Edward Leaker takes a look at the website offering flexible arrangements of pop and jazz tunes.

With the ever-growing need to include repertoire that is diverse, flexible and popular with pupils in our day-to-day teaching, TopDots offers a service that might be just what you are searching for.

The concept is to provide professional-standard flexible notation of popular songs and jazz tunes in a selection of keys that would suit most vocalists. The standard arrangements are for pop band with horn section, featuring a line-up of four ‘rhythm’ (guitar, bass, drums, keyboard), four ‘horns’ (alto, tenor, trumpet, trombone) and vocals (lead or group, where appropriate). There are also options for big band and reduced big band. Most of the arrangements are around £22, so reasonably affordable.

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