Category Archives: Experienced

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 →

The Highland Wedding

This weeks shared drum score was written a number of years on request by a drumming student of mine who wanted to play this tune with one of his piper friends who knew this tune The Highland Wedding already. I’ve never really been a particular fan of the tune, but I’ve played in many bands and with a lot of different drum scores. Most famous is probably the Jim Kilpatrick drum score for this tune which seems to be almost a “massed bands” drum score for grade 1 drummers.

This drum score was meant to fit the experienced beginner drummer looking for a challenge or the straight up experienced drummer. It’s got a few challenging Continue reading →

The Gardens Of Skye

This weeks shared drum score was written for a local pipe band, as to be the first of their new 4/4 march set. The level is for the experienced drummer. In this particular drum score I decided to go for a lot of single runs of 5. The tune has a lot of long notes which leaves a lot of space for either drumming or silence from the drummers. Here, I chose the first in most cases.

I guess the most challenging part of the drum score is in the very first bar of part 2, where there’s a lot of triplets and Continue reading →

Wings

This weeks shared drum score is the last in a set of three 4/4 marches. It was written for a local grade 4 band with an aim to compete in Scotland. In Denmark, this tune is often played in a 4/4 set of Scotland The Brave, Wings & Rowan Tree, so I’ve heard this tune lots of times. However, this if the first time I’ve written a specific drum score for this tune.

The technical level of the drum score matches that of the precious 2 shared drum scores – sort of in between Continue reading →