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About our instrumental sheet music:
Instrumental parts come in these formats,
both in Acrobat and Finale files:
primary part: flute, oboe, sop. sax
secondary part: trumpet, clarinet, alto sax
secondary bass: trombone, bass clarinet, baritone sax
synth strings: for synthesizer, violin and cello
The primary and secondary parts
are in C,
Bb and sax formats.
Our instrumental parts are based
on our popular
HymnCharts arrangements. Take a look by downloading
the free HymnCharts arrangement of "All
Hail the Power."
 A note from arranger Don Chapman:
These are NOT "Camp Kirkland" -
type full orchestrations. Although Mr. Kirkland
is one of the finest church orchestrators
in Christian music, his arrangements work
best with a full ensemble. Who has a full
ensemble? Well, Super Church down the street
does, but I've always had an odd assortment,
like a flute, two trumpet and cello. The
last ministry I worked with had up to 18
instrumentalists at a time and I still had
to tweak the store bought orchestrations
to make them sound right.
I've developed a concept that
will work in
many situations. I believe in
building a
solid rhythm section (even just
keyboard
and acoustic guitar), providing
the "meat"
of the song, then adding other
orchestral
instrumental parts for color.
These instrumental
parts will not carry the arrangement
- that's
what your band is for!
I'm calling this instrumental
technique modular
orchestration. I have a primary part with a main theme, useful if you have a
single instrument (a flute or two, clarinet
or even trumpet.)
I also have a secondary, supporting part that would be suited for additional instruments
(clarinets, trumpet, trombone, sax, etc.)
All the parts are on one page,
so have fun
mixing and matching! If you have
a flute
and trumpet, put the flute on
primary and
the trumpet on secondary. If
you have a trombone
and 2 clarinets, put one clarinet
on primary,
one on treble clef secondary
and the trombone
on bass clef secondary. If your
players are
weak, put them all on one part
to build strength.
The synth strings part can be
given to an
additional keyboardist and string
players.
I love to have strings participate,
but intonation
is usually poor with the typical
few players
you'll find in a church setting.
A synth
string player fills out the sound
and keeps
the group in tune.
All parts will of course be available
as
Finale files (as well as Acrobat),
so you
can tweak, transpose and tailor
the musical
data to suit your needs.
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