Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

Written during an improvised busking session on Michigan Ave. in Chicago, this calypso tune opens with a pan melody kicked by syncopated hits from the rest of the band.  The calypso groove starts in the B section....

Difficulty: Medium/Advanced (great for college combos)

If you’ve ever played Texas Hold’em, you know what it feels like to go “all in”, especially when you have “the nuts”.  I took the emotional energy from playing poker as inspiration for “All In”, and....

Difficulty: Medium (great for college combos)

Jazz waltz anyone?  The 3/4 A section starts with a syncopated pan melody and repeats with an added marimba harmony.  The B section alternates 3/4....

Difficulty: Medium (great for college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

Cystic Mystic is more of a challenge for the rhythm section than the pan and marimba players, however there is a hemiola in the A section that the whole group must execute.  It starts with a traditional Afro-Cuban 6/8 feel....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

This tune opens with a two bar phrase on the bass that repeats throughout the A section.  The pans and marimba enter with long rolls and become more rhythmic and....

Difficulty: Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

A slow pan solo starts this tune before kicking into a samba groove.  The minor key melody for the main body of the tune is intense, exciting, and a great....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

This tune is a straight ahead medium swing, AABA form, and a great introduction to both the instrumentation and musical....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos)

This ballade style song offers a contrast to the music usually heard on pans.  16th note arpeggios on double tenors provide a lush harmonic foundation while the....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

A Calypso tune with a catchy A section and syncopated unison hits in the B section.  The form is ABABAC with the optional....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

This piece is in the soca style and there are four distinct sections to this piece giving pan, marimba, guitar, and bass, each some melodic action...

Difficulty: Medium (great for college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

This ABA tune has the pan and marimba 1 parts doubling for the first A and harmonized for the 2nd.  Marimba 2 is a chord comping part using the partito alto rhythm with....

Difficulty: Medium (great for college combos)

Rhythm party is a loose translation of the title which refers to the combining of styles which make up the two sections of this tune.  Ritmo Soiree starts off in a mambo and then to a calypso for the B section.  The key changes....

Difficulty: Easy/Medium (great for high school and college combos, or can be expanded to accommodate larger percussion ensembles)

This tune has a great, laid back bass line that lets everything fit into place.  The pan melody, with the exception of a couple flourishes, lays right on top....

Difficulty: Hard (great for college and professional level players)

Here is an original tune written for a Pan Player in a Jazz Combo format. This dreamy bossa nova is a second line tune that resembles the feeling one has when....

Difficulty: Medium/Advanced (great for college combos)

There is a fusion style ostinato bass line for the A section which supports the melody, played by pan and doubled by guitar.  The A section is repeated with marimba, doubled by bass, taking over the melody and the guitar and pan taking....