Slap That Knee

SKU: HL.386806

ISBN 9781705155585. UPC: 196288023807. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Younger tenor-bass choirs will rock out to this bright folk-flavored knee-slapper that celebrates favorite country pastimes of camping, fishing, and delicious food! They will love the body percussion feature and the optional fiddle obbligato adds to the “way down low in Cedar Swamp” atmosphere.

SKU: KJ.WB352

UPC: 8402701689.

You Rock! is based on the familiar rock beat often heard at sporting events. It is composed in a traditional eight and twelve-bar blues progression. There are plenty of opportunities for the percussion section to shine and lots of hand-clapping and knee-slapping to hold the interest and enthusiasm of the entire band. A perfect encore selection! Tom Rudolph and Drew Shanefield are new composers to the Standard of Excellence In Concert series. Both composers are from Pennsylvania. Tom is the Director of Music for the School District of Haverford Township, where Drew is an instrumental music specialist.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SKU: AP.26793S

UPC: 038081299877. English.

Enjoy some mountain scenery with this solid arrangement that features the songs On Top of Old Smoky and She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain in true country style. Students and audiences will enjoy this knee-slapping, toe-tapping piece of Americana.

Correlates with Accent on Achievement Book 1, page 33. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

SKU: KJ.WB352F

You Rock! is based on the familiar rock beat often heard at sporting events. It is composed in a traditional eight and twelve-bar blues progression. There are plenty of opportunities for the percussion section to shine and lots of hand-clapping and knee-slapping to hold the interest and enthusiasm of the entire band. A perfect encore selection! Tom Rudolph and Drew Shanefield are new composers to the Standard of Excellence In Concert series. Both composers are from Pennsylvania. Tom is the Director of Music for the School District of Haverford Township, where Drew is an instrumental music specialist.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SKU: AP.43599

UPC: 038081491394. English. Jay Althouse; music by Jay Althouse.

Words inspired by and borrowed from traditional American folk songs are set to sprightly new music, resulting in a hand-clappin', knee-slappin', highly rhythmic original. Add the optional string bass and snare drum to bring out the folk dance feel. A good time in all voicings!

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.