Concert Band for Beginners

This march uses simple diatonic patterns and call-and-response melody to create an accessible introduction to march style. The melody is also easy to whistle. Try performing the march by whistling the...

The melodies in this march came to me when I made pancakes at home before rehearsal in the Band I conduct. The players in the band enjoyed the music as well as the title.Most children enjoy eating pa...

I wrote this march for Furuset skoles musikkorps and Haugen skolekorps for the 17th of May 2007. It has a simple texture that you will have sounding good with not too much practice. It is also suitabl...

Rock the Streets is a march based on a dialog between the winds and percussion. The piece is build up on ostinato figures, something that makes mastery of the individual parts easier and faster. The f...

Creator of some of Broadway's most memorable moments, composer Charles Strouse celebrates his 80th birthday in 2008! Join the gala celebration with this entertaining medley of showstoppers.

Here is a terrific patriotic medley for young players that uses fragments of several familiar melodies in a creative collage setting. Every section of the band gets a chance to play the melody at some...

Here is a terrific patriotic medley for young players that uses fragments of several familiar melodies in a creative collage setting. Every section of the band gets a chance to play the melody at some...

This is one or the most interesting, useful teaching aids ever developed for beginning bands. It's full of chorales, exercises and rounds, all designed to reinforce concerpts you are trying to teach i...

This delightful medley, which correlates with Yamaha Band Student, Book 1, page 28, brings together three classic favorites in a creative and easily accessible way. Beginning with Mussorgsky's 'Hopak,...

This kit for beginning concert band contains four grade-one selections on a two-page part which can be used as a program for a complete concert or separately as supplemental material for the first yea...

This kit for beginning concert band contains four grade-one selections on a two-page part which can be used as a program for a complete concert or separately as supplemental material for the first yea...

This kit for beginning concert band contains four grade-one selections on a two-page part which can be used as a program for a complete concert or separately as supplemental material for the first yea...

As the title suggests, this through-played medley contains short excerpts from eight well-known sea and river songs. Included are 'Blow the Man Down,' 'Spanish Ladies,' 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,...

As the title suggests, this through-played medley contains short excerpts from eight well-known sea and river songs. Included are 'Blow the Man Down,' 'Spanish Ladies,' 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,...

As the title suggests, this through-played medley contains short excerpts from eight well-known sea and river songs. Included are 'Blow the Man Down,' 'Spanish Ladies,' 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,...

Aus der Reihe 'Bernaerts Young Band (band book series).

A lush treatment for younger bands of Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger and Shenandoah. Balanced treatment of the melody and accompaniment involves all of the band’s sonorities and gives ample room for teaching...

Young players sometimes need a lyric piece with built-in emotional points and dynamic variety. This easy arrangement starts softly with just clarinets and F horn on the melody, then gradually builds t...

Young players sometimes need a lyric piece with built-in emotional points and dynamic variety. This easy arrangement starts softly with just clarinets and F horn on the melody, then gradually builds t...

One of the key moments from the hit Broadway musical Wicked centers around this powerful song. Here is an authentic-sounding arrangement that even beginners can enjoy.

This stunningly beautiful ballad from the Broadway musical Les Misérables has enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to Susan Boyle, the TV show Glee, and also the 2012 motion picture. Robert's arrangement...