Marching Band Arrangements

[Atlas]

I've been working with my high school to arrange some stand music for football games. thus far i've arranged about 9 tunes and wanted to see what everyone thinks about them.

[Atlas]

Queen - "Another One Bites the Dust"

[Atlas]

Fox Fanfare Football - "Main Theme"

[Atlas]

D12 - "My Band" its really short

[Atlas]

White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"

[Atlas]

Slow Jamz

[Atlas]

Zelda - "Termina Field"

[Atlas]

The Hey Song

[Atlas]

Venga Boy - "We Like to Party"

[Atlas]

i know that you all wont check them all out but i would suggest listing to Fox Football Fanfare, We Like to Party, and Another One Bites the Dust

[jeaniesing]

Question.... you've ignored standard instrumentation in several cases. Is that for a specific purpose unique to your situation?

[Atlas]

standard instrumentation? what do you mean

[Atlas]

if you mean that not all the instruments are in every song, thats because in my band we have " Full Band Arrangements" and "Sectionals" the songs that lack some instruments like maybe the piccolo, flute, or tenor, or what ever is considered a sectional. the couple of songs that have all instruments are the full band arrangements. just as well, the midi's arent the best. i didnt use a midi squencer i just used Sibelius 2 to save the sheet music as a midi, thus sometimes the tuba will have every note being played or the french horn, or the trombone. I dont know why it happened but it did. sometimes the clarinet plays both its part and the sax part. again i dont know why. it just does. hope that can clear things up. if it doesnt tell me. by the way, im only 16 and a "soon-to-be" junior in high school. i havent had the honor of taking the adv. music classes like music notation and theory.

[jeaniesing]

that's exactly what I meant :)....

And does sibelius transpose the parts automatically for printing?

[Atlas]

well... its kinda like that. say that you write every part in Eb major meaning that every instrumet has 3 flats. then you hit a transpose key in the toolbar and it transposes it. so say you have a french horn, a trumpet, and a trombone, a Alto sax, and a Tenor Sax (all written in the Eb major ((not concert))) then you hit the transpose key, the key signature changes from 3 flats to (in order) Atlo - C major, Tenor - F major, Horn - Bb major, Trumpet - F major, and Trombone - Eb major. then you print. if your looking into buying Sibelius I would HIGHLY recommend it. it has a TON of awesome features.

[jeaniesing]

Sibelius sounds terrific!!.... Unfortunately I'm hooked on my old version of Cakewalk......

I assume the flute parts remain in Eflat (meaning that it is the concert key)?

I'm geeky enough to enjoy transposing on the fly..... I mean.. playing the sax parts on the trumpet or the horn parts on the sax.... Clarinet parts on the flute... whatEVer! :) :rolleyes2:... but we all have our thing, huh?

[ZelRiptha]

Coolness, but I may not get around to listening until next week...

[Atlas]

yeah the flute remains in the Eb. i personally havent learned all the transposing techniques from one instruments to another, so sibelius is my life saver.

[cavie]

cool arrangments i was feelin dat Slow Jams. i write music for Blk Showstyle bands like Southern University or Howard U and dats all we play Classic / Current R&B and Rap and few theme songs

[Atlas]

you wouldn't happen to have any midi files of the music you play or even sheet music, would you? im not big into r & b so i cant write any of out; my band however, loves that kinda stuff.

[cavie]

yea i have mroe stuff even sectional fanfares holla

Marchingcav is my AIM and YIM

[Sabby]

I have a lot of quality arrangements as well. I am a music education major at Florida A&M University and I arrange for my high school and various high schools in the city. Email me for samples.

[alejandro7]

WOW!! this is what i've been looking for.. i like slow jams

[Atlas]

thanks again alejandro7

[CyberCat]

Nice work, I agree with alejandro7, slowjamz is my fav too. :thumbsup:

[Atlas]

Thanks CyberCat, i just wished my director saw it that way...

[butterfras]

sibelius is great for doing this kinda stuff, e-mail me and maybe we can discuss arranging techniques. Do you ever start from a midi file and work from there or is it pure transcription?