Score of the week this time around, was written for the beginner level, for a grade 4B band. It’s made to fit to the tune Black Bear closer than the standard drum setting – to create a better ensemble in the bands performance. In this drum score there’s a lot of room for dynamics, especially in the Continue reading
This drum score for Highland Laddie was written a year ago for a grade 4B band who wanted something specific to play to the tune Highland Laddie. Something which was more interesting than the very basic massed band score and less busy (or more simple) than the widely spread standard drum score. This drum score gives a lot of room to work with dynamics – being a corps of beginner drummers. Especially on the Continue reading
This drum score was written in 2015 for a grade 4 band to play in a march set with one drummer playing an old military rope drum and the other snaredrummers playing regular pipe band drums. It was written for all the drummers of the drum corp to be capable of playing along, as well as for the score to be able to learn and memorize fairly quickly. The patterns in the drum score builds on Continue reading
This drum score was written to be played by a drummer playing an old military style rope tension drum. It was meant to be the first in a set of two marches. It was written a year ago for a beginners grade 4 drum corp. The recording below is recorded in a slow tempo to allow for beginners to drum along as well as Continue reading
This weeks drum score of the week is also based on the standard 2/4 setting. It was made a few years back for a local pipe band to allow all drummers of the drum corp to join in for the march competitions. The variations are also based on the same rudiments as the ones that are used in bar 3&4 and 7&8. Especially the first two bars are made very Continue reading
This weeks drum score of the week was written a few years back for a Danish grade 4 band and is based on the 2/4 standard setting – the mid-bars and the endings being as the standards. It was written so that the beginner drummers in the drum corp could play along in the competition march set. It was a great way to get the beginners fast into the drum corp of the band. The variations in the two parts builds on Continue reading
This shared drum score of the week was written back in 2006 for a Scottish grade 3 band for their medley selection. The score was written for the experienced level drummers. The endings might seem a little simple, however this simple movement suits the melody very well – I think. One of the tricky’er movements in the drum score is the Continue reading
Score of the week this time around is for a 2-parted strathspey for the experienced drummer. When it was written more than 15 years ago it was to fit into a medley selection following last weeks shared drum score. We played the same selection a year later, and this score was slightly modified with a variation in bar 2 of both parts. This was done to make the Continue reading
This score of the week was written back in 2000 for a medley selection for Holbæk Pipe Band, whom I was the leading drummer for at the time. The level of the score is for the experienced drummer. This strathspey followed the intro tune to the medley and therefore, establishing a good ensemble vibe right from the start, was important. Especially the first part was written to fit the the tune very closely to help establish a nice strathspey idiom and ensemble. In the second part Continue reading
A new year – 2016 – and a new shared drum score of the week is up. This time it’s for a 4-parted jig for the experienced drummer, looking for a challenge. The drum score was written over this last month for a local Danish grade 4 band with an experienced drum corp. I think the tune was challenging to write a drum score for, because of the Continue reading
This last drum score of the week of 2015, was written for a tune written by Bernard Bouhadana – currently PM of Balagan. The arrangement of the tune was played by the Balagan concert band at some of the early concerts of the band in 2008 – as being the first of the reels in the ending of the medley selection. The name of the tune refers to the time in 2004 where Continue reading
This weeks score of the week was written in 2007 for the Balagan concert band. It was the second reel in our medley selection. Although a reel, we repeated both parts. This score turned out to be one of the more challenging in that particular selection – especially the single run in the 2nd part. This was changed with the drum corp as we where playing it, because Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written more than eight years ago for an experienced drum corp of a grade 4 band. It was written to be the opener of a medley selection. In the first line, I focused on maintaining a good solid beat – for the walk in. The drum score is structured in the way that line 2, 3 and 4 of part 1 is also played as line 2, 3, and 4 in part 2 – as you hear it on the drumming recording attached below. The few challenges in the are more so challenging on the musical aspect than from a technical view. They way I see it, it’s all about Continue reading
The score of the week this time around is for the waltz Ass In The Graveyard. The drum score was written back in 2001 as to be the ending of a grade 4 medley of a Danish band. The it was played was 1st part, 2nd part and then 1st part once more. Level wise, this drum score was written to fit any beginner drummer aswell as to be able to express Continue reading
The last score of the week of November is a beginner drum score for the 4 parted jig Glasgow Police Pipers. The score was written for a drum corp that has never before played jig. This is hopefully reflected in the drum score, in the way that there’s a lot of eight notes (as in the tune) and also the score is written to be without too many technical challenges. Yet, there’s some challenges in Continue reading
This weeks score was written 9 years ago for a Danish pipe band to play in their march selection. The level of the drum corp at the time was beginner – experienced, which is reflected in this score. There’s a few tricky, yet commonly used single runs and roll movements in there, that could be quite challenging for some. However this should be Continue reading
This weeks score of the week was written only one week ago. The drum score was written for a grade 4B drum corp of drummers who hasn’t played a jig drum score before as a corp and where each individual player has very little or no experience playing jigs. The drum corp consist of players of different levels, but all on a somewhat beginner level, who doesn’t always get to play all together at once.
The idea of the drum score was to make an easy score, to introduce the 6/8 jig feel and idiom without making each player worry too much about the technical aspect. However, there is a few tough Continue reading
A new month – new theme. Drum scores for beginner drummers.
This first drum score of November was written in 2007 for a grade 4 band, as to be the last march in a march set. The tune has a lot of long notes which is also reflected in the drum score. The level of the drum score is aimed towards the experienced beginner having lots of Continue reading
This weeks drum score was written back in 2010 – and inspired by all of the different impression I’d gotten from playing in various bands and listening to so many great bands. It was written as a warm up drum score for the Balagan drum corp. This score could also be played by the experienced drummer in a solo competition, as for example Copenhagen Winter Competition which is now up and running again. In Balagan we ended up playing it to the piping tune Continue reading
Due to my absence last week, there will be two scores of this week. This first drum score of the week was written back around 15 year ago for a Scandinavian combined group of different bands. The bands were too small a group to compete on their own, so they gathered up and competed together as The Scandinavian Mayflies. This score was written to be their strathspey in their MSR, and also to be an easy drum score to memorize. As you can see in the drum score there’s quite Continue reading