FREE - The Everyone is Awesome Drill

This short exercise has everyone in the band working on a specific fundamental technique at once as shown below. Suitable for beginner, 2nd & 3rd year players.

Percussionists play paradiddles, saxes learn an alternate fingering, clarinets, play step-wise above the break, brass play lip slurs, everyone else plays octave slurs.

Score and parts here.

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Fourth Street March

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A great march for young bands, suitable for beginners. Simple and effective! Dogfight included!

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Good Luck, Babe!

by Chappell Roan

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This Grade 2 arrangement has an optional quads part - which makes it ready to go for pep band and marching band.

Also included are parts for guitar, bass guitar and drum set. .

FREE MUSIC

Eight Grade .5-1 band works featuring the letter L (you'll see).

Each is about a minute long. It's great sight-reading material for middle schoolers and is suitable for a beginning band concert.

Oh - and it's hyper-flexible. Each instrument has a grand staff of three parts: 1) melody, 2) accompaniment, and 3) bass line. Duets & trios!!

PDF and MP3's in this Google Drive folder.

COLORS! A suite of compositions commissioned by New Hampton Middle School (IA), Jenny Adam, director, and their themed concert "Colors".

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Pomp and Circumstance

Playable by beginners

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Grade 1

This is the one for young bands!! Every instrument sees three parts: melody, harmony and bass line. Fully flexible and interchangeable.

VICTORY

EPIC!!!

Grade 2 Marching/Concert Band

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Victory is from the minds of the trailer soundtrack sensation "Two Steps From Hell".

Commissioned for marching band but written for a seamless concert band adaptation.

JOY!

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Grade 2.5

Teach your students about Mahler while preparing for your winter concert!

The finale of Gustav Mahler's first symphony is woven together with "Joy to the World" in this uplifting arrangement - suitable as an opener or closer.

A version for band & strings is available.

Arise

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Grade 3

Arise is a concert march with elements of a modern fanfare. Students will have the opportunity to work on 6/8 time - although it begins in 4/4.

IOWA CORN SONG

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A delightful concert in march in 6/8 with optional lyrics.

SUPER DUPER FLEXIBLE- every instrument has a grand staff of three parts: 1) melody, 2) harmony, and 3) bass line. This means it can be played by any combination of instruments (duet, trio...even solo), YET sounds complete and full for concert band.