Par SLAWSON BRIAN. In Santa’s Strut, Brian Slawson combines a funky drumset beat and blues-like melodies to form an easy level percussion ensemble piece that’s perfect for a holiday-themed concert requiring minimal rehearsal time. After a brief introduction, the central section of the piece features the mallet instruments playing melodies based on a blues scale, which are contained in a 12-bar blues. These melodies are supported by a lot of fun, toy-like percussion accessories in the background such as sleigh bells, ratchet, temple blocks, vibraslap, and a whip crack. These are important musical concepts to introduce to young performers and Slawson does this in an accessible and fun way. Santa’s Strut comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing. / Niveau : Facile / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Percussions

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists an ensemble founded and directed by Diane Downs has been wowing audiences at national and regional PAS and MENC conventions for several years. Using music arranged by Diane these youngstersperform with a degree of enthusiasm and skill that is truly amazing. For the first time these distinctive arrangements are available in print – carefully edited by well-known educator/author Rick Mattingly.Eacharrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments. If you are looking to start up a percussion ensemble or need some entertaining program piecesfor your existing group this series is definitely for you!

This work highlights the sounds of instruments that, through the ages, have related the spirit of humankind to the rhythms of life, the heartbeat of the earth, and the motion of history. The piece begins with a magical snare drum rhythm, which intensifies with added bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, and timpani. The music progresses to a climactic, foot-stomping celebration of the drum! This piece is scored for eight snare drums, two cymbals, two small gong and tam-tam, bass drum, and timpani. / Percussions

Founded and directed by award-winning educator Diane Downs The Louisville Leopard Percussionists have been wowing audiences at national and regional conventions for years. In addition they were featured recently in the HBOFamily documentary The Music in Me in a segment entitled ?The Leopards Take Manhattan: The Little Band That Roared.? Here are the authentic arrangements by Diane carefully edited by well-known educator/authorRick Mattingly. Each arrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments.