Dozens of free PDF downloads for your ensemble. Music for junior bands, quintets, small ensembles and trumpeters.
PDF brass music for the early years of ensemble playing. From beginner pieces with 5 notes through to grade 3 standard.
Loads of tunes for your quintet to download and play - from classical favourites and trad melodies to jazz standards and marches.
Music for quartets, trios and dectets - all with lots of transpositions for maximum flexibility.
A large selection of arrangements, suitable for 4th to 1st section bands.
Including the Trumpet's Wedding Survival Kit, and the 101 Trumpet Method
Helping your training band to grow during the first months of playing.
25 easy pieces only using the first 5 to 9 notes, in four-part harmony.
8 traditional tunes for Brass Quintet from all four corners of the British Isles. Songs of love, loss and longing, dancing and, er, doing the laundry.
"A super idea, providing a huge amount of flexibility. Extremely accessible, playable by all levels of ability. Highly recommended." Philip Harper
10 Trad Jazz classics for Brass Quintet.
The legendary names from the early days of Jazz - Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Glenn Miller, Jerome Kern.
from Folk Songs from the British Isles
collection for brass quintet
Mini Masterpieces for junior brass
Matt started writing brass music in 2002, when members of a brass band he used to play in suggested he have a go at arranging something for them. It wasn't very good (the tenor horns didn't know what E major was), but luckily that didn't put him off and he got better at it quite quickly!
Today, his brass arrangements are played and loved around the world, in particular his music for brass quintets and junior bands.
In 2009, Matt founded Big Shiny Brass to sell all his music as downloadable PDF files.
Matt is also very active in the world of choral music, conducting several Dorset choirs, and composing under the pen name Matthew Coleridge.
