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A powerful sound composition that will be a quick learn for the students. It is a good study in syncopation and a written key change. 1st trumpet's highest note is D. Only the first clarinets cross th...

This is a foot stomping rock song. It is an audience pleaser. The 1st clarinets play above the break. The 1st trumpet's highest note is D. This is a great tool for teaching syncopation.

A very easy rock style work for your first concert. The shortest rhythm is a quarter note. There is not a single eighth note except in the drum section. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C, and no c...

This is a Larry McKenna classic. It has a wonderful singing melody backed by real jazz harmonies. The beauty is it is so simple and easy to play. You'll love the sounds, the melody, and the last chord...

This is a great march for teaching your students to play 6/8 time. It is an easy march with eighth notes grouped into threes only. Clarinets do not cross the break. The first trumpet's highest note is...

This is NOT a swing version of this beautiful Christmas lullaby. Darrell Holt, a jazz musician, wrote this arrangement in a beautiful jazz ballad style with the harmonies you hear in the jazz standard...

This arrangement starts out like a jazz chorale with harmonies associated with a jazz composition. The middle section goes into a swing style, then returning to the jazz choral. Clarinets do not cros...

This arrangement opens in a jazz chorale the going to a swing middle section and returning to the jazz chorale. The clarinets do not cross the break, and the 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

Bob Lowden took the Quaker song and gave it a bit of a rock sound. It is very easy with a few rock style harmonies. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C. No clarinet crosses the break.

This is a great tool for teaching cut-time. It is a great sounding march, fun to play, and has a wonderfully energetic sound. The clarinets do not cross the break. 1st trumpet's highest note is D.

This is the perfect song for teaching 6/8 time. It is all very easy with eighth notes in groups of 3 only. No quarter/eighth rhythms, so it is easy to get the students to feel the triple meter. It is...

This composition is very easy and has a Renaissance sound to it. The trumpet's go to D only a couple of times. Mostly, the range for the 1st trumpet part is C and lower. Clarinets do not cross the bre...

This is a beautiful jazz ballad style of this traditional Irish tune. It is absolutely beautiful and would sound great with an older group. It is just that good. Larry has great voice leading so all...

Here is a great composition to bring spirit and life into your concert. And, this is a great tool for teaching syncopation. Only the 1st clarinets cross the break, and the 1st trumpet's highest note...

Lost River is a perfect introduction to beginning independence. It is not at all complicated. Some of the instruments answer back and some enter one bar after a different instrument started playing. T...

This is a great beginning band song. It is very easy, with only whole, half, and quarter notes, but with rock harmonies. No clarinet crosses the break, and the 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

This is an NMP classic. Donald Josuweit knows how to write great compositions while creating a great teaching aid for you, the band director. Clarinets do not cross the break. 1st trumpet's highest no...

There is a bit of a program to this song. Imagine a troubadour traveling through the countryside and comes upon a castle, seen first in the distant. As he travels closer, one can hear the sound of act...

This composition uses all the chords of the diatonic scale making it quite interesting and fun to play. The middle section is in minor so the students get to hear a minor key at an early age. This wo...

This is the perfect song to teach cut-time. Start conducting in 4, later switching to two without telling the students. Once the get the feel of the song you can explain the difference between common...