Category Archives: Score of the week

The Gael

This weeks shared drum score was made for the tune called The Gael, known from the film The Last of the Mohicans. It’s the 2nd version that I’ve written for this tune, this time for the experienced or advanced drummer. The tune is played both as a march and a jig, and often with a slow air to begin with and/or end with. This is only the drum score for the march and the jig part.

I’ve made the drum score fairly easy to remember, since this would often be a drum score that drum corps would learn for a concert or parade, and not be Continue reading →

Gordon MacRaes Favourite

This weeks shared drum score has been a long time coming. Since my good friend Gord MacRae passed away a few years ago, I’ve been wanting to write a drum score for this great tune composed by Michael Grey. Gord was a good friend of mine and we played together for years in Triumph Street and stayed together on the band trips and enjoyed many pasta wine dinners. Another piper friend of mine from the band sent me this tune and I really enjoyed it, so it’s been in my head for some time. Here’s the result finally.

The drum score written for the experienced or advanced drummer, and is suitable for solo competitions. This time I’ve added the Continue reading →

Sandys New Chanter

This drum score was written about a year ago for a band in Malta. It was meant to be a show tune for the bands parade gigs, or as a march off kind of tune. The beginning of the score is meant to be a drumming intro to the set/tune.

The level of the drum score is for the experienced to advanced level drummers. It’s got a few tricky Continue reading →

The 24th Guards Brigade At Anzio

This weeks shared drum score was written for the Cross Borders Pipe Band – for the MSR. We’re going to compete with this at the World Championships in Glasgow this year (2024). This past weekend we had a band rehersal weekend in Copenhagen and, we had planned to finish it off by performing in public at Kongens Nytorv right next to The Royal Theatre and famous Nyhavn. However unsteady weather meant that we thought we could spend the time better rehersing inside. Anyhow.

The drum score starts off with a Continue reading →

Jock Wilson’s Ball

This drum score was written for the uplifting, positive and melodic reel Jock Wilson’s Ball. It’s my 2nd drum score for this tune – this time written for the experienced drummer to be play by a local band for their “easy” MSR in grade 4 competitions.

The most challenging part of the score is the accented rolls – especially in bar Continue reading →

The Rock And The Wee Pickle Tow

This weeks shared drum score was written for a 2 parted jig called The Rock And The Wee Pickle Tow – not only chosen because of it’s name…, it is also a very cool tune. I believe it was originally a 6/8 march, however this is written to a recording of the tune in a jig version made by the PM of Oslo Caledonian Pipe Band, Nikolai Hagen Huse.

The score is pretty straight forward and simple, however Continue reading →

We’re No Awa’ Tae Bide Awa’

This weirdly name tune is a part of a 4/4 march competition set of a local Danish pipe band, and was written for their level (beginner), as the last tune of their march set. Since it’s a one parted tune, they play it twice. Again the material in there is fairly basic – 7-stroke rolls, flams and triplets – so it’s suitable for a lot of drum corps. The space in the drum score and the relative easy difficulty level leaves a lot of room for Continue reading →