visual analogies to help the students understand important concepts. -pc