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Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:15

Sheet Music Store!

Hi all! There's a recent development on Patreon that should work well with what I have to offer. While my own personal sheet music store here at https://aaronhettinga.com isn't going anywhere, I'm starting to post my sheet music as downloadable PDF files on that platform as an additional storefront for my arrangements.  Stay tuned!


Aaron

Along with three other arrangers who also work as gigging musicians, I was interviewed by ArrangeMe for their May “Staccato Spotlight” article. ArrangeMe is the platform by which I'm able to publish a number of the works that I have available for sale online and it's pretty great to be singled out like this!

https://blog.arrangeme.com/blog/staccato-spotlight-on-gigging-chamber-musicians

Over the course of the past year I've had the privilage of working with so many amazing musicians in a wide variety of ensembles! Now that I'm placing more focus on arranging and publishing, I'm taking every opportunity to capture recordings whenever any of my pieces get read down. Some of these have been finding their way onto my YouTube channel (@AaronHettingaMusic) as follow-score demo videos. A number of these have been either live or in-studio small brass ensemble arrangements (like New Orleans, Muppet Show Theme, Caisson, etc) though there are still a number of multitrack recordings and other live recordings that will continue to make their way out to the YT Channel.

Keep on following/liking/subscribing to the channel to catch these recordings as they make their way out into the world...thanks for listening!


Aaron

Thursday, 10 February 2022 08:43

Virtual Big Band Guest Appearance

A little while back, I caught wind of a project so cool that I just had to hop on board. Kevin DePree was assembling a big band loaded with some fantastic local players to tackle the theme music from the Mario Kart 8 video game. After tweaking the bone section parts and tossing on the Luigi hat my wife made a few years back for a father/son themed costume set (my son, the shorter one, was Mario), I sent in the audio/video and forgot about it until this guy showed up online. Such a great result! Thanks for having me on board, all!

Thursday, 11 June 2020 23:30

Mega Man II NES Trombone Cover

Here's a big chunk of my childhood! As a late-80's/early-90's kid I played lots of Nintendo games. While this one was also a personal favorite to play, the music was just out of this world.

Monday, 11 May 2020 23:27

Most Certainly

Hey All! Here's an easy-going original tune presented here with four bones and iRealPro rhythm section.

Friday, 08 May 2020 23:26

Beatles' BECAUSE with Trombones

This is what happens when a trombone ensemble plays the beautiful Beatles tune, "Because."

Friday, 01 May 2020 23:25

Joshua Fit The Battle

Happy May Day!

Time to welcome the new month with a New Video! This time around, I take on a Swingin' Spiritual.

Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:20

New Video! Not Goin' Home Anymore

Here's a new video shoot that just wrapped up! This is one of my favorite soundtracks from one of my favorite movies.