Are you missing the 'hang time' with other musicians? Are you missing band rehearsals or live gigs? Do you want to play in a horn band at home with incredible studio musicians from Nashville?NOW YOU CAN!! FOR FREE!! Our arrangement of Nothing But the Blood from Retro Hymns 2 is now available in our 'Join the Band' series where there are 10 different mixes of the song on our YouTube Channel. Each [...]
I've been working on the new 8 Core Orchestra Series - Volume 2 for quite some time now and we're finally there! (Wahoo!) Just in time for Easter, I am thrilled to introduce you to the first arrangement in the series, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today! I'm still finishing up the other arrangements, but I wanted to make sure you could order this today, download it immediately and be ready for [...]
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 [...]
