This weeks shared drum score was written for a local band with an experienced drum corp. It’s for the ending of their medley. I’ve tagged the score as both hornpipe & reel, because the most people I know like to call the tune both things. The drum score is very heavy on Continue reading
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
This weeks shared drum score was written for a MAP tunes competition march set for a local grade 4 band, and was meant to be played in the middle of the set. The difficulty level is for the drummer at the experienced level, however it could be a great challenge for a beginner drummer. The most challenging pieces in there are Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for the march The Pipers Cave, and is the opening tune of a march set to play in grade 4 competitions. Apart from the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score is connected to the shared drum score of last week. It was to be played prior to last weeks final drum score of their march set. It’s a rather simple yet slightly updated drum score of a previously shared drum score to the very same tune. Again this drum score a very straight forward and meant to Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for a local grade 4 band to be played in their march set for competitions on the European mainland. It was meant to fit the basic level of their drummers. This was the very last march set in their competition set, which is why I thought I would add that Continue reading
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
Finally a different drum score for this famous massed bands tune typically played to with a standard massed bands drum score. This particular drum score was written for a local Danish pipe band to be played in a competition. The level of the drum score is meant to fit the beginner level drummers. However there are a few demanding patterns in there, such as Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for the 2/4 march “Brown Haired Maiden”. It’s written for a local Danish pipe band for the somewhat experienced beginner level, to eventually be played in a competition set. Ideally it’s written to allow for a crescendo to build up during 3rd & 4th bar of both parts. It should be playable by most beginners, however there are few challenges in the drum score, such as the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written in 2020 for a tiny local Danish pipe band with just one snare drummer. He wanted something specific for the tune, so I wrote this drum score for him. Notice that the form/structure of this particula score is 1, 1, 2, 1, so no repeat of the 2nd part. It’s written for the more experienced beginner level. It has some challenges build in – for example the Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written for an experienced Danish drummer to play for solos, I believe. It was written back in 2010. I probably would write this different today – 11 years later. However, I like to share this because, maybe someone else can make use of it. It’s been sitting in my drum score folder for many years now. It was a funny Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written all the way back in 2003 for an experienced grade 4 drum corp as far as I recall. I can clearly see from the way I wrote back then, that I was way less experienced in drum score writing, and also wrote in a totally different way than 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
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 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 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 weeks shared drum score was written back in 2001 for a Danish grade 4 band to be played in their medley. It’s written for the great tune High Drive composed by Gordon Duncan. The aim, when I wrote the score, was to fit the level of the drum corp at the time, and also really try to fit what was natural for the LD in that corp to play. So I played it over some times with her before laying down the final version of this drum score. I think it’s important to make sure that Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written back in 2006 for a Scottish grade 3A pipe band to compete in the MSR competition at the World Pipe Band Championships. A Danish piper who was playing with the band got in touch with me, and asked if I could write some drum scores for the band. I actually then met up with Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was made for the tune Lady Lever Park back in 2010. We played it with the Balagan concert band in a concert after the Copenhagen Winter Competition 2010. This march was the 2nd of two in a set of traditional marches. In the first march we only played rope tension drums, and then for this one, we had a regular pipe band snare join in. We did some call & response in the Continue reading