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Why would you put this post in the "Clipart" section? Did I miss something?

As for stand tunes: Hal Leonard is a good source of fairly easy pop tunes, and such.

How about writing your own? I have found that convincing a teacher to do something that you are willing to invest time in goes a long way in convincing THEM to put time into it (meaning rehearsal time). If you go that way, keep it straight forward. As an arranger, the easier it is for the musician to read, the better chance you have of it staying in the book (meaning layout of the finished product).

When it comes to stand tunes they are relatively easy to write, it'll give you some experience that as a musician is priceless, and you can stay contemporary. You wont find a Hal Leonard arrangement of this weeks top 5 singles for pep band. You'll also be able to write to your bands strengths. If you have 37 Alto Horns and 3 Trumpets, your personal arrangement will suit that band far better than any canned music you'll find online.

Don't know what age group you are working with, but when I was in the band at Cal we had typically rehearsed ready to play at a moments notice:

10 or so "Cal Songs" (all the fightsongs, almamater, university hymms, etc)

the weeks half time show (typically 7 to 9 mins of music, could be anything from sousa to micheal jackson)

15 to 20 other tunes (from polka to latin disco to gershwin to AC/DC to Queen to the bangles to the beatles)

All these arragements (with a few exceptions) were done by students in the band. If someone had a good tune idea, they made an arragement of it, the student section leaders would run them down at their weekly rehearsal/meeting and ones that were good would get thrown in.

schlepporello wrote:

Onebaplayer wrote:How about writing your own?

There's an idea!
Herbie Hancock's "Rock-it" comes to mind.

A good loud short one is Rock That by Earth Wind and Fire.

straight up funk. a section of the song makes about a nice 25 second piece.

schlepporello wrote:

Onebaplayer wrote:How about writing your own?

There's an idea!
Herbie Hancock's "Rock-it" comes to mind.

Rock-It has been done a couple of times. Believe it or not, a Hal Leonard chart of it was pretty not bad.

I have a bunch...I directed the Boston College Pep Bands last year and arranged a bunch of popular hip-hop tunes...50 Cent, Jay Z, Outcast, etc...send me a pm & I'll send you the list...jobey

You might want to look at various video game soundtracks. A lot of it (especially music for older games) is very simple and easily arrangeable.

I arranged the music from the first level of Goldeneye 64 (Arkhangelks Dam, which I named "Arkhangelsk Damn") for a marching band. I even did the percussion part!

Somewhere on YouTube there are these 3 sousaphone players. Their lead guy is a really sturdy black guy. What they do isn’t insanely beautiful, but it is insanely funny and full of energy.

Klaus