Slawson-Santa's Strut (SP)-B/V/X/2M/2T/DS/P

In Santa’s Strut, Brian Slawson combines a funky drum set 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.

• Number of players: 10-11
• Difficulty: Elementary
• Instrumentation:
• Player 1: Glockenspiel, ratchet
• Player 2: Xylophone
• Player 3: Vibraphone, whip crack
• Player 4: Marimba 1 (4 octave)
• Player 5: Marimba 2 (shared w/Player 4)
• Player 6: Marimba 3 (4.3 octave), brake drum
• Player 7: Marimba 4 (shared w/Player 6), temple/woodblocks
• Player 8: 2 Timpani (26" & 29")
• Player 9: Chimes, sleigh bells, ribbon crasher, vibraslap, bell tree
• Player 10: Drum set