Composing and Arranging for the Steel Pan

Part I : Basics

An Overview of the Special Issues in Writing and Arranging for the Steel Pan

By Richard A. Sharma

Contents

Introduction

1. The Instruments, their Ranges, and the Lack of Standardisation

1.1. The Tenors or ‘Leads’

1.2. The Double Tenor and Double Second

1.3. The Mid-Range Instruments – Guitars, Cellos, and Quadrophonics

1.4. The Basses – From Tenor Bass to Twelve Bass

2. The ‘Engine Room’

3. Notation for the Pan