Young Band

This bouncy and energetic traditional folk tune is popular in Brazil year-round, while closely associated with the Carnaval celebration leading to Ash Wednesday. A charming familiar tune with a deligh...

Based on Alexander Dumas' adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffman's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the ballet premiered in December of 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tchaikovsky selected eight piece...

Three - Two - One - BLAST OFF! Rock the moon with your band on their next performance. The percussion section is featured, and even helps to provide a 'lift-off' for the moon launch. Great fun for eve...

Three - Two - One - BLAST OFF! Rock the moon with your band on their next performance. The percussion section is featured, and even helps to provide a 'lift-off' for the moon launch. Great fun for eve...

Three - Two - One - BLAST OFF! Rock the moon with your band on their next performance. The percussion section is featured, and even helps to provide a 'lift-off' for the moon launch. Great fun for eve...

Three - Two - One - BLAST OFF! Rock the moon with your band on their next performance. The percussion section is featured, and even helps to provide a 'lift-off' for the moon launch. Great fun for eve...

Here is a very clever 'South of the Border' setting of a familiar tune, making this festive holiday favorite even more fun for your beginners to play on their first concert. The Latin beat gives this...

Everyone wants to be a drummer! This exciting composition provides that opportunity to the entire wind section in a call-and-response section utilizing rhythm sticks. The title also refers to the use...

'Half-Past Two' is a rock piece for young band intended to reinforce and deepen the students' understanding of dotted quarter/eighth note rhythms, providing a vehicle for this concept that is fun and...

The charming folk song chosen by Gustav Holst is found early in his revered Second Suite. Scored for first year players, this is a sea shanty originally from southern England. Historic and musical, th...

Fit for a king, these variations are designed for performance after only a couple of months of instruction. The cherished carol can even be performed before the concept of key signature is introduced....

This energetic original work for your very first concert employs contrasting themes while serving as the perfect vehicle to introduce staccato and accented articulations. All instruments get an opport...

A musical tip-of-the-hat to the wildly popular sci-fi craze, this creative original piece uses only quarter, half, and whole notes for use at the end of the first year of band. Zombies are everywhere!...

A musical tip-of-the-hat to the wildly popular sci-fi craze, this creative original piece uses only quarter, half, and whole notes for use at the end of the first year of band. Zombies are everywhere!...

A musical tip-of-the-hat to the wildly popular sci-fi craze, this creative original piece uses only quarter, half, and whole notes for use at the end of the first year of band. Zombies are everywhere!...

The third movement of Opus 34 (Three Festival Choruses), which Gustav Holst penned in 1916, was originally scored for chorus with piano, orchestra, or military band. The easily recognized melody is a...

The tongue-in-cheek title gives a hint to an upbeat original composition that sets the stage to feature the antics of a unique glissando-anxious section. With an exotic flavor and the ability to engag...

A 19th-century British folk song found throughout England as well as Canada and the United States, the melody is most known as the basis of the last movement of Percy Grainger's masterwork, Lincolnshi...

Boldly ring in the season with this fresh treatment of a holiday favorite. Easy to prepare with rhythms and notes learned in the first year. Hang the stockings and rock out with St. Nick! (1:45)

Open or close your holiday concert with this fanfare setting of two holiday favorites that include, 'Angels We Have Heard on High' and 'Joy to the World.' Lively and cheerful, it's a delightful way to...

Everyone loves a day at the beach---the soothing sounds of the ocean waves with your toes in the sand. 'Wind of the Waves' will transport you to that peaceful place. This beautiful lyrical selection h...

Your beginning band can 'rock out' on their very first concert with this sure-fire crowd pleaser. A catchy bass line and hand-claps start the piece, then the melody joins in, followed by a counter mel...

Imagine a procession of creatures from the wild kingdom marching by as you perform this fun-filled piece. Birds float by, followed by the clip-clops of the approaching horses, mighty elephants, and a...

This piece provides notes and rhythms but no tempo, character, dynamics, or articulations. Enter into the creative process by discussing, auditioning, and choosing musical expressions, all while learn...

This lighthearted selection puts a warm musical spin on an activity so many find themselves doing every holiday season - shopping! A 'call bell' in the percussion section mimics the cash register and...