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Bossa at its best! This chart is an accessible bossa nova that provides students with an introduction to one of the most well-known styles of Brazilian music. There is enough syncopation to be interesting but still playable by all. The open solo section...

Start your next concert with a powerful move! A perfect vehicle for teaching 16th-note rhythms, this funk chart has been carefully composed to make the rhythms easy to read and interpret. As is common in a lot of funk music, there is a good deal of...

With accessible range and rhythms well within young player’s comfort zone, your students will be confident in playing this bluesy swing style chart. Adequate repetition, with just enough subtle change, allows the band to lock in, find the pocket,...

Good times start here! The chart opens with just a snare drum playing back beats and the driving rock beat continues throughout. There are many opportunities for drum breaks. Some of these breaks have suggested fills written in while others do not...

Pass the Hot Sauce ignites an infectious “hot” Latin groove from the downbeat! Utilizing authentic, traditional rhythms and repetition, this chart allows your young band to lock in and turn up the heat! Your students will experience the...

It’s ok to be off! 1/3 Off is based upon the most common form of American jazz, the 12-bar blues. The chart’s harmonic structure uses only the last 8 bars of a 12-bar blues, hence the title—1/3 Off. The first 4 bars of a...

Strut your band’s stuff with this funky, New Orleans Second Line street beat chart. The piece begins quietly, but then the party really starts with all the wind players improvising collectively. The first statement of the melody will sure have your...

REFLECTIONS   Composed by Mark Camphouse   Resolutions has a double meaning embedded in its title: musical resolutions (dissonance resolving to consonance), and political resolutions as found in the words written by American patriot George...

Andrew Boysen, Jr. - Neil A. Kjos Music Company In Flanders Fields can be performed in two ways: with any wind soloist, narrator and band, or with vocal soloist (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and band. In the first version, the narrator...

This programmatic work by composer Ryan Nowlin depicts the long career of a music teacher, and the impression that the students can leave on one's character over many years.  

LET IT BEGIN   Composed by Brad Ciechomski   Appropriate for the beginning of a concert, Let It Begin gives the young concert band a solid piece of music that helps them to sound mature beyond their years. Carefully scored with ample doublings,...

LANDMARKS   Composed by Colin J. Brien   Landmarks depicts several areas of interest in and around the hometown of the commissioning school in Rochester New York. Evoking images of a bustling cityscape, a reverent memorial to veterans using...