First Praise

• No Bell Changes: No Bell Changes
• Author/Composer/Arranger: Bill Ingram
• Use: Sacred, Secular
• Octaves Used - Select One: 2 Octaves, 3 Octaves, 5 Octaves
• Level: Level 1
• Topic: General
• Use Caution with Techniques and/or Tempo: Caution

First Praise was written to be a teaching piece that would be suitable to play in a worship service or concert.  The first 16 measures are full and simple with no articulations. Using the optional Fine, these excerpted measures would work very well as a first piece for a beginning handchime or handbell group. The theme is then developed with several articulations placed in such a way as to make teaching them very easy.  At the same time, there is great opportunity to work on musicality with the group.