Products We're really sorry... We don't currently have that one in stock Please add your email and we'll notify you when it's back Email Home» New Items "One Love/People Get Ready" by Bob Marley List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "One Love/People Get Ready" by Bob Marley ISBN SDKK-012 Difficulty: Easy (great for high school & college steel bands)This is a wonderful arrangement of Bob Marley’s iconic song. You’ll have your audience singing along and thinking “warm thoughts.” This one will help you teach your band that “laid back Jamaican beat.” List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Party in the Panyard" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Party in the Panyard" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-005 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Party in the Panyard" is a soca that was written for a middle school that was performing in Panorama in Trinidad. The last half of Letter A is used as an ending at Letter G. The drum set uses a standard soca groove at Letter B and then switches to a power soca using the floor tom at Letter C. The last two measures of Letter B and all of Letter C have the melody in the tenor line and bass line. The strumming patterns for the double second and triple guitars change from upbeat focus in Letter B to downbeat focus in Letter C. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Pirates of the Caribbean" - Movie Music List Price: $70.00Price$65.00 "Pirates of the Caribbean" - Movie Music ISBN SDKL-004 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and beginning college steel bands)This theme song from the popular movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" features various moods of the movie through its tempos, time signature changes, eclectic rhythms and added percussion. The piece begins with a very slow and sombre introduction and then continues to build all the way to a high energy.... List Price: $70.00Price$65.00 Add to cart "Playdate" by Liam Teague List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Playdate" by Liam Teague ISBN SDLT-012 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)Playdate was created for the 2022 Percussion and Steelband Birch Creek Music and Performance Academy Summer Camp which is geared to high school musicians. This will definitely get your band and audiences moving, and it gives the musicians an opportunity to improvise.Please note that the bass would be challenging for steelpan players(there are some sixteenth-note passages in there) as I created it mainly for the electric bass player at Birch Creek. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Ponderosa Island" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Ponderosa Island" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-038 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Ponderosa Island is an almost 3 minute upbeat Soca tune. This happy-go-lucky tune brings to mind some sunny and funny kayak camping trips to Ponderosa Island on Percy Preist Lake in Nashville, TN. Island hopping, swimming, fishing, campfires, and time with friends. It may not be the Caribbean but these islands certainly have a great island vibe of their own! List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Port of Spain" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Port of Spain" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-011 Difficulty: Easy (great for elementary school steel bands)"Port of Spain" is the capital city of Trinidad. This is an important place in the story of the steelpan's creation. This is soca chart, a prominent music style in Trinidad & Tobago. Letter A is a unison section to get the whole group started. Letter B introduces a melody in the jumbie jam and tenor parts. The double seconds and triple guitars introduce a simple strumming pattern from Trinidad and Tobago. The bass part at B glues everything together. Letter C is a call and response section between high pans and low pans, which is found in many Panorama steel band arrangements. This is a great chart to teach students the unique qualities of soca music. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Samba Time" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Samba Time" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-015 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Samba Time" is in the style of Samba Batucada. I wrote this to combine my two favorite styles of music: steel band and Brazilian Samba. The drumset part includes authentic Brazilian rhythms. If you have Brazilian Samba instruments, you can have students read the snare drum part on caixia and the bass drum part on surdo. This chart utilizes a partido alto rhythm in the steel band. This would be a great way to introduce Brazilian rhythms in your steel band. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain ISBN SDJG-002 Difficulty: Medium-Easy (great for middle school & high school, and beginning college steel bands)Joshua Garrett’s steel band arrangement of Journey’s classic rock anthem "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" transforms the high-energy 1983 hit into a vibrant, rhythmic percussion showcase. The arrangement blends classic arena rock intensity with the rich, resonant textures of a steel drum orchestra. Beneath the main melody in the leads and double tenors, the double seconds and cello pans weave syncopated chordal patterns that maintain the heavy, dramatic rock tension of the original track. Journey drummer, Steve Smith’s epic drum solo is transcribed to give the drummer their time to shine. This is great for high school and collegiate steel ensembles looking to perform an infectious, crowd-pleasing classic. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Shoreline Drive" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Shoreline Drive" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-053 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This is a roll your windows down and breathe in the warm costal air kind of tune. Shoreline Drive is a cruising minor reggae tune that your band is sure to be humming to and from rehearsal. There are opportunities to feature soloists and great parts to feature your low pans. Nothing too terribly challenging to execute but plenty to teach from. I hope you and your band enjoy learning this piece! List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Silent Night" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Silent Night" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-048 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Silent Night is a classic siciliana style song that brings the reason for the season to the forefront of everyone's mind. This no drums band arrangement sets a reflective mood but brings the drama and showcases the dynamics and color of the band. This is an easy to learn, tough to master type arrangement. The band could read the notes in minutes but you can take as much time as you'd like to evoke more emotion from the page. I hope this gives your audience an opportunity to witness the beauty of these instruments. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Sloop John B" Traditional Folk Song List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Sloop John B" Traditional Folk Song ISBN SDES-026 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Popularized in 1966 by The Beach Boys on their album "Pet Sounds", Sloop John B has it's origin as a Bahamian folk song. The melody is first stated with the lead pans and soon after in the double seconds as "Yellow Bird" and "Jamaican Farewell" whispers are heard. This arrangement is designed to teach basic Calypso and Soca rhythms for beginning ensembles. Parts with note names are also included. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Smoke Rise" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Smoke Rise" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-056 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Smoke Rise was inspired by the smoke rising in morning over the Smoky Mountains. The opening theme represents the rolling smoke over the hills while Letter D puts me in mind of the rises and falls of the mountains themselves. Grounded, Solid, and Undulating. This piece will challenge bands to read in 12/8 and balance the unison chord structures throughout. I hope you and your band enjoy painting this mental picture for your audience. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Snow Day" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Snow Day" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Snow Day" was written during a snowstorm that closed my school. The snowfall inspired me to write a chart where the steel pans sang like a choir. The focus of the smooth legato rolls on the pans recreates the image of snow falling on the ground. I recommend starting to learn letter G first. Each steel pan plays a descending F major scale, starting with the tenors and ending with the bass pans. This same scale can be used in the open solo section in letter D. An accompaniment part was written for double seconds, triple guitars, and basses, but these voices can take a solo as well. The director can choose to keep the pulse steady at 80 bpm or allow the piece to flow in and out of that tempo. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "SoCanWe!" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "SoCanWe!" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-039 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)SoCanWe! Is a mostly minor keyed Soca tune that will provide the lower voices with some needed attention. The chord changes come at them quickly in this tune and the switch to major at letter H should give the whole band a lift in spirit. The written engine room parts should give some opportunity for teaching them to stop and start with the rest of the band. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Steam" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Steam" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-040 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Steam is a beginner friendly Cha-Cha style tune that is around 3mins long. The 3 distinct phrases feature 8th notes through whole notes and melodically feature the G Major scale. The D section can be extended to feature some select soloists. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Steel and Roll" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Steel and Roll" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-016 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Steel and Roll" is a classic rock chart. A is a big introduction of each steel pan. This is a great chart for beginning steel band students. This chart follows a verse-chorus form. The bridge at F is a breakdown section that leads into the last chorus section. You can make this bridge section longer by introducing one part at a time. This is a quick chart to learn, with only four main sections to learn. Steel and Roll is a great chart to introduce dynamics. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Steel Echoes" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Steel Echoes" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-017 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Steel Echoes" is a jazz chart. It is in the swing style. This chart introduces students to swinging the eighth notes. Tenors, double seconds, and triple guitars use swung rhythms in this chart. The bass pans serve as the bass guitar, playing a simple bass line. All of the pans play a hit section together at C. This is reminiscent of jazz bands playing strong hits together. Steel Echoes features louder dynamics, which are accurate to swing charts. This is a great chart to introduce students to swing and other jazz music. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Steelband Action Pack" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $115.00Price$90.00 "Steelband Action Pack" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-008 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)- Scales, Rhythms, Rote, Tamboo Bamboo, and Engine RoomThis pack contains all the playable/actionable portions of "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit". The resources in this pack will get you ready to teach important parts of steelband history, genres, and learning styles through playing. You will also find resources that can be utilized as daily warmups. This pack should empower and equip new and experienced alike. Read below for more info on each resource: List Price: $115.00Price$90.00 Add to cart "Steelband Engine Room Parts" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 "Steelband Engine Room Parts" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-001 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet is perfect for all new steelband directors, those who want some printable material for their engine room, those who want to have a quick style reference to refresh their memory...etc. This is your guide to stylistically appropriate Engine Room Parts for your steelband. While it won't teach you how to play each instrument, it will tell you what to play, a little about the style, some other suggested rhythms...etc. This packet contains written Engine room parts for the following styles: List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "Steelband Holiday Collection: Volume 1" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $65.00Price$60.00 "Steelband Holiday Collection: Volume 1" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-045 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This collection includes arrangements of 5 popular holiday tunes. 3 of the tunes are associated with Christmas: Deck The Halls, Jolly Old St Nicholas, and Silent Night. There is 1 classic Chanukah tune: I Have a Little Dreidel, and there is even a tune typically associated with New Years Eve: Auld Lang Syne. This collection will give your band some options when heading into the holiday season. The arrangements are short and sweet but include some fresh harmonies and familiar steelband styles. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $60 for all 5, that's $12 per chart!! List Price: $65.00Price$60.00 Add to cart "Steelband Learning Pack" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $40.00Price$25.00 "Steelband Learning Pack" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-007 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)- References, Guides, Handouts, and VisualsThis pack contains all of the informational-based portions of "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit". The info in this pack will equip you from zero knowledge to rehearsal-ready. Of course there will be more to learn but the goal is to get you up and running quickly and without the time and effort spent searching high and low for the info you need. As the director, you can start strong on day one or refresh/supplement your materials with printables, graphics, and info. Read below for more info on each resource: List Price: $40.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "Steelband Rhythm Reading Packet" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $35.00Price$30.00 "Steelband Rhythm Reading Packet" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-005 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet contains 3 levels of full-band rhythm reading material. Each level has 26 one measure rhythms (assigned rehearsal marks A-Z). Here are some of the potential uses of this packet: List Price: $35.00Price$30.00 Add to cart "Stir It Up " by Bob Marley List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Stir It Up " by Bob Marley ISBN SDKK-013 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)Your band will have a good time this one. Bob Marley’s tune bounces along with a Bass line that won’t take long to learn and lines that flow throughout. This is a good change-of-pace tune for your next concert. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie ISBN SDBS-0124 Difficulty: Medium (ggreat for high school and beginning college steel bands)A Lionel Richie classic tune that is set to a spunky reggae feel. This tune will get the listeners groovin' in no time. Key of F major List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Teaching Tamboo Bamboo with Performance Parts" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $20.00Price$15.00 "Teaching Tamboo Bamboo with Performance Parts" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-002 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This resource is a great way to get started teaching your band about Tamboo Bamboo. This important part of steelpan history, in my opinion, is best taught interactively. This guide provides you with: List Price: $20.00Price$15.00 Add to cart "Teaching Tunes by Rote" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $25.00Price$20.00 "Teaching Tunes by Rote" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet is a reference on how to select, arrange, and teach a tune by rote plus 3 print-ready rote cheat sheets for directors to start their band into rote learning immediately. Rote teaching is a huge part of how steelpan music was and is played in Trinidad. Now you have some tools to be able to give your band a bit of that experience. With 3 tunes ready to go you can start today. Tunes: Soca Evelyn by Lord Kitchner, Day-O by Harry Belafonte, and Obeah Wedding by Might Sparrow. List Price: $25.00Price$20.00 Add to cart "The Blue Cheese Blues" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Blue Cheese Blues" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-041 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)The Blue Cheese Blues is a mid tempo 12 Bar Blues that is perfect for teaching about the Blues, 12 bar blues, improvisation, tag endings, and call & response. The opening 12 bars is the foundation of the whole piece but it also gives multiple phrases to solo over (w/ a major blues scale for a jumping off point), and a call and response phrase in the middle to shake things up a bit and challenge the readers a bit more. This piece should be disassembled and reassembled as needed for your band or teaching needs. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "The Hadley Way" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "The Hadley Way" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-002 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"The Hadley Way" is a representation of my school, DuPont Hadley Middle School. We are based in Nashville, TN, so it was appropriate that the style would be country. Letter C is a feature for the triple guitars and bass pans based on a descending arpeggio. Letter A features a harmony created by each steel pan starting on a different part of the descending G major scale. At letter E, be sure to focus on the cascading effect created by the rolls and descending scales. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 "The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-006 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" is a collection of five engaging and educational steel band charts specifically composed for middle school-aged students. Each chart is about 2-3 minutes long. This collection offers multiple styles of music, including Country, Chorale, Reggae, and Soca. Each chart follows a simple structure that makes learning the music easy and accessible even for newer steel bands. This is a great resource for new steel band directors in the Middle School setting. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $50 for all 5, that's $10 per chart!! List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 Add to cart "The Middle School Steel Band Series 02" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 "The Middle School Steel Band Series 02" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-018 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)This collection of music is the second volume in my Middle School Steel Band Series. This volume focuses on different styles of music. All of the music in this pack was written with the middle school student in mind. These charts are great for the classroom and the performance hall. You may make changes to the music and adapt it to your steel band. I hope this resource is valuable to middle school steel band programs. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $50 for all 5, that's $10 per chart!! List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 Add to cart "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $210.00Price$125.00 "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-006 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)If you are a new steelband director hoping to start off strong or an experienced director hoping for more ready-made resources, this is the book for you! This collection of resources should help in many different ways including: building your confidence, saving you from spending time creating your own resources from scratch, saving you time from researching answers in multiple places to get started, providing insight into various aspects of steelpan, providing you with daily warmup and music fundamentals materials, giving techniques and tips to help you navigate successful rehearsals, providing resources to teach engine room/tunes by rote/tamboo bamboo, and 6 compositions for early steelband. The ways that you utilize these materials are only limited by your imagination! List Price: $210.00Price$125.00 Add to cart "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News ISBN SDMB3-007 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)An energetic and driving arrangement with a steel-sound of the ear-worm from one of Hollywood's greatest films. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner " by John Stafford Smith List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Star Spangled Banner " by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDDS-009 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)The Star-Spangled Banner was composed in 1814 by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. Its powerful lyrics and memorable melody have made it one of the most enduring symbols of the United States. This steel band arrangement brings the anthem to life with the rich, resonant sound of the steel pan ensemble while maintaining the dignity and respect deserved by this national treasure. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner" by John Stafford Smith List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "The Star Spangled Banner" by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDMD-0043 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)You definitely need the national anthem in your repertoire! Here is a solo double second version. A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner-Duo" by John Stafford Smith List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "The Star Spangled Banner-Duo" by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDMD-0044 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)You definitely need the national anthem in your repertoire! Here is a duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds. A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "The Turn" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Turn" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-052 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This slippery soca keeps the audience guessing on what is coming next. Your band will love the interesting harmonies and low pan features. The Bridge section gives a great contrast and a variation on the main melody theme before launching you back in for the rise to the end. Inspired by the "turn" in poker, which can change things suddenly, I hope this piece keeps you on your toes. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "There is Power in the Blood" by Lewis E. Jones List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "There is Power in the Blood" by Lewis E. Jones ISBN SDBS-0104 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school and beginning college steel bands)This old-time gospel favorite will delight any audience anytime. The added horn section will add a new dimension to the steel drum sound. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Tranquill Porcupine" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Tranquill Porcupine" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-042 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Tranquill Porcupine is a Classical Waltz for steelband. NOTE*** there is no drumset or engine room for this piece as it is meant to highlight the tones and textures of the steelpans alone. The important thing to note pedagogically is that the Tenor and Double Seconds are always in support of eachother and the Basses and Triples make up the bass/chording components throughout. This is written in the style of a simple piano piece but split across the 4 voices of the band. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke ISBN SDMD-0045 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Add this to your wedding repertoire! This piece, also known as "The Prince of Denmark's March," is classic processional music for the wedding party and bride. Arranged for solo tenor (or double seconds). A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "Trumpet Voluntary-Duo" by Jeremiah Clarke List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "Trumpet Voluntary-Duo" by Jeremiah Clarke ISBN SDMD-0046 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Add this to your wedding repertoire! This piece, also known as "The Prince of Denmark's March," is classic processional music for the wedding party and bride. Arranged for tenor and double seconds duo. A solo version for Tenor or Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart « Previous1234Next »
Products We're really sorry... We don't currently have that one in stock Please add your email and we'll notify you when it's back Email Home» New Items "One Love/People Get Ready" by Bob Marley List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "One Love/People Get Ready" by Bob Marley ISBN SDKK-012 Difficulty: Easy (great for high school & college steel bands)This is a wonderful arrangement of Bob Marley’s iconic song. You’ll have your audience singing along and thinking “warm thoughts.” This one will help you teach your band that “laid back Jamaican beat.” List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Party in the Panyard" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Party in the Panyard" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-005 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Party in the Panyard" is a soca that was written for a middle school that was performing in Panorama in Trinidad. The last half of Letter A is used as an ending at Letter G. The drum set uses a standard soca groove at Letter B and then switches to a power soca using the floor tom at Letter C. The last two measures of Letter B and all of Letter C have the melody in the tenor line and bass line. The strumming patterns for the double second and triple guitars change from upbeat focus in Letter B to downbeat focus in Letter C. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Pirates of the Caribbean" - Movie Music List Price: $70.00Price$65.00 "Pirates of the Caribbean" - Movie Music ISBN SDKL-004 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and beginning college steel bands)This theme song from the popular movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" features various moods of the movie through its tempos, time signature changes, eclectic rhythms and added percussion. The piece begins with a very slow and sombre introduction and then continues to build all the way to a high energy.... List Price: $70.00Price$65.00 Add to cart "Playdate" by Liam Teague List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Playdate" by Liam Teague ISBN SDLT-012 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)Playdate was created for the 2022 Percussion and Steelband Birch Creek Music and Performance Academy Summer Camp which is geared to high school musicians. This will definitely get your band and audiences moving, and it gives the musicians an opportunity to improvise.Please note that the bass would be challenging for steelpan players(there are some sixteenth-note passages in there) as I created it mainly for the electric bass player at Birch Creek. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Ponderosa Island" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Ponderosa Island" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-038 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Ponderosa Island is an almost 3 minute upbeat Soca tune. This happy-go-lucky tune brings to mind some sunny and funny kayak camping trips to Ponderosa Island on Percy Preist Lake in Nashville, TN. Island hopping, swimming, fishing, campfires, and time with friends. It may not be the Caribbean but these islands certainly have a great island vibe of their own! List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Port of Spain" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Port of Spain" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-011 Difficulty: Easy (great for elementary school steel bands)"Port of Spain" is the capital city of Trinidad. This is an important place in the story of the steelpan's creation. This is soca chart, a prominent music style in Trinidad & Tobago. Letter A is a unison section to get the whole group started. Letter B introduces a melody in the jumbie jam and tenor parts. The double seconds and triple guitars introduce a simple strumming pattern from Trinidad and Tobago. The bass part at B glues everything together. Letter C is a call and response section between high pans and low pans, which is found in many Panorama steel band arrangements. This is a great chart to teach students the unique qualities of soca music. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Samba Time" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Samba Time" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-015 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Samba Time" is in the style of Samba Batucada. I wrote this to combine my two favorite styles of music: steel band and Brazilian Samba. The drumset part includes authentic Brazilian rhythms. If you have Brazilian Samba instruments, you can have students read the snare drum part on caixia and the bass drum part on surdo. This chart utilizes a partido alto rhythm in the steel band. This would be a great way to introduce Brazilian rhythms in your steel band. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain ISBN SDJG-002 Difficulty: Medium-Easy (great for middle school & high school, and beginning college steel bands)Joshua Garrett’s steel band arrangement of Journey’s classic rock anthem "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" transforms the high-energy 1983 hit into a vibrant, rhythmic percussion showcase. The arrangement blends classic arena rock intensity with the rich, resonant textures of a steel drum orchestra. Beneath the main melody in the leads and double tenors, the double seconds and cello pans weave syncopated chordal patterns that maintain the heavy, dramatic rock tension of the original track. Journey drummer, Steve Smith’s epic drum solo is transcribed to give the drummer their time to shine. This is great for high school and collegiate steel ensembles looking to perform an infectious, crowd-pleasing classic. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Shoreline Drive" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Shoreline Drive" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-053 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This is a roll your windows down and breathe in the warm costal air kind of tune. Shoreline Drive is a cruising minor reggae tune that your band is sure to be humming to and from rehearsal. There are opportunities to feature soloists and great parts to feature your low pans. Nothing too terribly challenging to execute but plenty to teach from. I hope you and your band enjoy learning this piece! List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Silent Night" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Silent Night" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-048 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Silent Night is a classic siciliana style song that brings the reason for the season to the forefront of everyone's mind. This no drums band arrangement sets a reflective mood but brings the drama and showcases the dynamics and color of the band. This is an easy to learn, tough to master type arrangement. The band could read the notes in minutes but you can take as much time as you'd like to evoke more emotion from the page. I hope this gives your audience an opportunity to witness the beauty of these instruments. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Sloop John B" Traditional Folk Song List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Sloop John B" Traditional Folk Song ISBN SDES-026 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Popularized in 1966 by The Beach Boys on their album "Pet Sounds", Sloop John B has it's origin as a Bahamian folk song. The melody is first stated with the lead pans and soon after in the double seconds as "Yellow Bird" and "Jamaican Farewell" whispers are heard. This arrangement is designed to teach basic Calypso and Soca rhythms for beginning ensembles. Parts with note names are also included. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Smoke Rise" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Smoke Rise" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-056 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Smoke Rise was inspired by the smoke rising in morning over the Smoky Mountains. The opening theme represents the rolling smoke over the hills while Letter D puts me in mind of the rises and falls of the mountains themselves. Grounded, Solid, and Undulating. This piece will challenge bands to read in 12/8 and balance the unison chord structures throughout. I hope you and your band enjoy painting this mental picture for your audience. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Snow Day" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Snow Day" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Snow Day" was written during a snowstorm that closed my school. The snowfall inspired me to write a chart where the steel pans sang like a choir. The focus of the smooth legato rolls on the pans recreates the image of snow falling on the ground. I recommend starting to learn letter G first. Each steel pan plays a descending F major scale, starting with the tenors and ending with the bass pans. This same scale can be used in the open solo section in letter D. An accompaniment part was written for double seconds, triple guitars, and basses, but these voices can take a solo as well. The director can choose to keep the pulse steady at 80 bpm or allow the piece to flow in and out of that tempo. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "SoCanWe!" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "SoCanWe!" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-039 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)SoCanWe! Is a mostly minor keyed Soca tune that will provide the lower voices with some needed attention. The chord changes come at them quickly in this tune and the switch to major at letter H should give the whole band a lift in spirit. The written engine room parts should give some opportunity for teaching them to stop and start with the rest of the band. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Steam" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Steam" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-040 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Steam is a beginner friendly Cha-Cha style tune that is around 3mins long. The 3 distinct phrases feature 8th notes through whole notes and melodically feature the G Major scale. The D section can be extended to feature some select soloists. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Steel and Roll" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Steel and Roll" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-016 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Steel and Roll" is a classic rock chart. A is a big introduction of each steel pan. This is a great chart for beginning steel band students. This chart follows a verse-chorus form. The bridge at F is a breakdown section that leads into the last chorus section. You can make this bridge section longer by introducing one part at a time. This is a quick chart to learn, with only four main sections to learn. Steel and Roll is a great chart to introduce dynamics. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Steel Echoes" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Steel Echoes" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-017 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Steel Echoes" is a jazz chart. It is in the swing style. This chart introduces students to swinging the eighth notes. Tenors, double seconds, and triple guitars use swung rhythms in this chart. The bass pans serve as the bass guitar, playing a simple bass line. All of the pans play a hit section together at C. This is reminiscent of jazz bands playing strong hits together. Steel Echoes features louder dynamics, which are accurate to swing charts. This is a great chart to introduce students to swing and other jazz music. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Steelband Action Pack" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $115.00Price$90.00 "Steelband Action Pack" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-008 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)- Scales, Rhythms, Rote, Tamboo Bamboo, and Engine RoomThis pack contains all the playable/actionable portions of "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit". The resources in this pack will get you ready to teach important parts of steelband history, genres, and learning styles through playing. You will also find resources that can be utilized as daily warmups. This pack should empower and equip new and experienced alike. Read below for more info on each resource: List Price: $115.00Price$90.00 Add to cart "Steelband Engine Room Parts" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 "Steelband Engine Room Parts" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-001 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet is perfect for all new steelband directors, those who want some printable material for their engine room, those who want to have a quick style reference to refresh their memory...etc. This is your guide to stylistically appropriate Engine Room Parts for your steelband. While it won't teach you how to play each instrument, it will tell you what to play, a little about the style, some other suggested rhythms...etc. This packet contains written Engine room parts for the following styles: List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "Steelband Holiday Collection: Volume 1" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $65.00Price$60.00 "Steelband Holiday Collection: Volume 1" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-045 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This collection includes arrangements of 5 popular holiday tunes. 3 of the tunes are associated with Christmas: Deck The Halls, Jolly Old St Nicholas, and Silent Night. There is 1 classic Chanukah tune: I Have a Little Dreidel, and there is even a tune typically associated with New Years Eve: Auld Lang Syne. This collection will give your band some options when heading into the holiday season. The arrangements are short and sweet but include some fresh harmonies and familiar steelband styles. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $60 for all 5, that's $12 per chart!! List Price: $65.00Price$60.00 Add to cart "Steelband Learning Pack" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $40.00Price$25.00 "Steelband Learning Pack" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-007 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)- References, Guides, Handouts, and VisualsThis pack contains all of the informational-based portions of "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit". The info in this pack will equip you from zero knowledge to rehearsal-ready. Of course there will be more to learn but the goal is to get you up and running quickly and without the time and effort spent searching high and low for the info you need. As the director, you can start strong on day one or refresh/supplement your materials with printables, graphics, and info. Read below for more info on each resource: List Price: $40.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "Steelband Rhythm Reading Packet" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $35.00Price$30.00 "Steelband Rhythm Reading Packet" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-005 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet contains 3 levels of full-band rhythm reading material. Each level has 26 one measure rhythms (assigned rehearsal marks A-Z). Here are some of the potential uses of this packet: List Price: $35.00Price$30.00 Add to cart "Stir It Up " by Bob Marley List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Stir It Up " by Bob Marley ISBN SDKK-013 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)Your band will have a good time this one. Bob Marley’s tune bounces along with a Bass line that won’t take long to learn and lines that flow throughout. This is a good change-of-pace tune for your next concert. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie ISBN SDBS-0124 Difficulty: Medium (ggreat for high school and beginning college steel bands)A Lionel Richie classic tune that is set to a spunky reggae feel. This tune will get the listeners groovin' in no time. Key of F major List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Teaching Tamboo Bamboo with Performance Parts" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $20.00Price$15.00 "Teaching Tamboo Bamboo with Performance Parts" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-002 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This resource is a great way to get started teaching your band about Tamboo Bamboo. This important part of steelpan history, in my opinion, is best taught interactively. This guide provides you with: List Price: $20.00Price$15.00 Add to cart "Teaching Tunes by Rote" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $25.00Price$20.00 "Teaching Tunes by Rote" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This packet is a reference on how to select, arrange, and teach a tune by rote plus 3 print-ready rote cheat sheets for directors to start their band into rote learning immediately. Rote teaching is a huge part of how steelpan music was and is played in Trinidad. Now you have some tools to be able to give your band a bit of that experience. With 3 tunes ready to go you can start today. Tunes: Soca Evelyn by Lord Kitchner, Day-O by Harry Belafonte, and Obeah Wedding by Might Sparrow. List Price: $25.00Price$20.00 Add to cart "The Blue Cheese Blues" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Blue Cheese Blues" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-041 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)The Blue Cheese Blues is a mid tempo 12 Bar Blues that is perfect for teaching about the Blues, 12 bar blues, improvisation, tag endings, and call & response. The opening 12 bars is the foundation of the whole piece but it also gives multiple phrases to solo over (w/ a major blues scale for a jumping off point), and a call and response phrase in the middle to shake things up a bit and challenge the readers a bit more. This piece should be disassembled and reassembled as needed for your band or teaching needs. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "The Hadley Way" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "The Hadley Way" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-002 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"The Hadley Way" is a representation of my school, DuPont Hadley Middle School. We are based in Nashville, TN, so it was appropriate that the style would be country. Letter C is a feature for the triple guitars and bass pans based on a descending arpeggio. Letter A features a harmony created by each steel pan starting on a different part of the descending G major scale. At letter E, be sure to focus on the cascading effect created by the rolls and descending scales. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 "The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-006 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"The Middle School Steel Band Series 01" is a collection of five engaging and educational steel band charts specifically composed for middle school-aged students. Each chart is about 2-3 minutes long. This collection offers multiple styles of music, including Country, Chorale, Reggae, and Soca. Each chart follows a simple structure that makes learning the music easy and accessible even for newer steel bands. This is a great resource for new steel band directors in the Middle School setting. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $50 for all 5, that's $10 per chart!! List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 Add to cart "The Middle School Steel Band Series 02" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 "The Middle School Steel Band Series 02" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-018 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)This collection of music is the second volume in my Middle School Steel Band Series. This volume focuses on different styles of music. All of the music in this pack was written with the middle school student in mind. These charts are great for the classroom and the performance hall. You may make changes to the music and adapt it to your steel band. I hope this resource is valuable to middle school steel band programs. This Bundle Pack is priced at just $50 for all 5, that's $10 per chart!! List Price: $55.00Price$50.00 Add to cart "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $210.00Price$125.00 "The New Steelband Director's Survival Kit" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-006 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)If you are a new steelband director hoping to start off strong or an experienced director hoping for more ready-made resources, this is the book for you! This collection of resources should help in many different ways including: building your confidence, saving you from spending time creating your own resources from scratch, saving you time from researching answers in multiple places to get started, providing insight into various aspects of steelpan, providing you with daily warmup and music fundamentals materials, giving techniques and tips to help you navigate successful rehearsals, providing resources to teach engine room/tunes by rote/tamboo bamboo, and 6 compositions for early steelband. The ways that you utilize these materials are only limited by your imagination! List Price: $210.00Price$125.00 Add to cart "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News ISBN SDMB3-007 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)An energetic and driving arrangement with a steel-sound of the ear-worm from one of Hollywood's greatest films. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner " by John Stafford Smith List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Star Spangled Banner " by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDDS-009 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)The Star-Spangled Banner was composed in 1814 by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. Its powerful lyrics and memorable melody have made it one of the most enduring symbols of the United States. This steel band arrangement brings the anthem to life with the rich, resonant sound of the steel pan ensemble while maintaining the dignity and respect deserved by this national treasure. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner" by John Stafford Smith List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "The Star Spangled Banner" by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDMD-0043 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)You definitely need the national anthem in your repertoire! Here is a solo double second version. A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "The Star Spangled Banner-Duo" by John Stafford Smith List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "The Star Spangled Banner-Duo" by John Stafford Smith ISBN SDMD-0044 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)You definitely need the national anthem in your repertoire! Here is a duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds. A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "The Turn" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "The Turn" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-052 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This slippery soca keeps the audience guessing on what is coming next. Your band will love the interesting harmonies and low pan features. The Bridge section gives a great contrast and a variation on the main melody theme before launching you back in for the rise to the end. Inspired by the "turn" in poker, which can change things suddenly, I hope this piece keeps you on your toes. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "There is Power in the Blood" by Lewis E. Jones List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "There is Power in the Blood" by Lewis E. Jones ISBN SDBS-0104 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school and beginning college steel bands)This old-time gospel favorite will delight any audience anytime. The added horn section will add a new dimension to the steel drum sound. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Tranquill Porcupine" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Tranquill Porcupine" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-042 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Tranquill Porcupine is a Classical Waltz for steelband. NOTE*** there is no drumset or engine room for this piece as it is meant to highlight the tones and textures of the steelpans alone. The important thing to note pedagogically is that the Tenor and Double Seconds are always in support of eachother and the Basses and Triples make up the bass/chording components throughout. This is written in the style of a simple piano piece but split across the 4 voices of the band. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke ISBN SDMD-0045 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Add this to your wedding repertoire! This piece, also known as "The Prince of Denmark's March," is classic processional music for the wedding party and bride. Arranged for solo tenor (or double seconds). A duo version for Tenor and Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart "Trumpet Voluntary-Duo" by Jeremiah Clarke List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 "Trumpet Voluntary-Duo" by Jeremiah Clarke ISBN SDMD-0046 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Add this to your wedding repertoire! This piece, also known as "The Prince of Denmark's March," is classic processional music for the wedding party and bride. Arranged for tenor and double seconds duo. A solo version for Tenor or Double Seconds is also available. List Price: $22.00Price$17.00 Add to cart « Previous1234Next »
