All twelve major scales broken into two tetrachords with each pitch labelled. Allows students to hear the W-W-H pattern in each tetrachord, and to use a fingering/position chart to check for pitch accuracy. Reference track at 120 bpm included.
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Happy Birthday!
Offering several options to suit your band and the level of absurdity and embarrassment desired.
Basic Edition
Grade: ½-1
Key: Eb
Range: Bb – Ab (Bb in melody)
Rhythms: triplet quarter-eighth in melody, no syncopation, rolls in percussion
Duration 0:20
Deluxe Edition
Grade: ½-1
Key: Eb
Range: Ab – Ab (Bb in melody), optional lower range in Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone
Rhythms: syncopation, rolls in percussion
Duration 0:40
Super Deluxe Edition
Grade: 1 – 1½
Key: Eb
Range: G – Bb , lower range in Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone
Rhythms: syncopation, rolls in percussion
Duration 1:00
Black History Month Band Bundle
Three pieces appropriate for Black History programs! Grade ½ to 1, plus and optional flex band arrangement of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Also available as solo with accompaniment bundle here.
What Christmas Means To Me
Motown Hit by Stevie Wonder
Grade: 1½ – 2
Key: Eb
Meter: 4/4
Duration 2:15
An arrangement of the 1967 Motown hit from Stevie Wonder for the young band!
Price: $20.00
Available for immediate download at SheetMusicDirect!
Old Town Road
Grade ½ – 1
An arrangement of the 2019 Lil Nas X hit for the youngest pep bands! Ranges and rhythms are limited to make this piece accessible for first and second year players. Flute and trumpet have the melody, clarinets and saxes have the background, and all the low instruments have the bass line.
Price: $12.99
Available now at SheetMusicDirect!
Finale (from “The Firebird Suite”)
Preview Score
An adaptation of one of Stravinsky’s most famous pieces for the youngest bands. Chromatics and range are as limited as possible. Options for less advanced and more advanced performers.
Grade: ½ – 1
Key: Bb
Rhythms: No syncopation. Quarter, dotted half, half, and whole notes. No eighths. Rolls in snare, bass, bells and timpani parts.
Meter: 6/4, 7/4, 7/2, 6/4
Duration 2:00
Range
Bb Concert Warm-ups
Grade: 1 – 1½
Six warm-up exercises for young concert band. Each exercise includes a skill for winds and a skill for percussion. Free!!
- Winds/Bells Xylophone: Bb Concert Scale (whole notes)
Snare/Drum Pad: 8 on a hand for snare/drum pad - Winds/Bells Xylophone: Bb Concert Scale – Articulation Study
Snare/Drum Pad: Single Stroke/Double Stroke for snare/drum pad - Winds/Bells Xylophone: Bb Concert Scale and Arpeggio – Ascending and Descending
Snare/Drum Pad: Right Hand Lead - Winds/Bells Xylophone: Lip Slurs/Register Leaps
Snare/Drum Pad: 17 Stroke Roll - Winds/Bells Xylophone: Bb Concert Chromatic Scale – Eighth Notes
Snare/Drum Pad: Flam Tap - Winds/Bells Xylophone: Bb Concert Scale Pattern Study (Frère Jacques) – Ascending and Descending
Snare/Drum Pad: Single Paradiddle