VIRTUAL MARCHING BAND PERFORMANCE CURRICULUM

MAESTRO’S DREAM

An all-inclusive solution for directors seeking to create a unique performance opportunity for their students.

Ready-for-you performance

Maestro’s Dream is a unique production created to help marching bands continue learning and performing during COVID-19. Each element was expertly crafted by top designers and is free to license for a virtual marching band performance with Keep Making Music.

Maestro’s Dream includes:

Winds and Percussion Music

Wind Scores, Percussion Scores, beautifully-formated parts, .MP3’s, and Click Track to faciliate seamless learning.

Band Choreography

Get your band moving with exciting and achieveable choreography taught through a series of video tutorials.

Color Guard Choreography

Musically-Crafted choreography and equipment work for your colorguard, taught step-by-step by a master educator.

Repertoire

All source material was chosen from the public domain and reworked into a modern setting through pulse, feel, reharmonization, or surprise “twists.” Repertoire is designed to get easier the further it goes to ensure that directors have the appropriate time to achieve at a high level.

The Carnival of the Animals

Camille Saint-Saëns

Swan Lake

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Johann Sebastian Bach

Habanera

Georges Bizet

Magic Flute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lullaby

Johannes Brahms

Dies Irae

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ode to Joy

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sample Score

Wind Package Highlights

  • Wide variety of high quality music written to be exciting and engaging for students
  • Flexibly scoring allowing for multiple solos across all instruments
  • Constructed and paced for easily identifiable modules and units in the classroom setting
  • Public domain music requiring now licencing for recording or video production
  • Programmatic in nature so students always feel they are working on a production

Powerful visuals

Band Body

Band body crafted in a way that your students will learn and master valuable skills while keeping them physically active.

  • Designed for all levels 
  • Written with virtual “general effect” in mind
  • Transferrable to the field for in person use
  • Building blocks for teaching students basic vocabulary
  • Descriptions and demos
  • Opportunities for facial gestures
  • Modifiable for your program

Color Guard Choreography

Color guard choreography that gives your performers achievable routines to be performed as-is or used as a foundation for more complex work.

  • Designed for all levels
  • Driven by Visual Musicality 
  • Fully incorporates lower body qualities
  • Vocabulary infused Videos
  • Count by Count Breakdown of each phrase
  • Includes Flag, Rifle, and Dance portions
  • Stylistically varied to offer a variety of performance qualities
  • Easily modified/customizable to your program

Virtual Performance

Easy Instructions

Performers are given step-by-step instructions on how to easily record and submit their audio and video, which makes virtual music-making fun.

Refined Audio

Every submission will be analyzed, edited, and mastered to sound as clean, full, and exciting as possible.

Eye-Catching Video

Close-Ups, Section Shots, and Multi-Cams, Oh My! Every video is given a unique look to help tell your musical story.

Fast Turnaround

Our current turnaround time is around 10 days after receiving your submissions and we also have express turnaround options available, too!

Every virtual performance includes

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Click Track & Reference Audio

Performer Audio Instructions

Performer Video Instructions

Edited and Mastered Audio

Performance Video

Custom Video Thumbnail Graphic

Design Team

Reid Atkinson

Reid Atkinson

Wind Arranger

Hector Gil

Hector Gil

Percussion Designer

Zach Santos

Zach Santos

Band Choreography

Erin Kosman

Erin Kosman

Color Guard Designer