Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1321460 Composed by Kathrine Kennicott Davis. Arranged by William R Parker III. Children,Christmas,Holiday. 3 pages. William Parker #909919. Published by William Parker (A0.1321460). This is a fun piece for Elementary School drums. Using the glockenspiel, resonance bells, boom whackers, hand drums, tambourine, and triangle, students will be able to work together to play a holiday classic at an acheiveable level! The piece is only 32 bars but can be easily modified to fit your needs. If you want it longer... repeat. If not, than play it as is. There is a spark in the eyes of students when they realize that they are working as a team to make a song come to life. Please enjoy!!

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.977040 Composed by Paul SanGregory. Contemporary. Score and parts. 18 pages. Distant Engraver Music #3539349. Published by Distant Engraver Music (A0.977040). (For this piece, both score and parts are included in a single PDF file.)This quietly beautiful music began as a simple piano piece in memory of the composer’s late wife. Because her ‘English’ name, Sansan, sounds like the number 33 in Mandarin Chinese, the piece is based on the numbers 3, 33 and various multiples of them. The numbers were used to shape all aspects of the music, but in performance the piece still flows simply and naturally. It is technically not difficult for performers, but they do need good ears for color and balance, and they must work carefully as an ensemble. Instrumentation:Perc. 1: vibraphone and crotales (or glockenspiel)Perc. 2: vibraphonePerc. 3: Marimba (with low C)

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.784338 Composed by Joshua Hauser. Instructional. Score and parts. 38 pages. Slide Ride #5288673. Published by Slide Ride (A0.784338). 1 Octave Scale Studies in 15+ keys for 4-part ensembles of like or mixed instruments If this is your first exposure to these scale studies, you are in for a treat! Donuts, if you make a mistake!The initial incarnation of these studies were written for trombone quartet and we would play them in the Tennessee Tech Trombone Choir with the challenge that whomever made the first mistake had to buy donuts for the rest of the ensemble. Since then I have brought that version to several clinics and warm up sessions. One time before I got to explain the title, a fellow trombone professor said, Oh, I get it! Don’t step in the holes!I only wish I had thought of that myself... Since we have one of the best donut shops in TN here in Cookeville, treating the studio to sugar coated goodies was always my intent.As with those initial exercises, you can vary these as much as you’d like.·     Choose a tempo.·     Choose a dynamic.·     Choose an articulation/style.One way I like to play these is to have one person be the model, playing the entire scale over and over while everyone else plays the fragmented versions. That helps everyone to keep on track and stay in time. Double or triple up the parts for ensemble cohesion with a larger group.Practice one key, gradually speeding it up to improve fluidity, or choose a variation and take it through all keys, playing version A, B, C, or D then skipping to play the same set in a new key.If you want an additional challenge, play them in different octaves or change the key. Play the F Major set in f minor (all forms), different modes, etc. Players really have to be on their toes to remember if they are playing melodic minor in the ascending or descending form! For jazz players, try swinging them in dorian or mixolydian modes.The variations are endless!If you are using these with transposing instruments, 1) is F Major in Concert Pitch, 2) is Bb Major in Concert pitch, and so on. When you reach a scale that is enharmonic for another key (Db/C#, Gb/F#, or Cb/B), they are presented in both keys for each instrument so Trumpets can play in Eb while the Flutes are playing in C# with similar examples for all keys.All Donut Etudes with the same volume number are compatible so you can play them in mixed quartets or large ensembles with one or more instruments/people on part 1 and a different instrument on part 2, etc. Since the quartets are all identical, conductors/coaches can use any of the scores to tell which part should be playing at what time. Once you have played a scale with one set of parts, everyone can rotate to a different part and play the same scales again!Enjoy!

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.942726 Composed by Frank Pugh. Standards. Score and parts. 24 pages. Frank Pugh #6018905. Published by Frank Pugh (A0.942726).  I wrote Nuevo-Nueve for an ensemble of nine new first-time percussion students.  Nuevo meaning new or different, and Nueve meaning nine, seemed to be a good title for the piece.  Going along with the concept of nine, the song is written in nine bar phrases and has a total of 99 measures as well.  It uses simple and repetitive patterns to introduce students to the instruments that are utilized in the piece.  Out of the nine students that I originally wrote it for, six were wind players and the other three had never read music.  They had great success with it (and a lot of fun, too!).     The first four parts are all listed as generic mallet parts, and all work pretty well with whatever mallet instruments that you have available.  Part 3 and 4 double each other, but part 4 is in bass clef.  They are written on the same sheet.  If you have the equipment for it, I recommend the following instrumentation: Part 1:  bells or marimba Part 2:  vibraphone Part 3:  marimba Part 4: (optional, bass clef, doubles part 3):  bass guitar, keyboard, or mallet controller Part 5:  hi-hat cymbal, suspended cymbal, mounted tambourine Part 6:  guiro, castanets, maracas, two pitched toms Part 7:  drum set Part 8:  suspended cymbal, china cymbal, splash cymbal, triangle Part 9:  concert bass drum, cabasaBe sure to check out my other small ensemble arrangements here on Sheet Music Plus, and thanks for taking a look!

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939357 Composed by Adam Grim. Concert,World. Score and parts. 15 pages. Adam B. Grim #2885497. Published by Adam B. Grim (A0.939357). Start Over Soca is a soca that features the quick hands of the lead players. Many notes are repeated to create a falling or rising effect. The moving bass line will surely sound solid and the cellos and double seconds will have a fun time with the short features they get in the transition sections of the piece. In the middle, there is a false ending, which starts the beginning over again and plays a modified finale (Hence the Start Over Soca). 

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939365 Composed by Adam Grim. Rock,World. Score and parts. 30 pages. Adam B. Grim #4780705. Published by Adam B. Grim (A0.939365). Steel Jam is a hard rockin' steel band chart that brings metal to the ensemble! I listen to metal and hard rock, and love steel band, so I figured the best way to combine them is to do this kind of piece. It involves a solo section (with a short written solo for a lead player if they do not want to improvise), and a soli bass section that really lays down the bass!I hope you enjoy!This is for a more experienced steel band!

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1023358 Composed by Blake P. McCabe. Contemporary. Score and parts. 3 pages. Blake P. McCabe #6491381. Published by Blake P. McCabe (A0.1023358). Drumline Cadence for a small drumline, high school level. The Bass Drum parts are simplified for 2 bass drums in a small drumline. They can be split for 4 bass drums.

Percussion Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.926229 Composed by Christian McNally. Contemporary. Score and parts. 15 pages. Christian McNally #33765. Published by Christian McNally (A0.926229). This is a piece for 10 players of varying abilities. A short bossa nova with a nice groove that gives players of a lower ability to play in an ensemble with a higher standard player. It has a small open section for players to take a solo should they wish and at the discretion of the conductor.

Percussion Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.984904 By Billy Vaughn. By Bert Kaempfert. Arranged by JohnBeale. Contemporary. Score and parts. 68 pages. John Beale #6442233. Published by John Beale (A0.984904). For over 40 years I have arranged music for my school's musicians to come together and perform in school concerts. They were mostly grades 1-3.  I tried to arrange the parts to be meaningful but at the same time maintaining an effective, complete and pleasing sound. I often arranged parts with individuals in mind. The piano part is there for support and filling in. Not a difficult piece and very repetitive and catchy. I have arranged this piece for a school orchestra made up of pupils of grades 1-3. I suggest a solo for the first 4 bars (I did with a recorder). At F there is a ‘jazz’ style solo. Choose your instrument. Once I did with a recorder. A second time with a trumpet. Beware you won’t get the tune out of your head!!

Percussion Ensemble - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767897 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Yvonne Johnson. Children,Folk,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 19 pages. Yvonne Johnson #2891245. Published by Yvonne Johnson (A0.767897). 2 well known traditional folk tunes arranged for Orff ensemble. The two pieces have been arranged to follow each other but they could also be played as separate pieces.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.958089 Arranged by David Moraga Jr. Contemporary. Score and parts. 51 pages. David Moraga Jr. #3396847. Published by David Moraga Jr. (A0.958089). There is another score that I have on here called Someone Watching Over Me and they are the same music but this is is a lot easier that that one because I don't want to discourage anyone for buying my music ( Middle School A Class ).

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.945646 Composed by Nancy J. Brammer. Christmas. Score and parts. 10 pages. Nancy Brammer #6064617. Published by Nancy Brammer (A0.945646). Love at Christmas is an arrangement for mostly tuned percussion including, Xylophone, Marimba, Piano and Sleigh Bells accompanied by Guitar. The words are included if they were needed for display during a program.  Or a singer could sing the melody along with the xylophone and marimba.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1024746 Composed by Mykola Leontovych. Arranged by Matthew Kimbley. Christmas,Concert. Score and parts. 21 pages. Matthew Kimbley #4855165. Published by Matthew Kimbley (A0.1024746). Carol of the Bells. When most people hear that, they think of handbells. But why not use a glockenspiel (also known as orchestral bells)? Matthew Kimbley, when arranging this popular Christmas carol, chose to do that very thing. Add a marimba, vibraphone, chimes, wind chimes, temple blocks, two triangles, sleigh bells, claves, and bass drum, and you have an exciting arrangement of Carol of the Bells for ten-player percussion ensemble.This piece is about three and a half minutes long, and is perfect for school functions and Christmas events. This piece can technically be played by as few as five percussionists, although it is intended for ten. It is an exciting start or finish to any concert, and is great for students and professionals alike. It is written so that it can be played at nearly any speed, so it can be adjusted based on how advanced the ensemble is.This piece is fun for the audience as well as the performers!This includes all individual parts. No conductor score is included.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939390 Composed by Adam Grim. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score and parts. 50 pages. Adam B. Grim #6210963. Published by Adam B. Grim (A0.939390). The COVID Awakening is a marimba quartet for two 5.0 octave instruments. This piece is inspired by minimalism and minimalist compositional techniques combined with layering found in West African drumming, though it is not the only source of this specific technique. It was written during the beginning of the summer of 2020, when the Coronavirus, COVID-19, had started its grips on the United States in the forms of illness, death, and economic and emotional distress. This piece reflects on these early feelings of quarantines and sheltering in place, and using the techniques listed above the listeners are pulled in to listen between the notes. These reflections are found not in the music itself, but is different with every listen. The listeners’ ears will venture as they wish, and make this piece new with every performance, even though the notes and rhythms never change. Instrumentation: Two 5.0 octave marimbas, though only one marimba needs to be the full range. Marimba 1 can be a much smaller instrument if necessary. I’d suggest using rubber/latex mallets. Unless the performance is in a reasonably dry hall, this articulation and tone benefit does wonders for this piece. Each player needs only 2 mallets.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.510466 Composed by Steven Richard Moncado. Contemporary. Score and parts. 21 pages. Steven Moncado #5302763. Published by Steven Moncado (A0.510466). As an hour goes by, emotions can carry on and adapt into something more. They develop and grow, sometimes returning over and over again with a new layer of anxiety or turmoil. This piece exudes just that in a not so typical way. .