2024/2025 Resources

Varsity Band Music

Get ahead of the game and learn the pep band & marching band tunes that are in regular rotation at all of our games!

Drumline Repertoire

Classic Exercises (Day 1, Double Beat, Warm-Up#1, Triplet Rolls, Accents and More, Roll Builder, 3-Minute Warm-Up, GP Huff)
Classic Repertoire (crusher/heart of steel, spottieottiedopalicious, shout it out!, O, Cash, Spin, [break, 1,2,3, fist ending], #4, say my name, varsity anthem, pump it up, neck, BT2)
Longer Cadences (you do it! liberator, t nice, rockman, focus)

Samba Drumming

All Varsity Band Students come together to create our very own large samba bateria (drumming group) that regularly meets once a week from December until May.

Additionally, the "World Drumming" class will be learning this similar repertoire.

"Samba is participatory music. The music is structured to be inclusive. Ensemble sizes are flexible (from 3 players to 300!) and players of various skill levels can play together in the same bands. Samba is perfect for schools with large class sizes. Samba has multiple entry points, is rigorous, develops a high level of rhythmic sensitivity, and is a great deal of fun." - Dana Monteiro

Private Lessons

Private lessons are the best way to ensure that you are continuing to grow on your instrument this summer! All of the teachers listed below are fully equipped and ready to teach remote lessons. We highly suggest that all of our band students enroll in private lessons for the summer.

*Please note, although the musicians on the list have gone through an informal screening process, they are not officially affiliated with Lane Tech or with CPS. This list has been complied to provide families with more options*

Lesson Teachers Summer 2020

Instrument Rental/Purchase Resources:

Before renting or purchasing anything please speak to one of us. We would love to guide you through this process. Every year we see students purchase instruments that fall apart in the first year. Let us help you!

Quinlan & Fabish (Arlington Heights, IL)

Luscombe Music (Elmhurst, IL)

Drums at Chicago Music Exchange (North Side of Chicago)

Austin Music Center (Oak Park, IL)

Evanston Band & Orchestra (Evanston, IL)

Flatts and Sharpe (Rogers Park AND Norwood Park in Chicago)

Andy's Music (North Side of Chicago)

PM Woodwind (Evanston, IL)