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
Tag Archives: Slow Air
Tommy Tullys Air
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
O Vale Dre Breizh Izel
This weeks shared drum score was written for the slow air O Vale Dre Breiz Izel. We played it in the medley of Cross Borders Pipe Band at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow in 2019.
For this particular drum score I chose to not have any Continue reading
Home to the Kyles
This weeks drum score was written for Holbæk Pipe Band back in 2001 for their medley selection – and a recording of the band competing with this drum score can be found out there in cyberspace on youtube. It was written for a competing grade 3 band and the drum score has some technical challenges which includes the Continue reading
The Crooked Bawbee
This drum score was written back in 2006 for a grade 3A band in Scotland to be part of their medley. It’s written for the tune The Crooked Bawbee – a 6/8 slow air. The level of the drum score would fit the experienced drummer. The tricky movement in there, would be the Continue reading