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Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by Needing Ideas on 3/20/2025, 10:59 am

What are some of your favorite spring concert pieces for beginners? I'm looking for pieces that don't expose sections very much, preferably no split parts, and I would like to include a march on the program.

TIA!

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by Pretzel Guy on 3/24/2025, 12:08 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

Mechanical Monsters - Standridge
Star Wars - Strommen

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by Flutist on 3/23/2025, 6:09 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

Synergy March - Owens
Dragon Dance - Story

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by ob1knabe on 3/21/2025, 11:40 am, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

"Power Rock" is a go to for me. Crowds love it.

"Star Wars" by Strommen is good.

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by Well... on 3/21/2025, 9:16 am, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

One you can look at is "The Magnificent Five". Only uses the first five notes they learned.

This next one has split clarinet & trumpet parts...but the parts are usually only a third apart when they split, and the first parts are doubled with each other as are the second parts.
This one is called "First Time Out".

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by DesertJazz on 3/20/2025, 9:08 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

I needed a last minute switch for a piece for our non-varsity 1C JH group last month. I came across this piece, 'Base Camp March' that's VERY simple. There's one tricky spot right before a little woodwind moment that we've about decided is needing edited, but otherwise would be a very good first march for a beginning band I think!

I personally love Midnight Sky for a first lyrical song. Midnight Mission/Madness are good too, but Sky I think is Balmages greatest piece he's ever written to be honest. A lyrical piece at the Grade .5 level is impossible to write, but he did it!

Prehistoric Suite is an oldy, but a goodie that we do every now and then.

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by ETEX Flute on 3/20/2025, 8:50 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

We’ve been reading Alien invasion, Attack of the Garden Gnomes, and Fanfare on Ode to Joy.

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by Suggestion on 3/20/2025, 5:51 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

Robert W Smith has a bunch of Grade .5-1 stuff that may work.

Also look into Tyler Arcari.

Re: Beginner Spring Concert

Posted by 1A Beginners on 3/20/2025, 2:50 pm, in reply to "Beginner Spring Concert"

Bugler's Rule
Mechanical Monsters
Rock Attack
Creepy Crawlies

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