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» Downloads» Sheet Music» Steel Drum Sheet Music» Educational Resources "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 "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 "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 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 "Strollin' In G Minor" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Strollin' In G Minor" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-020 Difficulty: Easy (great for elementary, junior high, or high school steel bands)This is an easy arrangement for a beginning band, great as a training piece. Much of the piece is unison and/or rhythmic unison. The melodies are simple, but the rock beat makes it fun to play. The drummer and percussion players have an easy but important part. Although it cad be used in a performance, I think of Strollin’ In G Minor as a practice piece to introduce beginners to counting through rests, navigating rehearsal letters, measure numbers and repeat signs. 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 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 "Tide Watching" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Tide Watching" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-019 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This composition is part of the Flex Series: Flexible Compositions for Flexible Steel Band. It includes:- Backing Tracks for Drums/Engine Room/Bass - Open Instrumentation w/ parts for Guitar/Piano - Notated engine room 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.YouTube Sample 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 "Turn Up De Heat" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Turn Up De Heat" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-004 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Turn Up De Heat" is a soca tune that focuses on typical soca rhythms. The double seconds and triple guitars have a consistent strumming pattern throughout the entire piece. The whole steel band can work on these rhythms together. The drum set uses a standard soca rhythm at Letter B and a reverse soca rhythm at Letter C. There are sixteenth notebased rhythms in the tenor line at Letter C. The pattern is repetitive and can be learned very quickly through rhythm exercises. Letter A and Letter F use the same phrases. I would recommend working on these parts together in rehearsal. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Waves" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Waves" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-043 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Waves is a 4+ minute dramatic piece in 5/4 time that is cinematic and progressive. This piece showcases the steelband in a different style and without a drum part or engine room. This piece is based on the 4 types of breaking waves in the ocean: Spilling, Plunging, Surging, and Collapsing. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Wild Winds" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Wild Winds" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-044 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Wild Winds is a driving Rock song for the steelband. The interesting harmonies and suspensions serve to keep the repeated material from losing interest. The call and response melodies and simple running 8th note section at letter C should prove to be simple to learn but involve some rehearsal to tighten up. With no rhythms past 8th notes and only a few distinct sections to learn this will be a band and crowd pleaser without months of work to pull off. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart « Previous12 Next »
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» Downloads» Sheet Music» Steel Drum Sheet Music» Educational Resources "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 "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 "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 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 "Strollin' In G Minor" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Strollin' In G Minor" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-020 Difficulty: Easy (great for elementary, junior high, or high school steel bands)This is an easy arrangement for a beginning band, great as a training piece. Much of the piece is unison and/or rhythmic unison. The melodies are simple, but the rock beat makes it fun to play. The drummer and percussion players have an easy but important part. Although it cad be used in a performance, I think of Strollin’ In G Minor as a practice piece to introduce beginners to counting through rests, navigating rehearsal letters, measure numbers and repeat signs. 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 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 "Tide Watching" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Tide Watching" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-019 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)This composition is part of the Flex Series: Flexible Compositions for Flexible Steel Band. It includes:- Backing Tracks for Drums/Engine Room/Bass - Open Instrumentation w/ parts for Guitar/Piano - Notated engine room 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.YouTube Sample 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 "Turn Up De Heat" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Turn Up De Heat" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-004 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Turn Up De Heat" is a soca tune that focuses on typical soca rhythms. The double seconds and triple guitars have a consistent strumming pattern throughout the entire piece. The whole steel band can work on these rhythms together. The drum set uses a standard soca rhythm at Letter B and a reverse soca rhythm at Letter C. There are sixteenth notebased rhythms in the tenor line at Letter C. The pattern is repetitive and can be learned very quickly through rhythm exercises. Letter A and Letter F use the same phrases. I would recommend working on these parts together in rehearsal. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Waves" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Waves" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-043 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Waves is a 4+ minute dramatic piece in 5/4 time that is cinematic and progressive. This piece showcases the steelband in a different style and without a drum part or engine room. This piece is based on the 4 types of breaking waves in the ocean: Spilling, Plunging, Surging, and Collapsing. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Wild Winds" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Wild Winds" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-044 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Wild Winds is a driving Rock song for the steelband. The interesting harmonies and suspensions serve to keep the repeated material from losing interest. The call and response melodies and simple running 8th note section at letter C should prove to be simple to learn but involve some rehearsal to tighten up. With no rhythms past 8th notes and only a few distinct sections to learn this will be a band and crowd pleaser without months of work to pull off. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart « Previous12 Next »
