Modern Band Music Assignment

I have a fairly large collection of scores of my favorite Band pieces that my Bands will never play. I use them to keep up score study chops, to figure out how I would teach potential problem spots, and to keep expanding my music brain.

A student came in one day and asked me why I kept the pieces in my office. We had a great conversation which led me to creating this assignment. Students have enjoyed looking at pieces that are harder than what our Bands can handle and have learned some music theory along the way!

I can send you a list of pieces that I have used if you are interested in knowing more if you don't have you own set of favorites.

I have found this works well for that emergency substitute lesson as well!