Printing options for Brian Balmages' "Foundations" series

About the Foundations Series

Brian Balmages' Foundations Series is a collection of technical exercises for concert band and string orchestra set to actual movie soundtracks that are specifically designed to create an engaging practice experience for students. There are currently four titles in the series:

• Mega Foundations with "Meg 2: The Trench" (Interactive only)
• Spooky Foundations (Interactive only)
• Festive Foundations (Interactive & Digital Sheet Music)
• Villainous Foundation (Interactive & Digital Sheet Music)

See also: Understanding Interactive Repertoire vs. Digital Sheet Music

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Printing Options for the Foundations Series

Interactive versions of all Foundations titles offer the ability to print individual instrument parts for individual exercises directly from MakeMusic Cloud's practice app with any paid subscription (no Print add-on needed).

• For instructions on printing individual parts from the Practice app, see Printing in MakeMusic Cloud FAQs

The Digital sheet music versions of both Spooky and Villainous Foundations offer PDF packets of instrument parts for the entire collection in one PDF, separated by instrument.

In addition, Villainous Foundations also offers PDF packets of full conductor scores for both band and orchestra in one PDF, separated by ensemble type.

We hope to be able to add PDF part and score packets for the remaining Foundations to our Digital Sheet Music Library soon, and we will update this article as that happens. Click "Follow" on this article to be notified via email of any updates made to this page.

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Printing Digital Sheet Music PDFs for Spooky & Villainous Foundations

 

1. Select Music Catalog from the left-hand navigation drawer.

This is available from any page within MakeMusic Cloud. To log in, visit home.makemusic.com

2. Type "foundations" in the search field and press ENTER.

This displays both titles from Brian Balmages' Foundations series and some unrelated titles. For information on the series, visit makemusic.com/foundations

3. Select Digital from the left sidebar.

While the "Interactive" versions of Foundations are also printable, we're choosing "Digital" in order to print full scores and parts for the entire collection at once.

4. Select your "Foundations" title.

We'll use Villainous Foundations for Concert Band in this example.

5. Select *Full Scores from the movement list.

A preview of the score appears. (Full scores are currently avaialble for Villainous Foundations only.)

6. Click the Open button.

This opens a printable PDF of the full score. This may take several moments, as this file contains full scores for the entire collection.

7. Once the full score loads, click the Print button.

This opens your web browser's print dialog box.

8. To print individual instrument parts, select an instrument from the dropdown menu.

As with the full score, this loads the selected instrument's parts for the collection.

9. Once the part loads, click the Print button again.

As before, this opens your browser's print dialog box. Repeat this process to print other instrument parts.