SKU: CF.CAS74
ISBN 9780825894756. UPC: 798408094751. 9 x 12 inches. Key: Ab minor.
Four on the floor funk tune for strings?! How cool is that! This piece grooves from start to finish containing true funk rhythms, challenging your students, but well worth the effort!.The title says it all. This riff-packed funk piece offers an exciting opportunity for students to explore the rhythms and sounds made famous by Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, and Earth, Wind and Fire. A sample solo is provided, but fea- tured soloists should improvise their own solos using either an A-minor pentatonic scale (A, C, D, E, G, A) or an A-blues scale (A, C, D, D?, E, G, A). While soloing, keep it simple and focus on creating short rhythmic riffs using two or three pitches, or choose a riff from the piece and embellish it. Drummers are encouraged to add to the written groove.
About Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series
This series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
Four on the floor funk tune for strings?! How cool is that! This piece grooves from start to finish containing true funk rhythms, challenging your students, but well worth the effort!.The title says it all. This riff-packed funk piece offers an exciting opportunity for students to explore the rhythms and sounds made famous by Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, and Earth, Wind and Fire. A sample solo is provided, but fea- tured soloists should improvise their own solos using either an A-minor pentatonic scale (A, C, D, E, G, A) or an A-blues scale (A, C, D, D≥, E, G, A). While soloing, keep it simple and focus on creating short rhythmic riffs using two or three pitches, or choose a riff from the piece and embellish it. Drummers are encouraged to add to the written groove.
Thi s series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
SKU: CF.CAS74F
ISBN 9780825895104. UPC: 798408095109. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: CL.HLD26
The complete daily and Sunday strips from Tom Batiuk’s wonderful Funky Winkerbean comic strip from 1972 thru 1974. You can see the development of the strips characters such as Funky, Crazy Harry, Bull, Harry L. Dinkle and all of the others as they work their way through the famed and fictional Westview High. Includes the details of how Tom Batiuk’s comic strip career got started. Tons of laughs in a beautiful hard board volume of 470 pages. A must for all Funky fans.
SKU: PR.416414310
ISBN 9781598064834. UPC: 680160603749. 9x12 inches.
Urban Sprawl grew directly from the composer's months-long search for a new home. In looking over many prospects, he began to wonder about the variety of home owners and their approaches to their wildly different dwellings, resulting in this funky, jazzy, kitschy, and hopefully fun ode, as he describes it. Duration: 6'30.After spending months looking, my wife and I bought a home in the suburbs. While looking, I increasingly became intrigued by the overall “funkyness†of the insides of a number of houses we were shown by our realtor. From the crazy wallpaper, to the downright hideous paint colors, to the do-it-yourself projects gone wrong, to the fresh smells of wacky tobacky, some of these homes were real “standouts.†After seeing so many of these homes, I began to imagine who these current homeowners were. I started picturing them moving about their homes, doing these crazy projects, and dancing a quirky new dance I called the “urban sprawl†(think Nixon dancing in “Nixon in Chinaâ€). Urban Sprawl is a 6½-minute funky, jazzy, kitschy, and hopefully fun ode to “Suburban Life†(which was the working title). The work was written for and premiered by Alarm Will Sound at the 201111 Mizzou New Music Summer.
SKU: KV.3612398
297mm x 210mm inches.
Grade 1 - 2The bestselling Funky Flute series shows young flautists everything they need to know, from the very basics of how to hold the flute, getting a good sound and how to read music, up to around Grade 4 standard. Heather Hammond's step-by-step approach is clearly presented and there are listening games, puzzles and quizzes to help keep pupils motivated. And naturally, it's packed with funky, fun-to-play pieces in Heather's inimitable style. Each pupil book comes with a CD of backing tracks which will enliven any lesson and encourage learning.
SKU: KV.3612265
Grade 1The bestselling Funky Flute series shows young flautists everything they need to know, from the very basics of how to hold the flute, getting a good sound and how to read music, up to around Grade 4 standard. Heather Hammond's step-by-step approach is clearly presented and there are listening games, puzzles and quizzes to help keep pupils motivated. And naturally, it's packed with funky, fun-to-play pieces in Heather's inimitable style. Each pupil book comes with a CD of backing tracks which will enliven any lesson and encourage learning.
SKU: AP.49968
ISBN 9781470658465. UPC: 038081576022. English.
Funky Penguins by Mike Collins-Dowden will bring some Antarctic fun to your next concert! An ice-cold bass line supports a bluesy melody with lots of slip-sliding slurs; all backed up by the percussion section playing a funky rock beat. Your audience will tap their flippers while waddling in the aisles! (2:10).
SKU: CL.032-4665-01
What do James Brown in a Santa Suit, this chart, and an Ugly Sweater party all have in common? They make Christmastime funky! Deck the Halls With All Sorts of Funky is nothing but holiday fun. Written so it works with reduced instrumentation, it also features each section of the group spreading holiday cheer that is fun for the band and for the audience! A guaranteed holiday favorite!
