Sample Mp3 

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This Composition works well for the following ensemble setups:

Full Steel Band

Steel Band w/out a drummer (use provided Backing Tracks)

Steel Band w/out a drummer or engine room(use provided Backing Tracks)

Steel Band w/out Bass Pans (use provided Backing Tracks or sub in Bass Guitar)

Steel Pan Combo Setup (EX: Tenor, DS, Bass Guitar, and Drums...etc)

Mixed Ensemble (EX: some pans w/ some band instruments, guitar/piano, percussion...etc)

Many many other variations!

Thank you for checking out this piece! I hope it serves you and your band well!

"Cruise The Eerie Canal" is a bit spooky and would make for a great Fall/Halloween piece but is really appropriate for any time of year from a musical standpoint. It contains very simple rhythms which makes this a great piece for very early bands to learn. The passing of quarter notes through the sections in part 3 makes for a great teaching moment and challenge while remaining accessible to beginners. The standard notation score ensures accuracy and consistency when teaching rhythms and octaves. The non-standard(symbolic) music notation of the individual parts should allow bands who struggle with music reading skills to access this piece very easily without being overwhelmed. This is part of the Flex Series: Flexible Compositions for Flexible Steelband(more info below). With Rehearsal Numbers, Colored Shapes, or song structure terms you have the choice to hold up fingers to call a section, say or hand signal with shapes, call out colors, or call out the song form to organize the structure in real time with your band. This piece is perfect for someone with a steelband full of less experienced readers or someone who is leading a steelband experience for people with limited musical understanding.

A Note from Jordan: "I wrote this piece as a follow-up to the piece Calc-You-Later which was written to address the needs of my younger steelband (8-11yrs old). The first rehearsal with them showed me immediately that almost none of them had any music reading skills and absolutely none of them had any pan experience. Calc-You-Later was a big hit with them and the format worked so well that I wrote this piece which has a bit more musical character to it. The students loved the purposeful dissonance of the rolls and we spent lots of time talking about tension and release with this. They loved the soli section where each section passes descending quarter notes and you could watch the excitement build up into the following section each time. I hope you and your band enjoy this piece as well as my band did!"

This composition is part of the Flex Series: Flexible Compositions for Flexible Steel Band.  It includes:

- Backing Tracks for Drums/Engine Room/Bass/Full band Minus Tenor 

- Open Instrumentation w/ parts for Guitar/Piano 

- Notated conga and drum set parts 

- Easy to rearrange with color coded/numbered sections 

- Plan ahead with the provided “Your Arrangement” Box or Call out the form in real time by saying the section number or use backing tracks w/ "Suggested Arrangement" box.

- All backing tracks will be sent to you once you've made a purchase. You can also access play-along videos with all backing track options at this YouTube link. These will make rehearsal much simpler if shown on screen for your band.

Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)

Instrumentation: tenor/double second/triple guitar-cello/bass/drum set/engine room

ITEM ID : SDJM2-024