Rehearsal Schedule and PDFs of scales

Full Band – Tuesdays 7:00pm, Friends of the Carpenter site

Dixie Band – Wednesdays 7:00pm, 1100 W 43rd

Woodwinds Anonymous – After Full Band on 3rd Tuesday

Junior Band – 10:00am on Thursdays from May 29 to September 4 call 360-735-7806 for location and details

Scales

Our repertoire is mostly in the (concert) keys of Bb C D Eb F G A. These PDFs provide two octave scales and arpeggios.

• Bb Instruments
• C Instruments
• Eb Instruments
• F Instruments

Books

Band members should own these books with standard repertoire for community band. Each volume costs between $3 and $10. You should get the book for your instrument. Some come with separate books for first, second and third chair. Use your own judgment for chair choice or get the full set, which will cost less than $12.

• Accent on Achievement Book 2
• Patriotic Favorites published by Hal Leonard arranged by Michael Sweeney
• Americana Collection published by Hal Leonard and Rubank
• Marches of America arranged by Paul Lavendar pub Hal Leonard
• Christmas Carols for Band or Brass Choir arranged by G. E. Holmes and published by Rubank and Hal Leonard. We play 19 carols in the book starting with The First Noel and ending with O Sanctissima
• Christmas Time A book of Carols for Playing and Singing by Forrest L. Buchtel publisher Neil A. Kjos Music Co.
• Flutes can also order the Flute Descant book in addition to the regular book in this series – for the adventuresome or bored!
• Hymns for All from Shawnee Press - Print on demand and can take four weeks to arrive
• Book numbers for instruments:
• KE0091 Piano condensed score
• KE0092 C instrument
• KE0093 B Flat instrument
• KE 0094 E Flat book
• KE0095 F Book
• KE0096 Bass clef book

All of these are available through the great folks at River City Music, 13215 SE Mill Plain Blvd., 360-892-8061. If you are in Portland, Sheet Music Service 810 SE Sherman St., 503-222-9607

Additional Materials

To help adults review their skills, have a look at Stonewall Brigade Band and click on join. There you will find links to a series of review books that I put together. These include mostly hymn tunes, Stephen Foster songs, and folk songs, but they go into all keys and full range, with nothing faster than a quarter note.

These are a "re-visitation" of a series of beginner books from 50 years ago that have passed into public domain. I took out the hymn names (usually the first line of the hymn text) and replaced them with the tune name. Also took out "Good Morning To You" as it is now copyrighted.

Feel free to download these, print as many as you wish, and use them to help adults get going again. They are also excellent beginner band books.