Michael Sweeney: Easy Sheet Music

Everybody knows it, and your students will want to play it! The simple chord progression is perfect for encouraging your inexperienced improvisers. Online Audio available at www.halleonard.com

Billy Strayhorn's iconic jazz standard, recorded by Duke Ellington, is skillfully adapted in this easy version. From the trademark introduction, saxes on the main theme, and short written or ad lib. s...

Irving Berling's unforgettable holiday classic is a perfect choice for your winter concert. This easy yet effective setting will sound great with limited rehearsal time.

This Beach Boys favorite is still popular with students today and Mike's easy arrangement makes it playable with even beginning groups. Written in a solid rock style with limited use of syncopation, t...

Every concert needs a little fun! One of the best-know songs from the Disney classic Mary Poppins, Mike has cleverly arranged this tune by passing the melody around to every section, plus using a few...

Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 11) Here are rock classics from the group Queen in a beginning level arrangement that uses only quarter notes and half notes (except percussion). Includes: °...

Includes themes from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and E. T. (The Extra-Terrestrial). Hal Leonard's innovative Flex-Band series is designed to provide exciting music for bands with incomplete or unbalance...

Even using the reduced instrumentation inherent in the Flex-Band format, Michael brings the power and excitement of the original in this authentic-sounding arrangement for inexperienced players. Inclu...

From Leonard Bernstein's masterwork Mass, this tuneful ballad has become its best-known and most often recorded song. Here is a beautifully poignant setting for band, authentically transcribed by Mich...

Highlights from Aladdin by Alan Menken and Tim Rice. Includes: Arabian Nights, Friend Like Me and A Whole New World. Arranged by Michael Sweeney for Concert Band. Score and parts.

At last, a jazz play-along book for developing players! In addition to being a perfect introduction to some of the best-known jazz standards, this book includes hints for improvising on each tune, a g...

Without losing the essence of this Dizzy Gillespie masterpiece, Mike has crafted a marvelous chart for young players using safe ranges and moderate rhythms. You'll still find the trademark alternating...

Everyone will recognize this Duke Ellington classic. Using interesting textures and alternating between a Latin groove and swing, this is a very effective production number with limited technical dema...

Here is a very playable yet effectively powerful setting of highlights from the hit Broadway musical about the Wicked Witch of the West. Includes: No One Mourns the Wicked, Dancing Through Life, Defyi...

One of the most recognizable themes ever written. This easy arrangement stays true to the original 5/4 version and features the saxes on the melody with the brass on those signature rhythmic punches.

Bill Haley & The Comets made the top of the charts with this hit back in1955. And, it's as fun now as it was back then! This easy chart will sound great with any band.

This is the song that every band wants to play, and this very easy arrangement makes it possible for even beginning jazz ensembles. Don't miss out on the fun!

Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble - Grade 1-2 This soulful and funky tune is built using a twisted sort of blues progression, but is a great sounding groove for beginning bands. This will come toge...

Here is a good example of creative arranging using very limited technical demands. Michael has taken this familiar standard and converted it into a smooth-sounding Latin chart. A trumpet/alto duet sta...

A collection of Broadway songs arranged to be played by either full band or by individual soloists with optional accompaniment CD or tape. Each arrangement is correlated with a specific page in the Es...

Known for his skill in adapting jazz classics for beginning players, Michael brings us this Bobby Timmons favorite in a very playable version. The style is medium slow swing, and the saxes present the...

Be sure to bring the hip side of Frosty to your next holiday event with this swingin' version for beginning groups. Including short solos for trumpet that can also be played as section features, this...

Drawing on the rich and varied tradition of Celtic folk songs, this piece opens with the touching and melodious 'The Parting Glass. ' The flutes and percussion take center stage on the dance-like 'Tha...

Here is an economical collection of 15 complete arrangements in a variety of styles. Perfect for quickly building a library of great sounding charts. Playable with 3 saxes, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, pia...