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 very recently for the 6/8 march Dr. Ross’ 50th Welcome To The Argyllshire Gathering. A good drummer friend and former drumming student of mine had been asking me if I’d write something for this specific tune for a very long time. Finally I got it made. I’m not a super huge fan of the tune, mainly because of all the on beat taccums in there. Come, enough is enough. However, I finally made up something and wrote on paper, and I’m quite pleased with the result.
The score is meant to fit the level of an advanced drummer, and it has a lot of interesting single runs in there, as well as some Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score is another version of the 6/4 march Farewell To Nigg. It was written back in 2013 for a grade 4 drum corp to be played as the first tune in their march selection. The tune itself has some very long notes which delivers the dilemma; play the long roll, hold the break or fill the gap with rhythmic excitement. I’ve tried to Continue reading
This weeks drum score was written back in 2011 as a simple 6/8 drum score for first timers playing 6/8’s. The “only” really difficult thing in there is the drag, so that would require some attention, and slow practice to master. Overall it’s a really Continue reading
This weeks shared drum score was written back in 2011 for a Danish grade 4 band to be played in competition by a bunch of experienced drummers. It’s a tune that has a lot of space for long rolls, or breaks, or percussive/rhythmic show-off. Especially the run in the 2nd part is fun and challeinging to play together in a 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 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 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
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 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
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 drum score was written back in 2016 for a grade 4 band to be played in concerts. The tune a simply a masterpiece, in my opnion, written by Lincoln Hilton. When I was writing the drum score, I only had the sound of the tune and not the sheet music, so therefore I wrote the drum score in 6/8, although the tune is actually in 12/8. Bear that in mind when drumming this drum score. The drum score has some phrases where it’s a little bit tricky, but the most tricky thing would probably be 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
As part of my June challenge this year, of writing a drum score each day of the month, I got a request to try writing a simple drum score for some of the traditional and well-known tunes. So, I finally wrote a drum score for probably the most famous marching tunes in pipe bands: Scotland The Brave. I always really enjoy playing this 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
Following the statement I made on the facebook extension of this webpage, I decided to share a drum score meant to be played on a rope tension drum this week. The drum score was written for the Balagan concert band back in 2010 for a set of two traditional marches. In the first, this one, we only played two rope tension drums and the bass drum. For the second one, which I will share next week, we had one snare drum join in, and we also did some cool call & response with the different types of drums. The level of this drum score is at the beginner level. I find that when I write drum scores for the deeper and softer rope tension drums, it makes sense to make the beats simple for greater clarity and effect. My favourite part is the Continue reading