Sand Creek Bands - Links

Music Stores

• Graner
• Meeker Music
• Flesher Hinton Music in Denver but has good calendar and links
• The Woodwind Brasswind has great selection and prices
• JW Pepper Music Company vast catalog of sheet music. Can play recordings of most titles. Good place to find and listen to solo & ensemble music.

Drum Corps

• The Blue Devils
• Santa Clara Vangaurd
• The Cavaliers
• Phantom Regiment
• The Blue Knights

Organizations

• Colorado Band Masters
• Rocky Mountain Percussion Assoc.
• World Guard International
• Percussive Arts Society
• Rocky Mountain Music Alliance 

Colleges

• The Ohio State Univ.
• North Carolina Univ.
• Purdue Univ.
• Univ. of Northern Colorado
• Colorado State Univ.
• Univ. of Colorado
• Adams State College
• Lamont School of Music-DU
• Colorado Christian University
• Berklee College of Music

Percussion Links

• Vic Firth
• Pro Mark
• Remo
• Dynasty Drums
• Zildjian
• Sabian

Music Software Links

• Band In A Box This is an accompaniment program-great for jazz!!
• Sibelius Music This is a great place for sheet music-arrangements, originals, variety of instrumentations, excellent and most are FREE. You will have to download there SKORTCH program, but it's free too.
• Sibelius This is the music writing software which most schools and professionals use. We have it here at Sand Creek. They also have music theory and programs for young children.
• Finale Notepad This is a free music composition software program. Has limitations, but is free.
• Smart Music This is an accompaniment program with thousands of solos, excersises, and improvisation tools for making practice fun.

Music Organizations

• Colorado Springs Philharmonic
• United States Air Force Academy Band
• United States Marine Corps Band
• Pikes Peak Jazz and Swing Society
• CS Fine Arts Center

Other Cool Stuff

• In Tune Monthly Magazine
• Web Rhythms - Practice counting on this free web site
• Pandora - A great web site to listen to musicians - Just enter a jazz musician's name and it will play a performance by them and also suggest other musicians to listen to. FREE too!!
• Music Minus One - A great place to order CD's that are accompaniment CD's both with the solo instrument and without. A really fun way to practice solos and ensembles for all instruments and voices. Includes classical, jazz, rock , and pop. The web site has audio samples. Use code F22408 for a 10% discount.