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 "Firecracker" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Firecracker" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-032 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Firecracker is a 3.5-minute rock piece that students will love for its low pan feature and steady driving feel. After watching a local fireworks display on the river I wrote this to try to capture the feeling of awe, lift, and simple cool factor. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Gentle Winds" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Gentle Winds" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-013 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Gentle Winds" is another chorale chart that features only the steel band. There is no drum set part for this piece. Gentle Winds was written as a reminder of my time playing in the Laborie Steel Band in St. Lucia. This chart features very soft dynamics. This will challenge your students to control their dynamics as they play a melody and accompaniment parts. This is also a great chart for teaching roll speeds with soft dynamics. The chart fades out to nothing as it resolves. This is a great opportunity to teach students how to release off of a roll. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Groove en Fuego" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Groove en Fuego" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-014 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Groove en Fuego" is a salsa chart. Salsa is present in many Latin American countries. The steel band is layered in to create a dramatic entrance. This flows into a strong melody. The groove section at C is a montuno groove. This is typically played on a piano, but it is featured in the triple guitar and double second section with a bass accompaniment. Pay close attention to the spacing of the eighth notes in C. Groove en Fuego is a great chart to start or end a concert with your steel band. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Groovin' For Ghana" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Groovin' For Ghana" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-017 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)This arrangement has a funky 3/4 groove that was inspired by West African Highlife music. Welcome to the land of polyrhythms! The melody and accompaniments are mostly diatonic, but the rhythms will be quite challenging – and fun to play! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Gymnopédie No. 1" by Erik Satie List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Gymnopédie No. 1" by Erik Satie ISBN SDDS-006 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)Composed in 1888 by French composer Erik Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1 is celebrated for its simplicity, spacious pacing, and reflective character. The work’s gentle harmonic motion and steady pulse create a calm, meditative atmosphere, encouraging performers to prioritize tone quality, balance, and expressive sensitivity over technical display. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Haitian Melody" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Haitian Melody" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-028 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)This beautiful melody is played simply in unison by the full band at the start of the arrangement. After the rhythmic feel is set-up, the melody is played again by tenors and double tenors with the more energetic accompaniment. This is followed by a call and response section and then a section highlighting the bass – with rhythmic hits from the rest of the band. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Hawaiian Rainbow" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Hawaiian Rainbow" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-029 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Hawaiian Rainbow is a reggae version of the famous song, Over The Rainbow. This arrangement was inspired by the beautiful video/recording of the Hawaiian singer, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. There are counter-melodies for double 2nds and guitars pans to play, and a fun breakdown toward the end that starts with just single tenors and drums, then builds up to a dynamic ending. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Human Nature" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Human Nature" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0171 One of MJ's best tunes is now available for your library of tune. Key of G major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "In This Moment" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "In This Moment" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0161 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This could be your first song with a new steel drum band. Lots of unison rhythms and a semi-challenging bridge set to a nice samba beat. Key of D minor. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Island Shores" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Island Shores" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0170 This is a song dedicated to my daughter. Her band name is "Island Shores" website: www.islandshoresmusic.comIt moves pretty quickly and has very easy chords to solo over. Key of G Price$8.50 Add to cart "Madeline's Canon" by Madeline Marston List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Madeline's Canon" by Madeline Marston ISBN SDMM3-001 Difficulty: Medium (great for for high school & college steel bands)A canon which establishes a chord progression and theme, and embellishes them in all voices throughout the song. This piece is beautiful and hymnal in feel, and increasingly builds energy by layering melodies across voices and modulating up by a half step, twice. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Major & Minor Scales for Steelband" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 "Major & Minor Scales for Steelband" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-004 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)All 12 Major and natural minor scales written for the whole steelband to practice together with drum set grooves and engine room parts. Each of the 12 keys has a half note, quarter note, and eighth note exercise with a rehearsal mark above each to easily start and stop to fit the needs of your band. Generally, these scales have been written to utilize the lower range of the pans. When an octave shift is required of more than one voice of the band they have been written to shift at the same time to simplify the rehearsal and explanations. Of course the octaves can be swapped as needed to accommodate your band and the needs of your rehearsal. These can be utilized as a daily warmup, a tool to prep for the key center(s) of a song, a building block for improvisation, a theory study, a playing test, and much more. List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "One Happy Island" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "One Happy Island" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0158 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)One Happy Island is my tribute to the island of Aruba (known as 1 Happy Island). A great tune for a beginning steel drum band. A heavy reggae feel adds interest and allows some filling for the set player. Key of C. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Pan Fried" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Pan Fried" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-018 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Pan Fried" is Latin jazz in a hip cha cha groove, alla Tito Puente. The intro is a montuno vamp followed by the bluesy 12 bar A section and 8 bar bridge. Section C and the two vamp sections (Intro and end) can be played as written or opened up for improvised solos. The vamps would be ideal for a timbale or conga solo. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "Party Time" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Party Time" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-030 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Party Time is a medium fast calypso with four different sections; a verse, a bridge and a 2nd half in 2 parts that goes into a socca groove. The first part is sure to get some foot tappin’ going on, but people might be moved to get up and dance to the socca section! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Pedal To The Metal" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Pedal To The Metal" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-031 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Petal To The Metal has a driving tempo and some very modern-sounding harmonies. Except for the chromatic triplets at the end of section C, the notes are not hard to play. The arrangement builds to the final section with dynamic rhythmic hits and drums filling in. Fasten your seat belt! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "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 "Rockin' The Pans" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Rockin' The Pans" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-019 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Like many of the early Rock & Roll songs, Rockin' The Pans is a 12 bars blues. Steelbands are known for Calypso and Caribbean music, but after hearing this arrangement your audience will know the steelband sound is also perfect for Rock and Blues! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "Slippery" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Slippery" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-032 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Warning: this is NOT the typical Caribbean Music that steelbands usually play. However, it will get people tappin’ their feet. Slippery has a relentless drum groove and a hypnotic ostinato bassline. Melodies come and go, and some of the background parts grow in strength and “take over.” There is an eerie, mysterious vibe throughout; the tonality is closer to Mission Impossible than to Old Lady Walk a Mile. You’d better watch your step, it’s slippery! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "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 "Spring Break" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Spring Break" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0159 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A pretty easy introductory song that will make your steel band sound like pros with a nice soca feel. Key of F. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 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 "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 "Summer Breeze" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Summer Breeze" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0164 Seals and Crofts had a megahit with this classic tune in the 70s. F major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Sun Hat" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Sun Hat" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-021 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Sun Hat" has a happy socca groove and a jazzy chord progression that would get any concert off to a great start! The melodies contain a lot of chromatic notes, and would be a good challenge for a band that is used to playing mostly diatonic music. All sections have fun parts to play and carry the melodies at different points in the arrangement. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Taco Taco" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Taco Taco" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-033 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Taco Taco is a samba that was written using the chord progression from a famous Brazilian Choro, Tico Tico. The 32 measure form is C minor for the first half and Eb major for the 2nd. All the parts are fun to play and there are many counter-melodies for double 2nd and guitar/cellos. The drums have a great groove to play and plenty of places to shine playing fills to set-up the band figures. 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 Best of Intentions" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "The Best of Intentions" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0157 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This song is great for beginning steel bands with similar rhythms and an easy bridge to let all pans play in unison. Key of F. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 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 « Previous123Next »
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 "Firecracker" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 "Firecracker" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-032 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)Firecracker is a 3.5-minute rock piece that students will love for its low pan feature and steady driving feel. After watching a local fireworks display on the river I wrote this to try to capture the feeling of awe, lift, and simple cool factor. List Price: $32.00Price$27.00 Add to cart "Gentle Winds" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Gentle Winds" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-013 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Gentle Winds" is another chorale chart that features only the steel band. There is no drum set part for this piece. Gentle Winds was written as a reminder of my time playing in the Laborie Steel Band in St. Lucia. This chart features very soft dynamics. This will challenge your students to control their dynamics as they play a melody and accompaniment parts. This is also a great chart for teaching roll speeds with soft dynamics. The chart fades out to nothing as it resolves. This is a great opportunity to teach students how to release off of a roll. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Groove en Fuego" by Nathaniel O'Neal List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Groove en Fuego" by Nathaniel O'Neal ISBN SDNO-014 Difficulty: Easy (great for middle school & beginning high school steel bands)"Groove en Fuego" is a salsa chart. Salsa is present in many Latin American countries. The steel band is layered in to create a dramatic entrance. This flows into a strong melody. The groove section at C is a montuno groove. This is typically played on a piano, but it is featured in the triple guitar and double second section with a bass accompaniment. Pay close attention to the spacing of the eighth notes in C. Groove en Fuego is a great chart to start or end a concert with your steel band. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Groovin' For Ghana" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Groovin' For Ghana" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-017 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)This arrangement has a funky 3/4 groove that was inspired by West African Highlife music. Welcome to the land of polyrhythms! The melody and accompaniments are mostly diatonic, but the rhythms will be quite challenging – and fun to play! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Gymnopédie No. 1" by Erik Satie List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Gymnopédie No. 1" by Erik Satie ISBN SDDS-006 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)Composed in 1888 by French composer Erik Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1 is celebrated for its simplicity, spacious pacing, and reflective character. The work’s gentle harmonic motion and steady pulse create a calm, meditative atmosphere, encouraging performers to prioritize tone quality, balance, and expressive sensitivity over technical display. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Haitian Melody" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Haitian Melody" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-028 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)This beautiful melody is played simply in unison by the full band at the start of the arrangement. After the rhythmic feel is set-up, the melody is played again by tenors and double tenors with the more energetic accompaniment. This is followed by a call and response section and then a section highlighting the bass – with rhythmic hits from the rest of the band. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Hawaiian Rainbow" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Hawaiian Rainbow" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-029 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Hawaiian Rainbow is a reggae version of the famous song, Over The Rainbow. This arrangement was inspired by the beautiful video/recording of the Hawaiian singer, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. There are counter-melodies for double 2nds and guitars pans to play, and a fun breakdown toward the end that starts with just single tenors and drums, then builds up to a dynamic ending. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Human Nature" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Human Nature" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0171 One of MJ's best tunes is now available for your library of tune. Key of G major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "In This Moment" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "In This Moment" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0161 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This could be your first song with a new steel drum band. Lots of unison rhythms and a semi-challenging bridge set to a nice samba beat. Key of D minor. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Island Shores" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Island Shores" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0170 This is a song dedicated to my daughter. Her band name is "Island Shores" website: www.islandshoresmusic.comIt moves pretty quickly and has very easy chords to solo over. Key of G Price$8.50 Add to cart "Madeline's Canon" by Madeline Marston List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Madeline's Canon" by Madeline Marston ISBN SDMM3-001 Difficulty: Medium (great for for high school & college steel bands)A canon which establishes a chord progression and theme, and embellishes them in all voices throughout the song. This piece is beautiful and hymnal in feel, and increasingly builds energy by layering melodies across voices and modulating up by a half step, twice. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Major & Minor Scales for Steelband" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 "Major & Minor Scales for Steelband" by Jordan Morrison ISBN ERJM2-004 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)All 12 Major and natural minor scales written for the whole steelband to practice together with drum set grooves and engine room parts. Each of the 12 keys has a half note, quarter note, and eighth note exercise with a rehearsal mark above each to easily start and stop to fit the needs of your band. Generally, these scales have been written to utilize the lower range of the pans. When an octave shift is required of more than one voice of the band they have been written to shift at the same time to simplify the rehearsal and explanations. Of course the octaves can be swapped as needed to accommodate your band and the needs of your rehearsal. These can be utilized as a daily warmup, a tool to prep for the key center(s) of a song, a building block for improvisation, a theory study, a playing test, and much more. List Price: $30.00Price$25.00 Add to cart "One Happy Island" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "One Happy Island" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0158 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)One Happy Island is my tribute to the island of Aruba (known as 1 Happy Island). A great tune for a beginning steel drum band. A heavy reggae feel adds interest and allows some filling for the set player. Key of C. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Pan Fried" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Pan Fried" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-018 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Pan Fried" is Latin jazz in a hip cha cha groove, alla Tito Puente. The intro is a montuno vamp followed by the bluesy 12 bar A section and 8 bar bridge. Section C and the two vamp sections (Intro and end) can be played as written or opened up for improvised solos. The vamps would be ideal for a timbale or conga solo. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "Party Time" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Party Time" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-030 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Party Time is a medium fast calypso with four different sections; a verse, a bridge and a 2nd half in 2 parts that goes into a socca groove. The first part is sure to get some foot tappin’ going on, but people might be moved to get up and dance to the socca section! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Pedal To The Metal" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Pedal To The Metal" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-031 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Petal To The Metal has a driving tempo and some very modern-sounding harmonies. Except for the chromatic triplets at the end of section C, the notes are not hard to play. The arrangement builds to the final section with dynamic rhythmic hits and drums filling in. Fasten your seat belt! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "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 "Rockin' The Pans" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Rockin' The Pans" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-019 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Like many of the early Rock & Roll songs, Rockin' The Pans is a 12 bars blues. Steelbands are known for Calypso and Caribbean music, but after hearing this arrangement your audience will know the steelband sound is also perfect for Rock and Blues! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "Slippery" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Slippery" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-032 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Warning: this is NOT the typical Caribbean Music that steelbands usually play. However, it will get people tappin’ their feet. Slippery has a relentless drum groove and a hypnotic ostinato bassline. Melodies come and go, and some of the background parts grow in strength and “take over.” There is an eerie, mysterious vibe throughout; the tonality is closer to Mission Impossible than to Old Lady Walk a Mile. You’d better watch your step, it’s slippery! List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 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 "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 "Spring Break" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Spring Break" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0159 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A pretty easy introductory song that will make your steel band sound like pros with a nice soca feel. Key of F. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 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 "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 "Summer Breeze" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Summer Breeze" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0164 Seals and Crofts had a megahit with this classic tune in the 70s. F major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Sun Hat" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Sun Hat" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-021 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Sun Hat" has a happy socca groove and a jazzy chord progression that would get any concert off to a great start! The melodies contain a lot of chromatic notes, and would be a good challenge for a band that is used to playing mostly diatonic music. All sections have fun parts to play and carry the melodies at different points in the arrangement. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Taco Taco" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Taco Taco" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-033 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school or college steel bands)Taco Taco is a samba that was written using the chord progression from a famous Brazilian Choro, Tico Tico. The 32 measure form is C minor for the first half and Eb major for the 2nd. All the parts are fun to play and there are many counter-melodies for double 2nd and guitar/cellos. The drums have a great groove to play and plenty of places to shine playing fills to set-up the band figures. 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 Best of Intentions" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "The Best of Intentions" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0157 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This song is great for beginning steel bands with similar rhythms and an easy bridge to let all pans play in unison. Key of F. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 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 « Previous123Next »
