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 "Roulette" by Yoichi Izawa List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Roulette" by Yoichi Izawa ISBN SDYI-002 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)This composition was written for my steelband, WAIWAI STEEL BAND, in 2015. With this song, I wanted everyone to form a circle, hold hands, and dance. I hope that this song will create a circle of joyful hearts with the performers and the audience. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima ISBN SDMB3-003 Difficulty: Medium/Hard (great for advanced high school, and college steel bands)This arrangement takes the high-energy jazzy pieces and gives it an equally jazzy rendition. "Sing, Sing, Sing" was first composed by Louis Prima before being performed by the "King of Swing" Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 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 "Somewhere" by Leonard Bernstein List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Somewhere" by Leonard Bernstein ISBN SDBS-0147 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This classic ballad from West Side Story will thrill listeners of all ages. Key of F major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Steel Band Music" by Aldwyn 'Lord Kitchener' Roberts List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Steel Band Music" by Aldwyn 'Lord Kitchener' Roberts ISBN SDKA-003 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college steel bands)This piece is a well known calypso from 1964 done by Lord Kitchener, dubbed the Grand Master of Calypso. The arrangement embodies the golden era of calypso music with traditional rhythms and melodies used. There is also an 'Open solos' section which provides a medium for improvisation or 'ramajay'. This piece is one that you surely want to add to any Calypso repertoire. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "steel" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 "steel" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-016 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college players)This solo was an accident turned into something unique. When working on a project in my music software I went to search for "steel" in the sound library to find the steel drum sound. Instead of typing in the search bar I accidently keytyped on the keyboard and played the main theme to the piece. Musically, steel is a chromatic shifts tonal centers fairly often for such a.... List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 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 "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 "Swingin' Strut" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$17.00 "Swingin' Strut" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-018 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college players)Di-Jam-adic is intended to become a series of duets based around having fun and sounding good. Hopefully some of that fun comes through the choices the players get to make along the way. Swingin’ Strut gives the players the chance to improvise or choose mini solos to play at certain places (more info below). The players can also choose their own.... List Price: $17.00Price$17.00 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 "Tears for U" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 "Tears for U" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-014 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college players)Tears for U was written as a lament for the War in Ukraine. This slowly unrolling piece gives the opportunity to show the expression possible on this beautiful a rich instrument. The underlying ostinato is warm and gives forward motion while the melody hangs heavily and provides shape. This solo will challenge any.... List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 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 Peanut Vendor" (El Manisero) by Moisés Simons List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "The Peanut Vendor" (El Manisero) by Moisés Simons ISBN SDMH2-001 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, & college steel bands)"The Peanut Vendor" is a Cuban son-pregón composed in 1930 which sold over a million copies of the sheet music and has been recorded more than 160 times. This faithful pan arrangement by Michael Huestis is very achievable by most ensembles and includes an open tenor pan solo which can be improvised by more advanced performers, but also includes a written-out solo for performers not comfortable with improvisation.... List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "The Way You Look Tonight" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "The Way You Look Tonight" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0167 A classic love ballad set to a new bossa nova feel will make a great addition to your show selection. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Tico Tico" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Tico Tico" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0156 What a great tune to challenge your pan chops with this Latin Classic! Key of D minor. Price$8.50 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 "Tiki Party" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Tiki Party" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0154 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A great beginning tune for any age. F major. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Tribute To Cal" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Tribute To Cal" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-022 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Tribute To Cal" is dedicated to vibes and timbale player Cal Tjader, who made numerous ground-breaking Latin Jazz recordings. The salsa/mambo groove and modern sounding harmonies are quite different from the usual socca/calypso; a great way to put some variety into a concert program while keeping it lively. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Tristezas" Traditional Cuban Bolero List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Tristezas" Traditional Cuban Bolero ISBN SDMH2-006 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)"Tristezas" is considered the first bolero ever written and contributed helped popularize the "trova" musical style in Cuba in the late 18th century. This pan arrangement by Michael Huestis is the perfect way to teach the classic bolero musical style to young students. The arrangement can be performed with a more traditional Cuban bolero percussion section (timbales,.... List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Una Paloma Blanca" by George Baker List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Una Paloma Blanca" by George Baker ISBN SDBS-0146 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This "White Dove" hit was released in 1975 and will be a hit with the audience. Key of C major changing to F major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Underneath the Mango Tree" by Brad Shores Price$5.50 "Underneath the Mango Tree" by Brad Shores ISBN JJBS-032 Difficulty: EasyA very catchy tune that has 3 distinct sections. It includes the steel drum sheet music and play-along accompaniment tracks. There are.... Price$5.50 Add to cart "Vida Nueva" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Vida Nueva" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0150 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This Brad Shores original has a spicy samba feel and has two distinct sections in different modes. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Village Vibe " by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Village Vibe " by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0150 A Brad Shores original that really cooks! You will love playing this one and the audience will enjoy it as well. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Village Vibe" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Village Vibe" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0144 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A cool "vibe" song that is a great opener to a concert or performance. Key of C major. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Walking Down the Avenue" by David Singhaus List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Walking Down the Avenue" by David Singhaus ISBN SDDS-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)"Walking Down the Avenue" was written as part of a project I did while I was studying for my Master's degree at George Mason University. Our pan professor, Victor Provost, challenged my classmates and I to write short pieces for beginners and then we would perform them in class. This is the second of two projects done. This is a pedagogical piece used to introduce young students to Calypso music, the indigenous folk music of Trinidad and Tobago. The "Avenue" also refers to a very specific street in Trinidad and Tobago. The street in question is Aripita Ave, which is one of the main streets that the colorful Masquerade Bands parade down on Carnival Tuesday. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "We Are Young" by Fun ft Janelle Monáe List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "We Are Young" by Fun ft Janelle Monáe ISBN SDKA-004 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college steel bands)This song was done by American pop band 'Fun' featuring Janelle Monáe. It topped the Hot 100 airplay chart back in 2012. The musical make-up depicts moods of freedom and youthful bliss. Perfect for younger bands to add to a repertoire. This arrangement is fairly easy to play with a couple instances of tempo shifts and dynamic changes. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "We Sailed to Other Worlds" by Aaron Gage List Price: $77.00Price$67.00 "We Sailed to Other Worlds" by Aaron Gage ISBN SDAGA-005 Difficulty: Hard (great for advanced high school & college steel bands)This piece seeks to fuse the classical string orchestra setting with the contemporary pan sensemble. It seeks to bridge the gap between the nature of strings versus the nature of pans. The idea of the piece focuses on humanity's drive to seek and explore as wanderers. It also presents the opportunity for a large ensemble performance. List Price: $77.00Price$67.00 Add to cart "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" by Traditional Christmas Carol List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" by Traditional Christmas Carol ISBN SDMH2-011 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, & college steel bands)Michael Huestis has created a fun soca arrangement of this classic holiday favorite. Syncopated and full of energy, this chart includes a full engine room, bass pan or bass guitar options, and a written tenor pan solo. This is a great chart of the gigging band or as an opener or closer to your holiday concert. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "We've Got Rhythm" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "We've Got Rhythm" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-023 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"We've Got Rhythm" is a calypso based on the chord progression of George Gershwin's, I’ve Got Rhythm. The melody is a fun workout for the tenors and double tenors with rhythmic accents for the entire band. The drummer has a chance to shine with many fills in between unison phrases in the intro/interlude. Could be opened up for improvised solos. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "What Will We Say?" by Aaron Gage List Price: $67.00Price$57.00 "What Will We Say?" by Aaron Gage ISBN SDAGA-004 Difficulty: Medium/Hard (great for advanced high school & college steel bands)This dark work encompasses the nature of our world during the peak of COVID-19. It seeks to replicate the dark turmoil we all faced as a world where the future ahead was uncertain. The title derives itself from the idea that decades in the future, what will we as a society say when asked why we didn't do more to help each other? List Price: $67.00Price$57.00 Add to cart "Wonderful Tonight" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Wonderful Tonight" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0168 Eric Clapton's beautiful ballad is set to a soulful reggae beat for a sound that will be a favorite of the audience. Key of G major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer ISBN SDBS-0153 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)Leo Sayer's hit will transport listeners back to the mid-1970s. Key of G major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart « Previous123 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» New Items "Roulette" by Yoichi Izawa List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Roulette" by Yoichi Izawa ISBN SDYI-002 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)This composition was written for my steelband, WAIWAI STEEL BAND, in 2015. With this song, I wanted everyone to form a circle, hold hands, and dance. I hope that this song will create a circle of joyful hearts with the performers and the audience. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima ISBN SDMB3-003 Difficulty: Medium/Hard (great for advanced high school, and college steel bands)This arrangement takes the high-energy jazzy pieces and gives it an equally jazzy rendition. "Sing, Sing, Sing" was first composed by Louis Prima before being performed by the "King of Swing" Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 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 "Somewhere" by Leonard Bernstein List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Somewhere" by Leonard Bernstein ISBN SDBS-0147 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This classic ballad from West Side Story will thrill listeners of all ages. Key of F major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Steel Band Music" by Aldwyn 'Lord Kitchener' Roberts List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Steel Band Music" by Aldwyn 'Lord Kitchener' Roberts ISBN SDKA-003 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college steel bands)This piece is a well known calypso from 1964 done by Lord Kitchener, dubbed the Grand Master of Calypso. The arrangement embodies the golden era of calypso music with traditional rhythms and melodies used. There is also an 'Open solos' section which provides a medium for improvisation or 'ramajay'. This piece is one that you surely want to add to any Calypso repertoire. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "steel" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 "steel" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-016 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college players)This solo was an accident turned into something unique. When working on a project in my music software I went to search for "steel" in the sound library to find the steel drum sound. Instead of typing in the search bar I accidently keytyped on the keyboard and played the main theme to the piece. Musically, steel is a chromatic shifts tonal centers fairly often for such a.... List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 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 "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 "Swingin' Strut" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$17.00 "Swingin' Strut" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-018 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school & college players)Di-Jam-adic is intended to become a series of duets based around having fun and sounding good. Hopefully some of that fun comes through the choices the players get to make along the way. Swingin’ Strut gives the players the chance to improvise or choose mini solos to play at certain places (more info below). The players can also choose their own.... List Price: $17.00Price$17.00 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 "Tears for U" by Jordan Morrison List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 "Tears for U" by Jordan Morrison ISBN SDJM2-014 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college players)Tears for U was written as a lament for the War in Ukraine. This slowly unrolling piece gives the opportunity to show the expression possible on this beautiful a rich instrument. The underlying ostinato is warm and gives forward motion while the melody hangs heavily and provides shape. This solo will challenge any.... List Price: $17.00Price$12.00 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 Peanut Vendor" (El Manisero) by Moisés Simons List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "The Peanut Vendor" (El Manisero) by Moisés Simons ISBN SDMH2-001 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, & college steel bands)"The Peanut Vendor" is a Cuban son-pregón composed in 1930 which sold over a million copies of the sheet music and has been recorded more than 160 times. This faithful pan arrangement by Michael Huestis is very achievable by most ensembles and includes an open tenor pan solo which can be improvised by more advanced performers, but also includes a written-out solo for performers not comfortable with improvisation.... List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "The Way You Look Tonight" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "The Way You Look Tonight" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0167 A classic love ballad set to a new bossa nova feel will make a great addition to your show selection. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Tico Tico" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Tico Tico" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0156 What a great tune to challenge your pan chops with this Latin Classic! Key of D minor. Price$8.50 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 "Tiki Party" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Tiki Party" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0154 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A great beginning tune for any age. F major. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Tribute To Cal" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Tribute To Cal" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-022 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"Tribute To Cal" is dedicated to vibes and timbale player Cal Tjader, who made numerous ground-breaking Latin Jazz recordings. The salsa/mambo groove and modern sounding harmonies are quite different from the usual socca/calypso; a great way to put some variety into a concert program while keeping it lively. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Tristezas" Traditional Cuban Bolero List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "Tristezas" Traditional Cuban Bolero ISBN SDMH2-006 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school & college steel bands)"Tristezas" is considered the first bolero ever written and contributed helped popularize the "trova" musical style in Cuba in the late 18th century. This pan arrangement by Michael Huestis is the perfect way to teach the classic bolero musical style to young students. The arrangement can be performed with a more traditional Cuban bolero percussion section (timbales,.... List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "Una Paloma Blanca" by George Baker List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "Una Paloma Blanca" by George Baker ISBN SDBS-0146 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This "White Dove" hit was released in 1975 and will be a hit with the audience. Key of C major changing to F major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "Underneath the Mango Tree" by Brad Shores Price$5.50 "Underneath the Mango Tree" by Brad Shores ISBN JJBS-032 Difficulty: EasyA very catchy tune that has 3 distinct sections. It includes the steel drum sheet music and play-along accompaniment tracks. There are.... Price$5.50 Add to cart "Vida Nueva" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Vida Nueva" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0150 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)This Brad Shores original has a spicy samba feel and has two distinct sections in different modes. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Village Vibe " by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Village Vibe " by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0150 A Brad Shores original that really cooks! You will love playing this one and the audience will enjoy it as well. Price$8.50 Add to cart "Village Vibe" by Brad Shores List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Village Vibe" by Brad Shores ISBN SDBS-0144 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)A cool "vibe" song that is a great opener to a concert or performance. Key of C major. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "Walking Down the Avenue" by David Singhaus List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 "Walking Down the Avenue" by David Singhaus ISBN SDDS-003 Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and college steel bands)"Walking Down the Avenue" was written as part of a project I did while I was studying for my Master's degree at George Mason University. Our pan professor, Victor Provost, challenged my classmates and I to write short pieces for beginners and then we would perform them in class. This is the second of two projects done. This is a pedagogical piece used to introduce young students to Calypso music, the indigenous folk music of Trinidad and Tobago. The "Avenue" also refers to a very specific street in Trinidad and Tobago. The street in question is Aripita Ave, which is one of the main streets that the colorful Masquerade Bands parade down on Carnival Tuesday. List Price: $37.00Price$32.00 Add to cart "We Are Young" by Fun ft Janelle Monáe List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "We Are Young" by Fun ft Janelle Monáe ISBN SDKA-004 Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college steel bands)This song was done by American pop band 'Fun' featuring Janelle Monáe. It topped the Hot 100 airplay chart back in 2012. The musical make-up depicts moods of freedom and youthful bliss. Perfect for younger bands to add to a repertoire. This arrangement is fairly easy to play with a couple instances of tempo shifts and dynamic changes. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "We Sailed to Other Worlds" by Aaron Gage List Price: $77.00Price$67.00 "We Sailed to Other Worlds" by Aaron Gage ISBN SDAGA-005 Difficulty: Hard (great for advanced high school & college steel bands)This piece seeks to fuse the classical string orchestra setting with the contemporary pan sensemble. It seeks to bridge the gap between the nature of strings versus the nature of pans. The idea of the piece focuses on humanity's drive to seek and explore as wanderers. It also presents the opportunity for a large ensemble performance. List Price: $77.00Price$67.00 Add to cart "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" by Traditional Christmas Carol List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" by Traditional Christmas Carol ISBN SDMH2-011 Difficulty: Medium (great for junior high, high school, & college steel bands)Michael Huestis has created a fun soca arrangement of this classic holiday favorite. Syncopated and full of energy, this chart includes a full engine room, bass pan or bass guitar options, and a written tenor pan solo. This is a great chart of the gigging band or as an opener or closer to your holiday concert. List Price: $47.00Price$42.00 Add to cart "We've Got Rhythm" by Alan Bates List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "We've Got Rhythm" by Alan Bates ISBN SDAB-023 Difficulty: Medium (great for high school or college steel bands)"We've Got Rhythm" is a calypso based on the chord progression of George Gershwin's, I’ve Got Rhythm. The melody is a fun workout for the tenors and double tenors with rhythmic accents for the entire band. The drummer has a chance to shine with many fills in between unison phrases in the intro/interlude. Could be opened up for improvised solos. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart "What Will We Say?" by Aaron Gage List Price: $67.00Price$57.00 "What Will We Say?" by Aaron Gage ISBN SDAGA-004 Difficulty: Medium/Hard (great for advanced high school & college steel bands)This dark work encompasses the nature of our world during the peak of COVID-19. It seeks to replicate the dark turmoil we all faced as a world where the future ahead was uncertain. The title derives itself from the idea that decades in the future, what will we as a society say when asked why we didn't do more to help each other? List Price: $67.00Price$57.00 Add to cart "Wonderful Tonight" by Brad Shores Price$8.50 "Wonderful Tonight" by Brad Shores ISBN PABS-0168 Eric Clapton's beautiful ballad is set to a soulful reggae beat for a sound that will be a favorite of the audience. Key of G major. Price$8.50 Add to cart "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer ISBN SDBS-0153 Difficulty: Medium Easy (great for junior high, high school, and beginning college steel bands)Leo Sayer's hit will transport listeners back to the mid-1970s. Key of G major. List Price: $42.00Price$37.00 Add to cart « Previous123 Next »
