All-Star Sports Pak: E-flat Baritone Saxophone Book

Every track on this list is a crowd-pleaser your students will actually want to play, and Story's voicings for baritone sax lock in the low end without feeling like busywork. At 12 pages of lyre-sized music, your section can grab a new chart mid-season and have it performance-ready in days, which is exactly what pep band life demands.

Driving, playful, and always rhythmically tight. These arrangements have the energy of a real band cutting loose at a football game: grooves that make the crowd move and melodies that stick in your head long after the final note.

Marching bands and pep bands with developing to intermediate baritone sax players who need high-confidence, low-stress additions to their halftime and pep band rotation. This book works equally well for a group fielding a single baritone or multiple players who can double on octave unisons.

• Anchor the section's tone on the half-note figures; these establish the harmonic bed that carries most of these charts. Think sustained and centered, not bright or thin.
• Lock the rhythmic unisons with the drumset. Story's arrangements thrive on rhythmic precision, and baritone sax is often the bridge between melody and rhythm section.
• Let the energy shift between pieces: some are built for swagger (Smoke on the Water, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), while others live in the pocket (Tequila, Proud Mary). Don't play them all at the same dynamic level.
• Watch the National Anthem closely. It's a respectful arrangement with space for breath; treat it differently in character from the rest of the book, even though it shares the same page format.

Keep this book in your pep band folder year-round. Pull a new chart whenever you need to refresh a halftime or spirit event without eating into rehearsal hours; the bite-sized length means you can rotate through the entire collection over a season and still have fresh material for repeat visitors.

• Reading rhythmic figures at tempo without written-out subdivisions
• Sustaining harmonic parts while staying aware of the section's overall blend
• Maintaining tone consistency across a wide range of styles and tempos
• Responding quickly to dynamic and rhythmic cues from the conductor
• Balancing independence as a line with function as part of the low-end foundation