This weeks shared drum score was written for the tune Sonny Brogans Mazurka – or maybe even a mix of that and another mazurka. It’s written from how I remember the tune played back in my childhood when I listened to my first band play this. I wrote the drum score to my memory of this tune, but always found the tune and that type of tune really interesting to drum to. Extremely exciting stuff 🙂 It’s written for Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was made this past summer for the 2 parted version (2 first parts) of the jig Bronnies Blue Brozzi. I’ve always enjoyed listening to and playing this jig. I remember we played this jig in a concert set with Triumph Street Pipe Band and I was playing the djembé for this rocking tune. Very good times.
This drum score was written for the advanced level, and it follows the tune quite well I find and has some obvious dynamics installed as you can probably catch Continue reading
This week shared drum score was written this past summer during my “One drum score a day challenge”. It’s written for the tune Cullen Bay, which is a nice 5/4 march sometimes played in massed bands here in Scandinavia. I’ve played another great drum score for this tune numerous times, however this one is sort of more advanced, and was meant to be a challenge of how far can you go without Continue reading
Following last weeks shared slow air – here’s the drum score for another one. It comes across more as sort of a slow march, at least when the drums set in. It was written for a parade/marching pipe band and is meant to their arrangement of the tunes, and to fit the level of Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for a grade 4 bands medley selection and was meant to fit the level of beginner to experienced side drummers. The drum score has the typical slow air build up with a lot of room for the pipers in the 1st part, and then adding more beats for the 2nd part. At the end I added in the bridge to the Continue reading
The shared drum score of this week was written for the reel Jock Wilson’s Ball back in June 2020 during my drum score writing challenge of writing one drum score pr. day. I’ve always enjoyed listening to this tune, and therefore decided I would go for making a drum score for it.
The level is aimed to be for the experienced level, however there’s is probably a few patterns in there that some would regard as being advanced – for example the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written last year for a local Danish band to be played in a concert setting and at festivals and gigs. It was made for the popular tune Loch Lomond. The level of the drum score is for the experienced drummer.
It’s played all the way through before you repeat the tune and the drum score. Notice that everybody plays all of it, except from the solo part noted in the drum score with “LD only”. The drum score is filled with triplet patterns with flams, so these things could make a good exercise itself. Feel like practising more triplets? Then have a look at the technique exercises page and Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written last year for a local Danish band for the tune The Gael, known from the film “The Last of the Mohicans”. It was written for the beginner to experienced level- I would say that a beginner with some experience should be able to play this. The hard thing here is really the musical idiom for 6/8 marches and for 6/8 jig.
The tune starts off with a piping solo part, which then transforms into a march and then a jig. I tried to make the drum score fairly easy Continue reading
This weeks drum score was written for one of my favourite massed bands 6/8’s. I really thinki, by the way, that a lot more massed bands should be playing 6/8’s. The 6/8 rhythm has got such a nice swing and also sounds impressive.
I wrote this drum score for the experienced to advanced level back in June 2020 during my “One-Drum-Score-a-Day” challenge. I’ve always liked the tune, which I heard for the first time when I came to Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written back in 2003 for an off season concert band. We were a bunch of players without a fixed local band, yet some of us would play with over seas bands during the summer. In the winter time we would gather up and play concerts in Denmark.
This drum score was written for the strathspey The Pipers Bonnet. I remember thinking that this tune was somewhat tricky to write a drum score for, however I managed to come up with something. Playing it today felt a little awkward since my playing has emerged and developed into a different place now than where it was back then. Sorry for the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for a very popular tune composed by Gordon Duncan called the The Panda. I’ve heard this tune played by many solo pipers, bands and solo drummers over the years. It’s very catchy, and it’s one of those tunes where you as a drummer can play almost anything to it, and it will sound good. It’s also one of those tunes that can easily be arranged in multiple ways to fit into a selection or a concert set by adding different uptakes, breaks and syncopations. I wrote this drum score to the standard version of the tune. The drum score should be drumable for any drummers at the experienced/advanced level. Notice that the Continue reading
The shared drum score of this week was written this summer for a tune called Dornoch Links. I really like this tune, and I think it should be played more, than I believe it does (maybe I just don’t hear it or listen for it). I played this tune in my very first season of competing in the solos back in 1994. I particularly recall that day at the Scandinavian Championships in Holbæk (what a nice venue in Strandparken, by the water) where I played in the intermediate class, in front of David Brown Sr. who was judging, and unexpectedly (for me) won 1st. place. I had already left Holbæk (for some reason I don’t recall) at the time of the prize giving, so someone else from the band picked up the trophy, diploma and judges sheet and handed it to me later on. I don’t remember anything from that original drum score I played, but I decided to revisit the tune by writing this new drum score for it. I think it should be drumable for beginners, although the endings in the 2nd part might be hard to Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for the strathspey Aspen Bank. It’s another tune that I remember playing earlier on in my pipe band drumming journey with Holbæk Pipe Band. I believe that the tune is relatively easy for the pipers, however it can be tricky for drummers with the number of tachums in there that we should try to express as well. In this drum score I was aiming for the experienced level, however some might suggest that this should be for the advanced level, and therefore I will tick both categories for this drum score. Especially the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written back in June during the selfmade challenge I gave myself of writing a drum score every day of that month. It’s written for the 3/4 march I See Mull, which I have known since I played it back in the early nineties with a grade 4 band in Copenhagen, Denmark. Back then, we played it as the last of four 3/4 marches, and I remember being a little bit exhausted/tired/bored by the end of that set at the time. Now I actually fancy the tune – funny how things change some times. The level for this drum score was meant to be for the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was made more as sort of a gimmick. I have no count of how many times I have played this tune in massed bands and at gigs, so I thought I’d be fun to just let loose and see what came out if I just more or less jammed my way through the tune. So, this version is made for the advanced drummer, and is meant as something to just have Continue reading
The first time I came across this tune was in some of my earlier years of pipe band drumming, probably beginning to mid 90’ties. I was playing with the Heather Pipes & Drums of Copenhagen B-band (grade 4 band) and we played this tune in the medley. The shared score was written in June this year. The drum score is written for the beginner level. The focus here is to get a fluent a and easy introduction to the jig idiom. Therefore I’ve used only a limited amount of technical bits in there, to allow focus on the swing of it. Rolls can be tricky in jigs, so watch out for these when you Continue reading
The beats shared this week was written for the exciting tune Hamiltons Nutsack. The first time I heard this tune, it was played by the 1st Royal Engineers from Sweden. And then later I played the tune with Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band in 1999. I decided to give it a shot, to write a drum score for this tune on my June-challenge of writing a drum score every day in that month. The level is for the experienced player. The tune itself is very interesting a suggests a lot of off beats in the drumming, so that’s what I sort of Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for Paul Wilson, who wrote me a suggestion for a drum score I should write when I did my June-challenge of 1 drum score pr. day in June. It’s written for the march Fraser Of Cairnie. It’s written for drummers at the experienced level. I particularly like the endings of this tune, and find the drumming here very Continue reading
This shared drum score was written for the 4 parted jig The Hen’s March. It was written for the Balagan concert band back in 2009. It was meant to be part of a jig set, as I recall. On the recording you’ll hear that I play some sort of the rhythm in the 3rd part, sort of imitating the djembe that was meant to join in at that point. The level of the drum score is for the advanced drummer. I really enjoy drumming to this lively tune. If I were to play in for solos, I’d of course Continue reading
This weeks shared score was written back in 2001 for a Danish grade 4 band. It was meant to be played in a medley. The level of the drum score is for the experienced drummer. There some drag movements in there that can be tricky to master, for example in the endings with the accented rolls. The key part in this drum score is the Continue reading