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READY, SET, GO! $50
14 short, fun and engaging tunes for training band. Learn the basics of counting and getting around the first 3 notes, then 5 notes of Bb major scale. Highlights include making crazy faces in time with the music, going "cray cray" on your instruments for crotchet lengths at a time and then counting in "Captain Rest-alot"!
zombie apocalypso $40
An extremely fun and creepy interactive song for training band, composed with year 4 student Red Tilly! The students loop a calypso melody whilst one-by-one turning into zombies at the conductors discretion and wandering through the audience. Great for school concerts and performances!
stinky but beautiful $40
This piece is simple but surprisingly beautiful. Let the students learn how to groove together, and reward them with getting to beatbox as a group!
space dragons $40
Composed with year 4 student Isaac Agnew, this is a work of epic proportions! Who in the band can play the loudest? Go for it in the middle section! Compete over softness in the first and last sections, and learn about D.C markings while you’re at it!
BANG! $40
Scare the audience with this easy but shocking tune! You even get the chance to “go cray cray” on your instruments! But don't play the last note before the conductor makes you wait in anticipation... Composed with year 4 student Darcy Foreman.
the gingerbread man can can! $40
A little Christmassy song, the Gingerbread Man dances the oom-pah gently around his gingerbread house.
spaghetti symphony $40
Why do we always use letters A, B and C to mark the sections in our sheet music? It would be way more fun to use "pizza" "pasta" and "vege hot dogs"! This entertaining piece has lyrics for the kids to say in their heads whilst playing, or which can be sung out loud. When played instrumentally it actually sounds quite pretty!
so pretty $40
This simple yet beautiful tune for beginner musicians is a good way to start thinking about dynamics and tuning. It also has room for improvised solos using the first 5 notes of Bb concert major scale or Bb concert pentatonic.
huntsman $40
A creepy song for beginners, dedicated to Australia's scariest yet most harmless spider! Includes extended techniques like mouthpiece honks, armclusters and whistling.
sugar overload! $40
What happens when you go to a party and eat too much sugar? Composed with Year 6 student Alexandra Deas, this piece is an interactive, slightly ridiculous song for beginner band! It includes some fun shouting moments (“Lolly Mania!”) and a chance for chaotic simultaneous improvisation before the surprise ending. A great way to get your training band students to get their eyes out of their music stands!
zombie monkeys $40
A hilarious and engaging tune for beginner musicians. Imitate zombie monkeys swinging from trees, scream in utter fright and challenge yourself with extremely soft and extremely loud dynamics!
al medina $40
A simple yet mysterious-sounding Arabic-inspired work which includes improvisation on the given scale. Beginner players can maintain the bass line motive (1-5-5-5) throughout the work and listen to the beautiful chords soar over them.
The ow song!! $30
Year 3 student Kate Handfield thinks we should spend more time empathising with our poor instruments, especially the ones that get banged on! Ow!
moths in the sleeping forest $30
Composed for Camdenville Public School, this scary piece is a good one to memorise as an ensemble and do without the sheet music. Why not hide around the room and play it?! Or play it in the dark?!
snowflake mountain $40
Introduce your training band students to 5/4 and 6/4 counting, in this gorgeous yet straight-forward piano/keyboard feature which goes from twinkly snowflakes in changing time signatures (with a steady counting pulse in the percussion) to a catchy 4/4 prog-rock ending. The piano solo is deceptively easy, only using the notes C, D, E, F and G in the solo moments of the intro and outro.