Peter Wastall’s award-winning series of tutor books for woodwind and brass instruments, now available in revised and refreshed editions to instruct and inspire the next generation of musicians, guiding them from beginner level to Grade 3 standard.

Divided into units that provide clear explanations of each new stage of learning, alongside plentiful exercises and graded concert pieces, the Learn As You Play method is simple to understand and easy to use.

Packaged for the first time with newly-recorded online audio of demonstration and backing tracks, this book also affords access to downloadable piano accompaniments.

The course, which is divided into 24 units, places the maximum emphasis on the early development of musicianship. From the beginning it introduces the student to a wide range of music, including works by leading contemporary composers. Each unit contains the following teaching programme:

1. New material is presented in clear progressive steps.
2. Short, concise exercises enable new skills to be quickly developed.
3. Instrumental solos by distinguished composers stimulate ande develop practice repertoire.
4. Progressive technical studies gradually bring the student into contact with specific instrumental technique.
5. Instrumental duets (alternate units) provide experience in ensemble playing. Keyboard accompaniments to the duets can be added in early units.

Progress is measured at eight-unit intervals by the introduction of Concert Pieces which utilise all previously learned material.

Content:
A Hymn to Nature (Szelenyi)
A Hymn to Saint Cecilia (Wastall)
A Little Piece (Diabelli)
A Little Piece (Schumann)
A Melody in Phrygian mode (Bartok)
A Syncopated Duet (Garnier)
Air (Gretry)
Allemande
Andante (Diabelli)
Andante (Mozart)
Aria (Handel)
Aria (Telemann)
Aylesford's Piece (Handel)
Branle de Champagne (Gervaise)
Cantilena (Gabrielsky)
Chanson de Nuit
Chorale (Bach)
Chorale Melody
Chorus (Gluck)
Corumba (Wastall)
Cotillon (Chedeville)
Cradle Song (Brahms)
Duetto (Devienne)
Duetto (Garnier)
Duo (Bortniansky)
Duo (Garnier)
Duo in A Minor (Chedeville)
Ecossaise (Diabelli)
  - Ein' Feste Burg (Luther)
  - Ellacombe
  - Etude (Diabelli)
  - Fanfare (Chedeville)
  - Ffigysbren
  - German Dance (Beethoven)
  - Hail to the Lord's Anointed (Cruger)
  - Integer Vitae (Flemming)
  - Let's Beguine (Wastall)
  - Lullaby (Schumann)
  - March (Hyde)
  - Marmotte (Beethoven)
  - Melody (Beethoven)
  - Mexican Madness (Wastall)
  - Minuet (Mozart)
  - Minuetto (Haydn)
  - Minuetto (Hook)
  - Minuetto (Mozart)
  - October (Cole)
  - Piece No. 1 (Huszar)
  - Rigaudon (Purcell)
  - Saint Margarita's Lullaby
  - Serenade (Diabelli)
  - Soldier's March (Schumann)
  - Soliloquy (Hyde)
  - Solstice (Cole)
  - Study No. 1 (Gariboldi)
  - Study No. 2 (Brod)
  - Study No. 3 (Gaiboldi)
  - Study No. 4 (Brod)
  - Swim, Swan, Swim! (Hyde)
  - Tambourin (Chedeville)
  - The Emperor of Germany's March (Clarke)
  - Tower Hill (Farnaby)
  - Variation on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'
  - Waltz (Brahms)
  - Waltz (Schubert)