Members Area Demo
Here is a small sample of the members area of Project Band.
Warning! All parts must be sent individually by instrument to protect the arrangements being used unofficially.
WELCOME TO THE MEMBERS AREA OF PROJECT BAND
Please email me if I have not included a part for your type of instrument, or if the music is too high or too low for you, I can easily create another part.
Note to new members- Don’t panic!!! There are a lot of tracks here to get up to speed, the general feeling in the band is one of patience and fun.
Tracks and rehearsal order for the Winter 2024 Season
Your Town Franchise name: Set List of current season.
Easy list for extras at a concert– (Suggested easy list) Back to the Chicken Shack, Bad Guy, Boogie Funk, Chameleon, Comin Home Baby, C Jam Blues, Green Onions, Isn’t She Lovely, Just The Two of Us, Mercy Mercy Mercy, Night Boat to Cairo, One Step Beyond, Peter Gunn, Play That Funky Music, Put it Where You Want it, Summertime, The Chicken, Watermelon Man, Cold Duck Time, Isn’t She Lovely.
Watermelon Man (Easy)
Herbie Hancock (Chicago). Inspired by street vendors in Chicago who Herbie often saw selling watermelons.
Improvisation practise track for Watermelon Man
Cantaloupe Island Main Mix (Track Grading Hard)
Cantaloupe Island Part 2
Cantaloupe Island Part 3
Cantaloupe Island Part 4
Cantaloupe Island Part Bari/Trb
Cantaloupe Island improvisation track
Herbie Hanckock-1964 “Cantaloupe Island” is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock and recorded for his 1964 album Empyrean Isles[1] during his early years as one of the members of Miles Davis’ 1960s quintet. Hancock later recorded a jazz-funk fusion version of the track, as Cantelope Island, on his 1976 album Secrets.
Play That Funky Music (Intermediate)
Play That Funky Music Part 2
Play That Funky Music Part 3
Play That Funky Music Part 4
Play That Funky Music Part Bari/Trb
1976 Rob Parissi for Wild Cherry (Ohio). The song describe the predicament of the hard rock band adjusting to the disco era
Chameleon (Easy)
1973 Herbie Hancock (Chicago /NYC)
Chameleon solo practice track
Happy (Easy/Intermediate)
Happy Part 2
Happy Part 3
Happy Part 4
Happy Part Bari/Trb
2013 Pharell Williams (USA)
Improvisation practise track for Happy
Suggested improvisation licks for Happy in Bb and Eb
This is the full setlist, all with 5 rehearsal tracks each.
- Ain’t no Sunshine Any more (intermediate)
- Almost Like Being Love (easy)
- AP Funk (very easy)
- Autumn leaves (easy)
- Baby One More Time (easy)
- Baker Street (easy)
- Back to the Chicken Shack (very easy)
- Bad Guy (very easy)
- Black Orpheus (hard)
- Birdland (very hard)
- Blue Bossa (easy)
- Boogie Funk (very easy)
- Boom Boom (easy)
- Cantaloupe Island (intermediate)
- Caravan (very hard)
- Chameleon (easy)
- C Jam Blues (easy)
- Cold duck Time (easy)
- Comin Home Baby (very easy)
- Don’t Worry about a Thing (intermediate)
- God Rest You merry Bond
- Green Onions (very easy)
- Happy (intermediate)
- Hey Pachuco (intermediate)
- Highway to Hell (intermediate)
- I Put a Spell on You (very hard)
- I shot the sheriff (easy)
- I Wish (intermediate)
- Isn’t She Lovely (very easy)
- Jingle Bells (very easy)
- Jump (intermediate)
- Just The Two of Us (very easy)
- Let Me Entertain You (Easy)
- Live and Let Die (very hard)
- Mercy Mercy Mercy (easy)
- Moon Dance (easy)
- Moanin’ (easy)
- Mr PC (intermediate)
- Night Boat to Cairo (very easy)
- One Step Beyond (very easy)
- Off The Wall (very hard)
- Peter Gunn Henry Mancini (very easy)
- Pick up the Pieces (intermediate)
- Pink Panther (easy)
- Play That Funky Music (very easy)
- Put it Where You Want it (easy)
- Revelation (Hard
- September (intermediate)
- Sidewinder (intermediate)
- Sir Duke (very hard)
- Sister Sadie (intermediate)
- So What (easy)
- Summertime (very easy)
- Sunshine Day (very easy)
- Superstition (intermediate)
- Take on Me (intermediate)
- The Chicken (intermediate)
- The Lick (easy)
- Train Shuffle (very hard)
- Up Town Funk (very hard)
- Watermelon Man (very easy)
- Work Song (easy)