Ethnic Percussion Solo Sheet Music
Smith, Stuart S.-And Sometimes the Ears-Tenor pan (OS)
And Sometimes the Ears by Stuart Saunders Smith is a quirky 3 movement piece for solo tenor steel drum. Each movement capture distinct moods with an overall feel reflective of...
Williams-Rhythmic Journey No. 2: The Cage Sieve-Bodhran
The Rhythmic Journey series is an open-ended set of works for hand drums, written primarily for individual students, with the goal of exploring a particular musical genre, sty...
Cheung-Nian3-BD (Solo Version)
Nian3 is scored for solo bass drum. It is preceded by Nian2, which is scored for 6 drums and 6 cymbals/gongs. In Nian3, I wanted to experiment with expressing musical/artistic...
Moses-Island Riffs-M or Steel Drum
Island Riffs by Lennard V. Moses is a solo for tenor steel drum that can also be performed as a two mallet keyboard solo. This short composition is based upon some calypso sty...
MacDonald-Alap-(Tabla) OS
Alap by Payton MacDonald is a solo tabla and may also be realized as a solo multiple percussion piece. The title comes from the first part of the first half of a classical Nor...
Robinson-Global Positions-Ghaval
Global Positions by N Scott Robinson is a solo for the Azerbaijani tambourine called ghaval. This piece makes use of modern cross-cultural frame drum techniques, European, Ori...
Williams-Rhythmic Journey No. 1: Conakry to Harare-Tar
Rhythmic Journey No. 1 (Conakry to Harare) for solo tar was written by B. Michael Williams for Michael Scarboro. The piece begins with rhythmic motives inspired by West Africa...
Moses-Tropical Winds-M or Steel Drum
Tropical Winds by Leonard Moses is an island influenced piece that can either be played on steel drum or marimba.
Morleo-Oltre La Linea di Fuoco 1 - P
Oltre La Linea di Fuoco by Luigi Morleo is a solo piece for berimbau.
Chen-Colors Of Naobo-Chinese Cymbals (pair)
To celebrate her 50th birthday, legendary percussionist Evelyn Glennie asked her favorite composers to write short solo works as performable gifts. Chen Yi responded with Colo...
Schirripa-Portraits from a City Window-Tenor steel pan
As implied by the title, Marco Schirripa's Portraits from a City Window explored four different scenes one may observe from such an angle. "Morning Light" represents the beaut...
Lapio-Jumbie Jam Popular Songs Bk. 1 (CD)
Jumbie Jam Popular Songs Book 1 was written to help the beginner to intermediate steel drum player advance their skills and to enjoy playing familiar songs on Steel D...
MacDonald-Jhala-Tabla OS
Jhala by Payton MacDonald is a solo tabla and may also be realized as solo multiple percussion piece. The titles come from the first, second, and third parts of the first half...
Sheronick-Manhattan Ave.-Frame drum
Manhattan Ave. was written in conjunction with Yousif Sheronick's online frame drum course Frame Drums 101. It serves as a quasi "final exam" to showcase what students have l...
Forsthoff-Riq, Roll'd-Riq
Riq, Roll'd , my second composition for solo riq (a tambourine played throughout the Middle East but particularly in Egypt), was commissioned by Matt Geiger for his senior rec...
MacDonald-Jor-(Tabla) OS
Jor by Payton MacDonald is for solo tabla and may also be realized as a solo multiple percussion pieces. The titles come from the second, part of the first half of a classical...
Floyd (arr.)-Be Thou My Vision-Solo tenor steel pan
This arrangement of Be Thou My Vision for solo tenor pan requires four mallets throughout which enables the performer to execute four-note chords in a ballad setting. The util...
Forsthoff-Parampara-Frame drum
Parampara was written in two days in April, 2003 and received a major revision in October, 2004. The title is an Indian word which means "lineage." The piece began simply enou...
Bach-Sonata No. 1 for Violin arr. Berry-Tenor pan
A beautiful adaptation for C Leadpan, of the Adagio movement of J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 1 for violin. Highly appropriate for both church and recital settings. The duration is a...
Mazan-Ocean Sketches-Tenor steel pan
Ocean Sketches by Brent Mazan is a three-movement work for solo tenor pan in which each movement captures an image of the ocean. The first image, Ocean Floor, is simple but fa...
