soca/calypso
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Six Pieces for Beginning Steel Band
$100.00 Select optionsThis series was commissioned specifically to provide quality steel band music for beginning steel bands. The six pieces in this collection represent a variety of styles, composers and difficulty and can serve as an entire semester’s repertoire.
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Catch Me
$20.00 Select optionsThis lively calypso packs a punch! Through great voicing and effective stops, this danceable melody will please your audience.
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Hope
$20.00 Select optionsHope, written by composer, performer and educator Jeff Narell, weaves nicely between reggae and soca.
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Over The Rainbow
$40.00 Select optionsThis beautiful melody by Harold Arlen will be familiar to many in your audience, and thus a crowd-pleaser.
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Not a Care
$35.00 Select optionsThe melody is nice, easy and carefree.
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Carpe Diem
$35.00 Select optionsThis is a fun, high-energy calypso that will have the audience up on their
feet! I composed “Carpe Diem” during the time I had the Sons Of Steel
steel band. It was written with performance in mind with lots of room for
cool choreography, which the “Sons” were known for during our live
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Boo Boo Man
$35.00 Select optionsBoo Boo Man is a classic Lord Melody tune. This is a simple arrangement great for beginners!
Ranges:
Tenor: D4 – Bb5
Double Tenor: A3 – F5
Double Seconds: F3 – D5
Guitars: C3 – G4
Six Bass: C2 – Bb2Skill Level: Beginner
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Jean and Dinah
$35.00 Select optionsOriginally written as a jingle for a department store, Mighty Sparrow’s Jean and Dinah is a nice, easy laid back calypso perfect for beginning to intermediate bands.
Ranges:
Tenor: C4 – A5
Double Tenor: C4 – F5
Double Seconds: Bb3 – C5
Guitars: C3 – C4
Six Bass: Bb1 – Db3Skill Level: Beginner
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Last Train to San Fernando
$30.00 Select optionsThis was among the first recorded pieces to document a steel orchestra at work. The Woodbrook Invaders recorded it in 1950.
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Pagliacci
$40.00 Select optionsThis is an exciting adaptation from Leoncavallo’s most famous opera, Pagliacci or, “Clowns.”