Slawson-When You Hear the Drum (SP)-B/C/X/M/2T/P/PN

In When You Hear the Drum, Brian Slawson combines two anonymous traditional chants, "Sing We Now of Christmas" and "Fife & Drum," into a modern groove-oriented holiday jam. There are opportunities for soloists to improvise, various syncopated rhythmic challenges, and tons of textural variety for the young percussion ensemble to sink their teeth into. A holiday program would definitely benefit from this little gem!

This piece comes with a full, bound score and includes a CD-ROM containing an audio recording and all individual parts available for printing.

Number of players: 10
Difficulty: Intermediate

Instrumentation

Player 1: Xylophone, finger cymbals, high and low hand drums, suspended cymbal, chimes (shared w/Player 2)
Player 2: Chimes (shared w/Player 1), concert bass drum, temple blocks, suspended cymbal
Player 3: Marimba 1 (4.3 octave, shared w/Player 4)
Player 4: Marimba 2 (4.3 octave, shared w/Player 3), small tam tam, crash cymbals
Player 5: Piano, claves, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, large tam tam (shared w/Player 7)
Player 6: 2 timpani
Player 7: Snare drum, glockenspiel, large tam tam (shared w/Player 5)
Player 8: Claves, triangle, tambourine, maraca
Player 9: 2 concert toms, bongos, vibraslap
Player 10: Drum set