My Marching Band Template for the Community

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@FredGUnn, @LAE, @Vadian, and @benwiggy, I will be taken your feedback and applying it to the next version of my marching band template (which should be out within the next few weeks, if not, by the start of September!). I’m loving the feedback from the community! Speaking of my marching band template, here’s what will be added for the next version!

There will be a portrait version that still uses the Finale Maestro fonts. However, there will also be portrait and landscape versions that utilize Dorico’s default music and music text font, Bravura. There will also be PDFs of sample music to showcase what the template looks like with notes to the page. I’m currently in the midst of a different project, but don’t worry, the next version will be here ASAP! Some of the text frames, as mentioned by Fred, will be changed! I also might add a few surprises as well. I look forward to releasing the next version! I will be doing a quick arrangement of a song as well.

The song I’m choosing to arrange is Journey’s, “Don’t Stop Believin’”. That will also take some time to arrange on top of making all of the changes and creating different versions of the template as well!

Once again, thank you Fred, LAE, Stefan (AKA Vadian), and Ben for your incredible feedback! Despite me still being fairly new to Dorico (I’m a 2 year user come August or September), I’m still learning a lot about, in my opinion, the #1 music notation software. I cannot wait to see what everyone thinks of v2 of the Public Release when I share it! As I mentioned earlier in this message, my goal is to release the next version by the start of September.

However, if I don’t meet my deadline, please bear with me and wait patiently for me to release this! This will take a good amount of time to do everything that I’m wanting to do (I’m a one-man show, ha).

Thanks again for the support of my marching band template! It truly does mean a lot to me!

Sincerely,

TCB

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Or ArrangeMe, which at least won’t charge you hundreds of dollars for the ability to publish one arrangement for one year. I have not had a good time with Tresona.

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This looks FANTASTIC. Thank you for making this and putting it out there! I spent sometime this evening setting it up with my old Garritan COMB2 Instruments.

Question I have: I’m having trouble with the parts. Everything I write in the 1st&2nd Trombone line in the score, only shows up on the Trombone 2 Part. Also, anything I write on the Trombone 1 Part, does not show on the score at all. I tried messing with the voices and that didn’t seem to change anything. I had similar issues with the Trumpet section. Wondering if you or anyone else had a similar issue on their end.

Could just be me, I’m still learning this Dorico thing. Ha!

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Yes, looks like things aren’t quite wired up in the expected way in the brass section.

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It’s as Aaron says: everyone will run into the same issue, because that’s how the template is set up. If you go to Setup mode and select the Full score layout in the panel on the right, you’ll see that six players are not included in the score at all.

The template doesn’t make use of Dorico’s condensing feature. Instead, you need to write Tbn 1+2 manually on a single staff in the score, and then copy that music to the 1st and 2nd trombone players.

Doable, but IMO not ideal.

Have a look at the attached file, which shows a solution (for the trombones) that produces the desired staff label in the score while still using Dorico’s condensing feature.
trombones test.dorico (1.3 MB)
There are only two trombone players, displayed on one staff in the score and correctly routed to their individual part layouts.

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This will be fixed in the next version of my template! I’m working diligently right now to solve that issue! Don’t worry!

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The Glee TV show version of “Don’t Stop Believin’” is no longer copyrighted. I looked on Hal Leonard’s website on ways to get stuff published for free. They have a list of thousands of songs that a free to publish!

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Just so you’re aware, if you’re talking about this page, it indicates that these songs are “approved for publication on ArrangeMe” (emphasis added), and if you click through to the “Don’t Stop Believin’” entry, it contains a very clear copyright notice.

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It says approved on the main page. Over 500 people have uploaded an arrangement of that song. So, what’s the problem?

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It’s approved for publication on ArrangeMe. It’s not approved for publication anywhere else.

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I know that! I’m not showing off my entire arrangement. Not only that, I’ll be adding a very thick watermark to the first two pages of the score and to the individual part as well.

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Might be worth consulting an IP lawyer before you get sued.

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In the past, when I have made an arrangement of a song under copyright, I have had to pay for the privilege and only had use of the arrangement for the purpose in which it was made (i.e. performance by a specific group for which it was produced). Any other use was either prohibited or required a separate license. Simply because a piece is made available through a publisher doesn’t put the piece in Public Domain. I don’t know what licensing ArrangeMe has, or how much leeway they allow, but it is worth checking out with them. (Copyright violations can be expensive.)

Or, you can simply use something that is currently in public domain for demonstration purposes. (We’re all just trying to look out for you!)

And lest I forget, thank you for the hard work you are putting into creating this template — it is very appreciated.

— Jim

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I won’t add a sample piece then. Someone was just interested in seeing how music applied to the template would look like.

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Oh gosh! Add a sample! But use something that is public domain or for which you have explicit permission! :wink:

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I’ll do Mary Had a Little Lamb lol.

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Or, what I’ll do is arrange warm-ups for the band.

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I use Arrange Me because it allows me to write and submit legal arrangements of copyrighted songs-as long as that song is in their ‘Song Search’ library. There are a LOT of them :slightly_smiling_face:

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I guess that’s a good thing, if you are willing to give them the exclusive right to the sale and distribution of the arrangement — but you get 10% of the proceeds without the hassle and expense of licensing an arrangement through others means. :wink::grin:
— Jim

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It *is *a trade-off. When I was a church music director, it was a real hassle for me as an individual to get permission to arrange a copyrighted work. When I did, there were specific requirements and sometimes a fee required to make the arrangement. Hal Leonard through Arrange Me takes care of all that stuff, and my work is 'out there ’