Tag Archives: 2/4

Compositionally Challenged

This drum score was written for a tune called Compositionally Challenged composed by Iain Currie. The hornpipe was a part of a hornpipe set with the early Balagan concert band back in 2007/2008. However this tune and drum score was taken out just before the first concerts in February 2008 to give room for other stuff in the concert. The drum score is straight forward to the melody and was written not to take too much attention away from the very melodic tune. A place to really go for the dynamics would be in the Continue reading →

Black Bear

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 →

Highland Laddie

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 →

Teribus

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 →

Campbell’s Farewell To Redcastle

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 →

Glenfinnan Highland Gathering

The theme of Octobers “Score of the week” will be 4 parted tunes for the experienced drummer.

This drum score was written just days ago for an MSR for a Danish grade 4 band, where the drummers needed a good challenge. I think this particular tune was a bit hard to write a score to, because of the many tachums in there. However, I wrote it, and here’s the end result. For the endings I decided to break up the last Continue reading →

72nds Farewell to Aberdeen

A new month – a new theme. This month it’ll be 2 parted MAP marches suitable for grade 4 bands to play in competition.

This first drum score of the week of September was originally written back in 2007 for a grade 4 band to play at the Worlds when they had the first go of this MAP system. Back then, grade 4 bands only had to play 2 two parted marches in grade 4B. This drum score was written to be Continue reading →

Swallow Tailed Coat

This 4 parted drum score for a traditional Irish tune was written back in 2007 for the Balagan concert band. We played it twice – second time through we added bass, guitar and drum kit. Since then this drum score has been played by a lot of drummers in Scandinavia for solo competitions. The drum score was written to fit the tune in a concert setting and not really as a competition type hornpipe as such. The written chips were meant Continue reading →

Ducking and Diving

This drum score was made for the Balagan concert band back in 2009. It was part of a hornpipe set that was played at a few concerts back in 2009 and 2010. The ending of each of the parts in the drum score can easily be adapted to something more suitable for your hands, without changing the overall sound of the ending too much, by for example Continue reading →

Cutting Bracken

This weeks score of the week was used as an intro to a medley played back in 2001 by a grade 4 band of combined bands, pipers and drummers to compete at the Danish Championships same year. The drum score is based on a standard 2/4 march score, with variations to fit to the piping tune. Beneath the snare score, there’s a layout for a bass/tenor score that could be split/voiced out to multiple tenors. Arranging a drum score like this, would be a great way to Continue reading →

Strutting Jig Hornpipe

So, this one does not start with a “C”. However the score of the week this time around, also came about when we started out with Balagan back in the fall of 2007. And yes, this will be the last posting of a Balagan score for some time. The theme for the next month will be beginner scores for everyone at all levels. The idea for this hornpipe was to have a short marching tune to walk to, in and out of sets and to have an enjoyable tune to play for e.g. encore – as in the video at the end of this post. Continue reading →