A number of years back, I had this idea for a full orchestra instrumental series that would work with just 8 core players plus piano/rhythm. And thus the 8 Core Orchestra Series was born. The response has been so extremely positive with this series, that I've decided it's time for Volume 2. So I am thrilled to announce that Volume 2 is here. I am finishing up demos/mixes plus creating all the [...]
There are those moments in the recording studio that are somewhat surreal. They are the "I can't believe that just happened!" coupled with "And we recorded that!!!!"Awhile back as I was recording my Retro Hymns 2 collection from the Horns & Rhythm Series, I was recording the ad lib solos for the song "Power In the Blood." Barry Green had already recorded a killer trombone solo (He ALWAYS DOES!) and Mark Douthit [...]
My wife, Dana, and I have been married 19 1/2 years now. We actually fell in love on a mission trip to Ukraine with our church (The People's Church, Franklin, TN, now Church of the City). She was singing and I was playing trumpet. Our whole life together, music has been a big part of what we do. Over the years, individually, we have worked on hundreds of songs, arrangements, collections, musicals, [...]
1985 I'm a freshman trumpet player coming in to what I learned was called the 'Tate High School Showband of the South'. At the time, I played trumpet (started in 7th grade) and that was the high school I was zoned for. I really liked playing trumpet and I heard the band was 'really good'. (understatement I would realize). In 1980 they won the MBA Grand National Champions in Jacksonville, Florida. So [...]
So, tomorrow, Show Dogs opens in theaters across the US and I had the awesome opportunity to be a part of my friend David Shipp's orchestrating team and do orchestrations (and music prep) for this score composed by Heitor Pereira. And what that means is that I can now talk about this project. And, quite honestly, when you work on a project and want it to succeed and want to create more [...]
20 years ago. Man that's hard to fathom. But I remember the inception of AnderKamp Music. I was working at Ron Cobb Copy Service (along with Aaron Weitekamp) where we printed most of the sheet music for the Christian publishers in town. Ron had been a copyist back to the vellum days and had a printing press with plates to make copies of the music (yes that long ago). He also had [...]
I have a LOT of music for brass players here at AnderKamp Music. A LOT! With over 7 volumes of brass quintets and 2 volumes of brass choir arrangements alone, there is a lot of great music created by a trumpet player for you to use with your brass group (quintet, choir, ensemble or any sort of hybrid/mixed instrumentation). If you and I have never met or you have never had the [...]
I am a sucker for strings. Always have been. I married a violin player for goodness sake. Quite a number of years ago now at The People's Church (now Church of the City), I created what I simply called 'String Sunday'. This was a Sunday at Christmas where we brought in a string ensemble and featured them for the whole service. Christmastime is often so busy and rushed so I like to [...]
If you like Bugler's Holiday, then you may enjoy this trumpet trio version of Deck the Halls that I created in that style (double tonguing and festive!). I wanted to create an arrangement of Deck the Halls for trumpet trio in the style of Bugler’s Holiday BUT I wanted to make sure it was playable by the ‘regular’ folks. All 3 trumpet parts have been carefully written to be as playable as [...]
I'm thrilled to introduce the just add...Horns series to our catalog! These are 'Modular Horn Arrangements for Modern Worship'. Written to fit in a modern worship setting, these modular arrangements allow the horn section to 'go with the flow'. This way the worship leader and rhythm section can do the arrangement however they would like to do road map wise, and with Lyric Cues, Indented Sections and Hand Signals all available, [...]
