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What's up with your drum parts?

I don't see any drum parts. No, I don't include percussion parts on my sample scores. Percussion sections vary wildly; one band my have a huge corps-style floating battery and a dozen people on the sideline; another may have have a four-member pit. It's impossible to write parts that will work well with both.

Drum parts also make for a crowded score, especially on standard size paper. I opted for a larger, easy to read wind score.

But I hear drums in your recordings. The music sounds better with percussion, and I know that everyone will add percussion when they perform the show. I know that many bands have a percussion person on staff who will arrange custom parts for your exact instrumentation.

I'm going to need drum parts! I will supply a basic drum score and parts with every arrangement. For a small-to-medium size pit section these parts will be perfectly usable. If your band has a large battery and plays complex rudimental percussion, I'm sure you have a percussion instructor on staff who will arrange your percussion parts. My parts can serve as a starting point, showing the style and hit points I had in mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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