Powerflex Folio for Marching/Pep Band: E-flat Alto Saxophone/Horn in E-flat Book

This collection gives you the substance of a full marching season without the scramble for charts. Burns knows how to balance accessibility with musicality, and the flipfolio format means your players actually have room to turn pages cleanly while moving. You get warm-ups, recognizable crowd-pleasers, and patriotic standards all vetted and ready to sound polished.

Bright, buoyant, and built for forward motion. The folio moves from thoughtful warm-ups into crowd favorites with enough variety that your show feels complete, whether you're playing in a stadium or at a Friday night game. There's a sense of polish here that comes from arrangements designed specifically for the field rather than adapted from concert settings.

Directors running a marching or pep band who need mixed-difficulty arrangements that will stand up to regular performance. Alto sax and E-flat horn players in your section will appreciate parts that sit well in their range and give them moments to shine without requiring virtuoso technique.

• Keep the energy consistent between pieces during your run-through; these arrangements thrive on momentum, so treat the folio less like separate selections and more like a mini-show.
• Lock the alto sax and E-flat horn parts together early in rehearsal to establish the harmonic foundation; Burns writes with clear voice leading that becomes transparent once these parts gel.
• Shape the dynamics in the warm-ups to set expectations for tone quality before you move into the main repertoire.
• Mark your drill-yard spacing cues on the same pages where the arrangement shifts texture; you'll avoid the gap between musical change and formation change.

Build your pregame and halftime shows around this as your anchor; the 14 pieces give you enough material to create a cohesive 10-15 minute set without hunting for additional charts. The inclusion of patriotic pieces and service songs makes it especially strong for ceremony-focused programs or military appreciation events.

• Reading and executing arrangements written specifically for marching contexts (horizontal spacing, field cues, moving while playing)
• Balancing individual voice independence with section blend
• Sustaining tone quality and intonation while in motion
• Quick part absorption across multiple stylistic genres
• Rhythmic precision in syncopated passages common to popular music arrangements