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Finally, 6/8 in grade 1! This bright and happy tune teaches 6/8 while sticking entirely to the D major notes in first position. Along the way every section gets a chance to shine, including your basses!
Originally written for the composer’s very musical daughter, who inspired this light-hearted Ragtime piece, written with the needs of middle school string students in mind. It’s a fun tune that offers a lot of teaching opportunities, including roadmap, C#s, spiccatto, and moving across the common string keys. A great addition to your next concert!
Coast Highway (A Warm and Breezy Drive) explores pop-style string techniques in the style of movie and television themes of the 1950s-60s. It was written as a fun challenge for for an advanced middle school orchestra, and is a guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages! For your string players they get to use finger slides, and for your wind players this piece scales from string orchestra and percussion, to strings and saxophones, all the way to full orchestra. And for everyone solo changes are provided, making this a great way to teach and show off improvisation for your entire group!
This piece is also available for String Orchestra.
Coast Highway (A Warm and Breezy Drive) explores pop-style string techniques in the style of movie and television themes of the 1950s-60s. It was written as a fun challenge for for an advanced middle school orchestra, and is a guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages! Your string players get to use finger slides and solo changes are provided for all instruments, making this a great way to teach and show off improvisation for your entire group!
Fanfare In B is exactly what it says it is-a great grade 1 fanfare in B major! Rhythms (eighth notes only, no syncopation), ranges (clarinets stay below the break), and orchestration are kept achievable for first year players while teaching them some of their other notes, all in package that sounds exciting and fresh. A great opener or closer for your next concert!
In Motion is all about, well, motion! Your guitar players get to play a relentless pulse and melody while accompanied by your winds and percussion. Very achievable, and a great introduction to D major!
In Motion is all about, well, motion! Your string players get to play a relentless pulse and melody while accompanied by your winds and percussion. Very achievable, and a great introduction to D major!
Let’s Work Together lets your beginning band and orchestra members do exactly that-on their first concert! This is a purpose written work specifically for beginning full orchestra, allowing both your string players and winds and percussion chances to play by themselves and to all join each other, all at .5! No eighth notes!
Finally, 6/8 in grade 1! My First Adventure is your students’ first adventure into 6/8! Safe ranges and orchestration (and a euphonium solo!) and a bouncy tune give your students a great way to learn 6/8 in their first or second year of playing!
Give your beginning or second year bass clarinetists and baritone saxophone players a chance to shine! Snakes In The Hallway is a duet for those two instruments and your band as they chase each other in B flat minor. Everything is very playable in the duet and accompaniment parts, and it’s a great opportunity for instruments that aren’t always featured to take the lead.
The Call Of The Open Sky, by Bryan J. Lackey, is an exciting grade 2 fanfare that evokes imagery of an endless frontier and adventure. It heavily features the french horn section, flutes, and percussion, and is a great opener or closer to any concert!
Triumph Of The Giant is for your best beginning tuba player! This is a full solo with band accompaniment, all at grade 1! Give your tuba player a break from their 2 years of endless bass lines and footballs, and let them take the melody in front of your group!
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