26 New Concert Titles for 2013!

Saturday, October 27th, 2012

We’re excited to present a fresh new batch of awesome concert music for 2013! New percussion ensembles, duets, and solos are now available to spice up your concert season.

In addition to new releases from veteran Tapspace artists Brian Blume, Jamieson Carr, Jim Casella, Ralph Hicks, Jesse Monkman, Jeff Queen, Brian Slawson, Christopher D. Walker, and Stephen Whibley, we’d like to welcome the following new artists to the Tapspace lineup: Alan Keown, Alex Stopa, Stephen Primatic, Dustin Schulze, John Ling, and Bradley Slayter. Continue reading →

New State List Details

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

In our recently-printed catalog, we’ve included this new spread outlining the various details of state list titles and grades. We hope this will be a helpful resource while you’re planning your contest selections.

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2013 Cavaliers Audition Packets available

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

The Cavaliers percussion section will soon be holding auditions for 2013. Under the leadership of composer/arranger Michael McIntosh, and percussion caption head Brian Tinkel, the official audition packets are now available to anyone vying for a spot in this prestigious ensemble.

For more information on The Cavaliers, and to learn about audition dates, visit The Cavaliers website.

Note: The 2013 audition packets contain the same material as was in the 2012 packets.

Tapspace.com sports a new look!

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Welcome to the new look and feel of our website! Many months under construction have finally paid off as our site now has a new look and feel throughout with many helpful new features to help you browse. Now you can more quickly locate the products you’re looking for with our “narrow results” functionality. Also, viewing products will give you a closer look and listen with full sample score previews, full audio demos, and in many cases, full video performances of our music. We hope it makes your visit easier and more enjoyable.

While you’re here, we’d appreciate it if you could please let us know if you come across any broken links or problems. Hopefully you won’t, but if you do, please let us know here!

New Marching Downloads for 2012

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

It’s time to hit the field, and it’s the perfect time to turn woodshedding season into woodSHREDDING season! This year we’re serving up some drumline jams that are sure to challenge your hands (and your brains) and get the crowds on their feet. We’ve added a fresh coat of paint to some of Murray Gusseck‘s classic hits from Parking Lot Etudes, as well as adding two new lot jams from the legendary Jeff Queen. Additionally, we’re excited to introduce two talented and good-looking artists to our roster – Josh Brickey and Andrew Ziehm. Continue reading →

Submit your concerts and upload programs!

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

We’re continually humbled by the number of reports we receive of our music being performed in the real world. We realized, however, we didn’t really have any way of knowing about these performances unless you tell us. So now we’ve made this really easy to do! Continue reading →

New African Drumset Book by Royal Hartigan

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Tapspace is pleased to carry the new book, West African Eve Rhythms for Drumset. This 363-page book + DVD is a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge about four styles of West African dance and drumming–Akpese, Gadzo, Kinka, and Adzohu. Each style is broken down with musical notations, songs, proverbs, and more. hartigan then goes on to break down each style into usable, groovy drumset patterns that can be adapted to a variety of other musical styles. Continue reading →