Help & FAQs

While we do offer custom music design, we also maintain a full client roster year-round. If you are interested in commissioning an original show, contact us as early as possible to get information on availability, production timelines, and pricing.

While we don’t offer drill writing services or choreography, we have a hand-full of talented visual designers with whom we could connect you to satisfy your visual design needs.

Go to the show page and make an availability request, then we can let you know if it is available. We lease our shows on a site-based exclusivity basis, so you’ll need to check to make sure it’s available to your ensemble.

We understand that it takes some time to decide what your show will be for an upcoming season. To make sure that there is enough time for you to inquire and consider your options, we will hold shows for two weeks from the first date of contact. If another unit with a conflicting competition schedule contacts us within that period, we will inform them that you are still making a decision. However, after that hold period, we will attempt to contact you and allow 24-48 hours for you to respond (or until the next non-holiday weekday, if requested on a weekend). If we do not hear from you within that period, the show will be released to the next inquiring ensemble.

Our shows are leased (not purchased, as we retain ownership) for the duration of one competitive season. If an ensemble leases a show for a season, but decides not to compete that season, you would need to purchase an additional license for future seasons. The reasoning is very similar to why we do not offer refunds. The show was taken off the market, preventing other units from using it, so a leased but unused show is treated the same as a leased and used how.
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Yes! Please contact us for more information regarding fees, turnaround time, and what you can expect. As mentioned above, we also include the notation files for all of our productions, including both marching band and indoor percussion shows.

Yes. We understand that from top to bottom a group can have a wide array of personnel on the talent spectrum, and from section to section. For that reason, we would be happy to give you access to multiple levels of the same show.

Our productions are designed with fluidity and continuity in mind, so we generally do no sell individual portions or sections of our shows. You are welcome to use a portion of a show, but will be required to pay the full show price.

Yes! As one of the first companies to offer this service, notation files come standard as part every show (Sibelius and Music XML for Finale). We understand the need to modify and tweak shows to best fit your specific ensemble. We simply ask that they are used only by the director of the ensemble.

Once an invoice has been paid for or we receive an official PO, show materials are delivered digitally via file transfer.

Our exclusivity policy is circuit and event-based, meaning no two units in the same circuit or competing at the same regional events (WGI, Bands of America, USBands, UIL, etc.) can license the same show, regardless of class.

Important: When reserving a show, it is important that clients report their planned competition schedules as accurately as possible. Even if plans have possibly not been finalized for non-circuit, regional events, the possibility of attendance needs to be reported. We are not responsible if two ensembles perform the same production at the same contest as a result of inaccurate schedule reporting.

For most of our shows, we are happy to provide perusal scores.

You have a few options: You can go through companies like Tresona or ClicknClear and handle it through their web-based system, or contacting the publishers directly if they are not exclusively administered by those services. Getting these permissions are required before shows with those restrictions will be leased, so it would be wise to get started with that as soon as we confirm that a show is available to your ensemble. We can provide you with an approximate amount of time it will take to get approval via Tresona.

The most common methods ares by using a computer with software like MainStage or Ableton Live, a standalone sampler like the Roland SP-404, or an iPad app like BeatMaker2 or Akai iMPC.

We accept band booster and school/district checks, purchase orders, bank transfers, credit cards, and Apple Pay. Our accepted credit cards are VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.

Once a show has been reserved by an ensemble, we can't license it to other groups in the same circuit/regional events, as per our regional exclusivity. By committing to and paying for a show, an ensemble has effectively taken it off the market for their submitted schedule for that competitive season. We can discuss the option of extending the license for another year if it is not used due to a cancelled season.