PracticeFirst™, powered by MatchMySound™, is an easy and affordable way to allow your students to practice anytime, anywhere, on any device (including mobile!). PracticeFirst provides students with instantaneous & intuitive feedback, allowing them to gain meaningful insights into the quality of their practice and accelerate their achievement. During the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, music educators have widely adopted PracticeFirst in the classroom.
With the addition of Excelcia Music Publishing's band, orchestra, choral and jazz ensemble works to PracticeFirst's content library, subscribers have access to even more resources and music to assist with virtual learning. Excelcia Music Publishing’s catalog is filled with new flexible and full-version pieces from outstanding and dedicated composers at all grade levels, and PracticeFirst provides an invaluable tool to keep students engaged, practicing and learning our fantastic pieces. Together, Excelcia Music Publishing and PracticeFirst are enhancing curricula and inspiring students.
Robust Feedback
PracticeFirst is an industry leader in providing detailed and nuanced student performancefeedback, assessing accuracy in:
- Rhythm
- Pitch
- Intonation
- Duration
Adjust assessment rigor from "easy to "hard", and set score threshold for submission
- Tailored for students of all levels
- Comes with exercises and pieces, and also allows you to create your own
- Create exercises with multiple parts from multipart scores
- Assesses rhythmic and pitch accuracy
- Assignment types include memorization and sight reading modes
- Grading scale can be adjusted from easy to hard
- Works for polyphonic instruments like piano and guitar
- Teachers can now let students choose their instrument themselves when practicing
- Includes a built-in tuner for instruments that need to be tuned before playing
- “Click track” option in place of the metronome for exercises with floating tempo
- A great practice and assessment tool, perfect for choral students
- Fully integrated with the MusicFirst Classroom's gradebook, scheduling, portfolio-building and other features. - Use our content, or upload your own
Excelcia Music Publishing Works in PracticeFirst
Concert Band
| Flexcel Band Series | Composer/arr. | cat. no. | Grade |
| Capstone | Tyler Arcari | FCB2001 | 2 |
| Shining Moments | Larry Clark | FCB2002 | 1.5 |
| Hidden Wonders | Sean O'Loughlin | FCB2003 | 2 |
| The Great Clipper Race | Matthew R. Putnam | FCB2004 | 3 |
| Byzantine Dances | Carol Brittin Chambers | FCB2005 | 2 |
| All-Purpose Performance Collection | arr. Larry Clark | FCB2009 | 2-3 |
| Flexcel Chorale Collection | arr. Ed Kiefer | FCB2010 | 2-3 |
| Exhale | Sean O'Laughlin | FCB2101 | 3.5 |
| Rhythmania! | Carol Brittin Chambers | FCB2102 | 1.5 |
| Bardic Air and Reel | Larry Clark | FCB2103 | 2.5 |
| Gothic | Tyler Arcari | FCB2104 | 1.5 |
| Zombie Attack! | Jason Taurins | FCB2105 | 1.5 |
| Concert Band | Composer/arr. | cat. no. | Grade |
| Anthem of Triumph | Tyler Arcari | PCB1901 | .5 |
| Intuition March | Larry Clark | PCB1902 | .5 |
| First Holiday Fanfare | Matthew R. Putnam | PCB1903 | .5 |
| Thunderbound | Sean O'Loughlin | PCB1904 | .5 |
| Darkwing | Peter Terry | PCB1905 | .5 |
| Heroic Entrance | David Riggs | PCB1906 | .5 |
| Blades of Steel | Larry Clark | DCB1902 | 1 |
| Passacaglia Variants | Sean O'Loughlin | DCB1903 | 1 |
| Cadets in Step! | Matthew R. Putnam | DCB1904 | 1 |
| Golden Dawn | Peter Terry | DCB1905 | 1 |
| Champion Fanfare | David Samuel | DCB1906 | 1 |
| Tempt the Machine | Tyler Arcari | HCB1901 | 1.5 |
| Shining Moments | Larry Clark | HCB1902 | 1.5 |
| Zig Zag | Sean O'Loughlin | HCB1903 | 1.5 |
| Clear Resolve | John M. Pasternak | HCB1904 | 1.5 |
| Morning Star | Chris Ferguson | HCB1905 | 1.5 |
| Sky Bound | Jon Bubbett | HCB1906 | 1.5 |
| Tower of Inspiration | Robert Thurston | HCB1907 | 1.5 |
| All for One, One for All | Carol Brittin Chambers | HCB1908 | 1.5 |
| Against the Clock | Jay Coles | HCB1909 | 1.5 |
| In Autumn's Moonlight | David Samuel | HCB1911 | 1.5 |
| Rhythmania! | Carol Brittin Chambers | HCB2001 | 1.5 |
| Gothic | Tyler Arcari | HCB2006 | 1.5 |
| Abundant Bliss | Matthew R. Putnam | ICB1905 | 2 |
| Bardic Air and Reel | Larry Clark | ICB2008 | 2.5 |
| Byzantine Dances | Carol Brittin Chambers | ICB1911 | 2 |
| Canterbury Sketches | Jason Taurins | ICB1915 | 2 |
| Capstone | Tyler Arcari | ICB1907 | 2 |
| Distant Memories | John M. Pasternak | ICB1914 | 2 |
| Mission Control | Tyler Arcari | ICB1901 | 2 |
| Strong Of Heart | Sean O'Loughlin | RCB1903 | 3 |
| Ornaments! | Jon Bubbett | RCB1908 | 3.5 |
| Warwick Castle | Gene Milford | RCB1909 | 3 |
| Distant Thunder | Steve Parsons | RCB1911 | 3 |
| On the Wings of Angels | Carl Strommen | RCB1913 | 3.5 |
| Purple Martin | Yukiko Nishimura | RCB1915 | 3 |
| Exhale | Sean O'Loughlin | RCB2003 | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Wonder | Bruce W. Tippette | RCB2013 | 3.5 |
| Danza la Habana | Ruth Brittin | RCB2014 | 3.5 |
| Victorious | Valerie Laney-Rowe | RCB2015 | 3 |
| Mischief | Robert Thurston | MCB1906 | 4 |
| Heart of America | Arthur Pryor | MCB2001 | 4.5 |
| Atlantic Rhapsody | Robert Thurston | MCB2002 | 6 |
| Smiling After the Rain | Yukiko Nishimura | MCB2003 | 4 |
| Sol Picante | Chris Thompson | MCB2004 | 5 |
| Radiant | Tyler Arcari | MCB2005 | 5 |
| Ponderosa | Carl Strommen | MCB2006 | 4 |
Choir
| Choral | Composer | Voicing | cat no. |
| Fall into Winter | Marshall Webb | SSA | SSA1902 |
| Sunayama | Shinpei Nakayama | SSA | SSA1901 |
| Carol of the Brown King | Brandon Martell | SAB | SAB2003 |
| A Celtic Blessing | Patti Drennan | SSAB | SSAB1901 |
| Deck the Hall | Traditional | SAB | SAB1902 |
| How Do I Love Thee? | Jamey Ray | SAB | SAB1904 |
| Our Friendship | arr. Larry Clark | SAB | SAB1901 |
| Simple Gifts | arr. Jay Rouse | SAB | SAB1903 |
| Amazing Grace | arr. Jamey Ray | SATB | SATB2005 |
| An April Morning | Bruce W. Tippette | SATB | SATB1906 |
| Freedom, Come for Me | Patti Drennan | SATB | SATB1904 |
| An Irish Blessing | Yani Araujo | SATB | SATB1905 |
| It'll Take a Miracle | Patti Drennan | SATB | SATB2006 |
| Joy to the World | arr. Jamey Ray | SATB | VOC1901 |
| Mary, Did You Know? | arr. Jamey Ray | SATB | VOC1902 |
| O Come, O Come Emmanuel | arr. Jamey Ray | SATB | SATB1901 |
| The Vagabond | R. Vaughan Williams/Lewis | TBB | TBB1901 |
| Mama Don't 'Low | arr. John Maclane Schirard | TTB | TTB1902 |
String Orchestra
| String Orchestra | Composer/arr. | cat. no. | Grade |
| Anthem of Triumph | Tyler Arcari | PSO1901 | .5 |
| Subatomic | Larry Clark | PSO1902 | .5 |
| Darkwing | Peter Terry | DSO1901 | 1 |
| Moonlit Skies | Sean O'Loughlin | DSO1902 | 1.5 |
| Angels in the Halls | Matthew R. Putnam | DSO1903 | 1 |
| Golden Dawn | Peter Terry | HSO1901 | 1.5 |
| Fascination | Larry Clark | HSO1902 | 1.5 |
| Passacaglia Variants | Sean O'Loughlin | HSO1903 | 1.5 |
| Uncharted Waters | Matthew R. Putnam | HSO1904 | 1.5 |
| A Torch Was Brought | Tyler Arcari | HSO1905 | 1.5 |
| Curse of Tortuga | Tyler Arcari | ISO1901 | 2.5 |
| Ai Hai Yo | Traditional, arr. Tyler Arcari | ISO1902 | 2 |
| Escalation | Sean O'Loughlin | ISO1904 | 2 |
| Danza de mi Corazón | Steven L. Rosenhaus | ISO1906 | 2.5 |
| L'automne | Ruth Elaine Schram | ISO1908 | 2 |
| Evening Dusk | Yukiko Nishimura | ISO1910 | 2 |
| The Knight Errant | Alan Lee Silva | ISO1911 | 2 |
| Mystic Lair | Sean O'Loughlin | RSO1901 | 3.5 |
| Sweet New Moon | Yukiko Nishimura | RSO1903 | 3 |
| Colors of Home | Alan Lee Silva | RSO1904 | 3 |