Easy Sheet Music from Belwin Music for Beginners

An accessible and swingin' version of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band chart scored for young players. There is a nice sax soli and 1st trumpet range is to written G on top of the staff. A 12-bar writte...

Perhaps one of the most well-known standards of all time, this easy but effective chart has a laid-back swing feel. The tempo is MM=90 with written solos for alto 1 and trumpet 1, lead trumpet goes up...

This easy-to-play shuffle swings at around 144 BPM. This is a well-known melody scored for young players that features accessible ranges, brief written-out solos for tenor, alto, trumpet, and trombone...

A very clever chart for a younger band featuring a few sound effects. An easy swing played around 132 BPM with written solos cued for all saxes and trumpets. Trumpet 1 range is to written E-flat top s...

This is a very cool shuffle-swing groove by Zachary Smith is played around 140 BPM. Written solos are provided for trombone 1 and alto 1, a stop-time interlude, a big shout chorus, and an optional voc...

The best way to teach the laid-back 'Basie style' is by working on LI'L DARLIN', but up until now it was only playable by more advanced groups. Roy Phillippe has changed the key and reorchestrated thi...

Neal Hefti's great drum feature CUTE is arranged here for your beginning jazz band! This tune has been performed by many great jazz bands from Count Basie on down, but now arranger Mike Story works hi...

Correlated to Unit 5 of Jazz Expressions™, Sweet Georgia Brown is a great jazz classic arranged by Mike Lewis at the easy level. The focus in this chart is on syncopation using easy rhythms, modest ra...

Composed by Grammy?' award-winning composer/arranger/producer Quincy Jones and arranged by Roy Phillippe. Roy captures the swinging big band sound starting off with a call-and-response between the sax...

The Best of Belwin Jazz: First Year Charts for Jazz Ensemble is a collection of twelve outstanding jazz ensemble arrangements for the young player. Each chart is written by experienced educational arr...

Get ready to place your tongue in your cheek with this three-four classic in an all new light; the traditional Strauss waltz melody is clanked out on water glasses. Prepared for the first year players...

This new warm-up program is designed for student transposition to any appropriate key. This single band part for inclusion in the students' folders will exceed your daily warm-up and teaching objectiv...

Combining two classics, Douglas E. Wagner has crafted this charming duo for performers with less than a year of instruction. This setting will make your band sound big and polished while using primari...

The traditional dance in Africa often expresses the life of the community. Danza Africana is an original composition by Victor Lopez building on the musical concepts of these dances. It is easy to lea...

Here is an original composition inspired by the Spanish Armada, which was the fleet that sailed against England in 1588, with the intention of overthrowing Elizabeth I.

A musical depiction of a state of utter confusion. There's order in that jumble of sound. Great fun for every first-year ensemble, the work has segments of unpredictable sound. You can predict a treme...

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!...

This familiar patriotic tune is historically related to Revolutionary times. Fluidly traveling between instrument families, everyone has opportunity with the melody and harmony. A full scoring for you...

Honor the Brave, by Victor López, is an original composition dedicated to all veterans who have served honorably on active duty in the Armed Forces. It celebrates those men and women who have made the...

Honor the Brave, by Victor López, is an original composition dedicated to all veterans who have served honorably on active duty in the Armed Forces. It celebrates those men and women who have made the...

The dictionary tells us that a tempest is 'a violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow or hail.' In the hands of Robert W. Smith, the scoring supplies all of the fury and rage within the...

The dictionary tells us that a tempest is 'a violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow or hail.' In the hands of Robert W. Smith, the scoring supplies all of the fury and rage within the...

Quintilian was inspired by the work of the ancient Roman philosopher and educator of the same name, who set forth the original seven liberal arts as the ideal curriculum for educated citizens. After a...

Inspired by his daughters' first dance recital, Mr. Smith has created this beginning band composition. It is a pleasure to offer great original performance literature for beginning strings in their fi...

Jasmine Flower is a setting of the traditional Chinese folk song 'Molihua,' likely originating in the southern China provinces. The tune is a vital part of Chinese New Year celebrations and was also f...