Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1032080
Composed by Dan c Gilbert. Instructional. Score and parts. 17 pages. Dan c Gilbert #4338781. Published by Dan c Gilbert (A0.1032080).
Picture this: you are a Middle-School Band teacher, with 55 kids signed up for band. Of those 55, 17 are drummers. You spend time thinking about how each student will get to play on 1, maybe 2, pieces for the concert, and then begin panicking when you realize that drummers sitting around idly in Middle School are prone to boredom, becoming chatty and distracting.
My solution? Create a Percussion Ensemble! Allowing you to whittle down the number of students in your Concert Band, while developing your percussionists reading and playing ability outside of Band, and honestly have a lot of fun doing it! The following piece is written for Percussion Ensemble. In my estimation, this would be graded somewhere between a 1 and a 1.5, and is a great primer for a bunch of eager drummers.
"Home Stretch" was written for a early-Middle School percussion ensemble, combining newer concepts of measure repeat signs, new note heads and lots of counting into a dynamic and fun piece. Division of parts can be based on skill-level and reading level, allowing for more advanced students to tackle more advanced rhythms, and less advanced a spot in the ensemble.
"Home Stretch" lasts for approx 1:27, although there is room for repeating sections (i.e., repeating back to mm 19 after completing measure 35) and a slightly slower tempo. Instrumentation is flexible, with rhythms being shared throughout multiple parts at any given time.
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