Home

Purchase Big Band charts in the Shop

Southern City Shout is the commissioned test piece for the Intermediate Stage Band division of 2018 South Australian ABODA band festival ABODA Festival Intermediate Stage Band test piece

Southern City Shout is an original Big Band piece for middle or high school (intermediate) level influenced heavily by Sammy Nestico’s work with Count Basie’s Orchestra.
The title, “Southern City Shout” makes reference to my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia and is a tip of the hat to Count Basie’s “Kansas City Shout” on their famous Chairman of the Board album.


Students go straight to the blog page here

  • Atlantic Street Band 1920's Traditional Dixieland Jazz
    Chris Weber is a brass player, composer/arranger, and educator based in Adelaide, South Australia and leads Adelaide's most vibrant New Orleans Dixieland jazz band, Atlantic Street Band

Yet another study at MIT showing how beneficial music lessons are for developing well-connected neural networks.

Every kid deserves the benefits of a super-charged brain. Think of the benefits to a country’s economy if every citizen ...

Some great trumpet videos to play along with

Andrea Giuffredi has some excellent playalong videos to incorporate into your practice routine. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgcsv3cyyOeLkBABlBZ-EPorA6XfsD50 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgcsv3cyyOfbyQ0uQ35xXfPth3tPtwjO https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgcsv3cyyOebP7ieIPA2bMnLCfiiUrWu https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgcsv3cyyOdaWBXsMg9eTi8zWx5Z1q0n https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgcsv3cyyOerhoGYkkNLhXs61vTQ7erV I have ...

Free DAW – Cakewalk

How do I download Cakewalk? Get BandLab Assistant here and install it.  From BandLab Assistant’s “Apps” tab, you’ll be able to install Cakewalk ...

Mindfulness for Teens

Here's a useful website about mindfulness for teens or teachers of teens ...

Remix Competitions

Kreasound has some remix competitions in various styles Metapop site has several remix competitions running Splice has some remix competitions ...

Lion Sleeps Tonight arranging task for Year 8

Download and install Musescore Download (and unzip) the two Musescore files: Lion Sleeps Parts Lion Sleeps Unzip both files into ...