Scott Rogers Sheet Music for Concert Band

Hedwig's Theme is the easily recognizable melody that musically binds together all of the Harry Potter films. Composer John Williams has used the tune as a leitmotif, setting it in different moods acc...

Hit It! Using a minimum of rhythmic and melodic material, Hit It! creates a dynamic interplay between the winds and the percussion. The tune is also a little tribute to the popular TV themes of compos...

The piece's minor key melody and beat-afterbeat accompagniment give associations to other well-known dances from Hungary, like Czardas and Brahm's famous Hungarian Dances. A lively tempo is an importa...

Knock On Wood' has a genuine blues pedigree. This hit song from 1966 was written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper of 'Blues Brothers' fame. Knock on Wood has become a rock and roll classic, and has be...

This lullabye comes from the children's film Karsten and Petra Become Best Friends, based on Tor Åge Bringsværd's popular children's book. This arrangement gives young musicians the opportunity to per...

This arrangement combines the well-known Norwegian folksong 'Noringen' with a Springdans. Noringen is a tune associated with traditional wedding celebrations (especially on the morning of the second d...

''Watermelon Man' is a standard jazz tune composed by pianist Herbie Hancock. The tune follows a regular 16-bar blues form that draws on elements from gospel and R&B. Hancock claimed that the song was...

It is not often that we get to play a really dramatic piece with a young band. The Dark Castle creates a solemn and regal atmosphere with its slow puls and stately percussion.

It is important for young bands to play in minor keys. Elvish Dance is not only a minor key piece suitable for young bands, it also has a hint of dorian and lydian modes to give it that real elvish fe...

A trip to Coconut Island is always enjoyable! Soft Latin rhythms, a relaxing tempo, and tutti rhythm figures combine to create the perfect vacation. Coconut Island introduces young musicians to Latin...

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...

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...

'Big Big World' is a ballad by Swedish pop artist Emilia Rydberg. The song won the Swedish Grammis, the prize for 'Song of the Year 1998', and the Swedish 'Rockbjörnen' prize. The song's simple and vu...

'Aura Lee - the Maid with Golden Hair' is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (lyrics) and George R. Poulton (music). The tune is familiar to modern audiences fr...

This little melody leaps up and down giving young musicians the opportunity to practice ascending and descending intervals up to a perfect fifth. Short diatonic scale patterns create contrast to all t...

You Really Got Me' was written by Ray Davies, and became The Kinks big break. It is a genuine rock classic, and one of the most distinctive and easily recognizable tunes from the 1960s. The tune's cat...

Tielman Susato was a renaisance composer, performed on most of the known wind instruments of his time, and one of the first publishers of music. The dance tune 'La Mourisque' was included in his colle...

One of the worlds most widely known melodies, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is based on a French melody (Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman) first published in 1761. The lyrics were first published in 1806, in a...

Little Machine is built on an eigth-note pulse and interlocking parts. Everybody has an important piece of the action, and the Little Machine just doesn't run unless all of the parts are in place. The...

Vitae Lux (Light of Life) is a popular melody written by Norwegian guitarist Frode Alnæs. It has been recorded by many different artists including Sissel Kyrkjebø, trumpetist Ole Edvard Antonsen, and...

Every beginning low brass player deserves a big bassline. With a rhythmic focus on quarter- and eighth notes and a range of a fourth, this piece is easily accessible for all beginning low brass player...

Every beginning musician should have experience playing in 3/4 time in addition to 2/4 and 4/4. In concept learning, playing in ¾ is important to the musicians understanding of more complex triple met...

Music Box was inspired by the memory of a small music box my grandmother had at her house. I would always find it and wind it up to hear it play every time I was visiting. This piece combines triadic...

Besetzung: Fl, 2 Klar. in Bb, Altsax, 2 Trp/Corn., Tuba, Drums