RSM: Randall Standridge Music

08/15/2025

Looking for new ways to help your orchestra students Get in Gear this year? Join Anne Marie Patterson, Deborah Baker Monday, and Katie O'Hara LaBrie on Sunday August 24th in the afternoon for a FREE webinar and a chance to win a FREE TEACHER MANUAL! We'll give you an overview our new warm-up book "Getting in Gear" and provide you with tons of great tips and tricks for helping your students build solid intonation, develop better tone, and rock tricky rhythms with ease!

This expansive book is designed as a drop-in resource for "the developing player" (which is really anyone who has completed a typical level 1 method book through high school levels).

Have questions about this new Warm-up Book? Drop them in the chat below!

08/12/2025

Wish Joshua A. Idio a Happy Birthday! Joshua's music is always vibrant and full of energy and his new concert band works at RSM are definitely not to be missed!

Cannon - Grade 2.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6GjVgMXygg

Aviators - Grade 3.5-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUFOUmA0GHA

Learn more about Joshua: https://www.randallstandridge.com/joshua-a-idio

08/02/2025

Today is Katie O'Hara LaBrie's Birthday! Katie is our Orchestra editor and does so many things for our . Please wish her a Happy Birthday!

Learn more about Katie at: https://www.randallstandridge.com/katie-o-hara-labrie

Check out two of her newest works:
Boundless Spirit for Grade .5 Concert Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5pxjNK1aJo

Cellos on the Rooftop for Grade 1.5-2 String Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9qilyoJ2AE

Oh! and have you checked out Getting in Gear yet?!? This new string warm-up book that Katie co-authored going to change your life! www.getting-in-gear.com

08/01/2025

Did you know that Doug Spata is quite the pinball wizard!? He has a huge collection of pinball machines in his home! How cool!

Wish Doug a happy birthday today and while you are at it check out his latest release from RSM: Bonus Level! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47oSVjIvR-I

07/24/2025

Texas Orchestra Directors Association Thanks for all you do all year to make music amazing for the students of your great state! If you are at convention this week please stop by booth 1140 for some FREE Scores, including some of our new to PML pieces! We'll also have FREE copies of our new warm-up book, Getting in Gear, for you to check out! Have fun at the reading sessions and enjoy the convention!

Randall D. Standridge, Composer/Marching Arts Designer, Kevin Sluder Compositions/Arrangements, Avner Dorman, Composer, Erica Donahoe, Mitchell J. Roth, Composer, Christina Huss, Composer, Chris Evan Hass, Nubia Jaime-Donjuan, Composer

07/23/2025

Randall Standridge Music is en route to Texas! Who will we see at TBA/TODA this week?

Make sure to stop by the exhibit hall to meet our composers, grab some FREE SCORES and a free copy of Getting in Gear - our new warm-up book for String Orchestra!

07/09/2025

Happy Birthday this week to two Greats: Bob Lipton and Ed Huckeby!

Bob's Grade 1.5 String Orchestra Piece "A Touch of Glass" is perfect for beginning groups who want to sound polished and professional - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU6TN_aO-Gk

Ed's Grade 4 Concert Band work's "Dramatic Images" and "Intrada, Ceremonial & Danse" both bring the drama! Each piece is made up of different segments, like movements of symphony, all wrapped into one epic tune - perfect for stretching your students to great heights.

Dramatic Images - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOriNdKqg8
Intrada, Ceremonial & Danse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwcL1F4aKQ

Learn more about Bob:
https://www.randallstandridge.com/bob-lipton
Learn more about Ed:
https://www.randallstandridge.com/ed-huckeby

06/26/2025

Wish Emily Graham a Happy Birthday! Emily is an educator, composer, percussionist & trombonist from Washington State. Her cats Fig and Millie inspired her first RSM composition: Midnight Zoomies - a concept which we are sure every cat owners can relate to!

Check out her works for concert Band:
Midnight Zoomies (Grade 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss6pvuLbbyU

Rogue Protocol (Grade 1.5-2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKfYpIDF1I0

Learn more about Emily: https://randallstandridge.com/emily-graham

06/08/2025

Wish Aaron Fryklund a very happy birthday! New to the , Aaron is a composer and high school orchestra director in Texas. His grade 2 piece for string orchestra, FrOstBYtE is about a post-apolocpytic computer virus hitting the scene. Will the hackers win or will you? Use it in winter or any time of year!

Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAY55Jjmios

Learn more about Aaron at: https://randallstandridge.com/aaron-fryklund

06/06/2025

Wish Salvador Alan Jacobo a happy birthday! This composer and a video game efficidando just released his latest hit through RSM - "Where're we Droppin'"

Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EySlD2rrJBI

Learn more about Salvador at: https://randallstandridge.com/salvador-jacobo

06/05/2025

RSM and Katie O'Hara LaBrie want to help your students Get In Gear next fall! Learn more about this amazing new resource from Katie, Anne Marie Patterson and Deborah Baker Monday! www.getting-in-gear.com

09/27/2024

Thanks Stanton's Sheet Music for the shout out!

Randall Standridge, Katie O'Hara LaBrie, Perry Holbrook, JaRod Hall, Jennifer E. Rose - Composer & Sound Designer

“READY THE CASTLE and More New Strings Titles from Randall Standridge Music Publishing”
Recommended by Austin Swack, Instrumental Education Specialist
https://wp.me/pjSvB-9p1



RSM: Randall Standridge Music Randall D. Standridge, Composer/Marching Arts Designer