Free Marching Arts Library

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Below is my entire collection of educational materials created over the last ten years of teaching in the marching arts. Yes, you read that correctly, all of it (good, bad, and ugly). To some, it may not seem like much, to others it may appear as a lifetime of work. Whatever you think, the truth is that all of the material available below was written with two things in mind: “will this teach my students something?” “will this satisfy me artistically in some way?” I came to love arranging and composing marching percussion material around fourteen. With a bootleg copy of Finale Allegro 2007, I was on my way to nowhere. Thousands of hours later, I can tell you I ended up nowhere just as “half-expected.” The best part is, I had a blast along the way so I don’t really care where I ended up. What I cared about the entire time—with each exercise, etude, you name it—was giving my students something fulfilling and subsequently their audiences something fulfilling likewise. Whether my ambitions were all that impactful, I don’t really know. Nonetheless, here we are with a heaping pile of PDFs, MP3s, and Finale Files all free to download and use as you please. No pay wall, no tracking the download metrics, just free sh**. Use it, abuse it, rewrite it, learn from it, ridicule it, question it, applaud it, do whatever you want with it. I don’t care.

My only request is this. If you download the material, please consider 1) filling out the “guest book” and 2) “buying me a coffee,” as starving app developers would say. It took me many years and a lot of sacrifice to make some of the things you’ll find below: especially the stuff near the end when I like to think I was “getting kinda good at this.” And if you’ve ever “tech-ed” at a high school in Vegas for those stellar hourly rates, or written a full show for a cheap, picky director, you’ll know none of this material made any car payments. So if you download my stuff pay whatever amount you feel is appropriate based on how valuable you think it is or will be. Or don’t, that’s fine too.

I’ve never been in this for money. I just want to share my music. Some of my intellectual property I will certainly hold for ransom out of respect for musicians market, to not undercut nor devalue the act of composing. However, its fair to say marching arts material lives in slightly different market. Should it? Probably not. Will someone take offense to this gesture? Probably. Regardless, here it all is, the bell is rung…rang? Yes, indeed wordy, but this is my honest take and one that I hope resonates with you. If it doesn’t, well, the least you could do is entertain my story for a second before you pillage a decade of my life’s work.

Have fun.
KB

P.S. sorry this isn’t laid out super beautifully with soundcloud playback and score previews like tapspace. It’s free, bite me. ♡

If you’re for some reason interested in my motivations for this, you can read that here.

Free Marching Arts Library

Coming soon is my entire library of marching percussion material. It’s free to plunder, but if you want to thank me with some dough, that’s cool too.

  • Below is my entire collection of educational materials created over the last ten years of teaching in the marching arts. Yes, you read that correctly, all of it (good, bad, and ugly). To some, it may not seem like much, to others it may appear as a lifetime of work. Whatever you think, the truth is that all of the material available below was written with two things in mind: “will this teach my students something?” “will this satisfy me artistically in some way?”

    I came to love arranging and composing marching percussion material around fourteen. With a bootleg copy of Finale Allegro 2007, I was on my way to nowhere. Thousands of hours later (and a legit copy of Finale), I can tell you I ended up nowhere just as “half-expected.” The best part is, I had a blast along the way so I don’t really care where I ended up.

    What I cared about the entire time—with each exercise, etude, you name it—was giving my students something fulfilling and subsequently their audiences something fulfilling likewise. Whether my ambitions were all that impactful, I don’t really know.

    Nonetheless, here we are with a heaping pile of PDFs, MP3s, and Finale Files all free to download and use as you please. No pay wall, no tracking the download metrics, just free sh**. Use it, abuse it, rewrite it, learn from it, ridicule it, question it, applaud it, do whatever you want with it. I don’t care.

    My only request is this. If you download the material, please consider 1) filling out the “guest book” and 2) “buying me a coffee,” as starving app developers would say. It took me many years and a lot of sacrifice to make some of the things you’ll find below: especially the stuff near the end when I like to think I was “getting kinda good at this.”

    And if you’ve ever tech-ed at a high school in Vegas for those stellar hourly rates, or written a full show for a cheap, picky director, you’ll know none of this material made any car payments. So if you download my stuff pay whatever amount you feel is appropriate based on how valuable you think it is or will be. Or don’t, that’s fine too.

    I’ve never been in this for money. I just want to share my music. Some of my intellectual property I will certainly hold for ransom out of respect for musicians market, to not undercut nor devalue the act of composing. However, its fair to say marching arts material lives in slightly different market. Should it? Probably not. Will someone take offense to this gesture? Probably. Regardless, here it is.

    Yes, indeed wordy, but this is my honest take and one that I hope resonates with you. If it doesn’t, well, the least you could do is entertain my story for a second before you pillage a decade of my life’s work.

    Have fun.

    KB