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Redeye

06-17-2008, 10:35 AM

Whats some pieces you've played in percussion ensemble?

Some of my recent ones were 4/4 for four and rising mercury. Both really cool pieces.

oh..and...FIRST POST IN THE NEW FORUM :D

Snakes&Arrows

06-17-2008, 10:37 AM

What's with all of your green rep and it's only your first post?

06-17-2008, 04:39 PM

What's with all of your green rep and it's only your first post?
Please tell me your kidding. He said THREAD not POST.... ;)

Snakes&Arrows

06-17-2008, 05:33 PM

Please tell me your kidding. He said THREAD not POST.... ;)

Yup. Just checking if anyone's paying attention. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Shawn Lafrenz

06-18-2008, 09:52 AM

Better yet - what was your single most favorite non-drumline, non-steel band performance in the last year? recorded or otherwise?

WRiddell83

06-18-2008, 08:14 PM

Here's a few great pieces I try to keep in my groups rep...

Ball Percussion - Reifeneder
Beirut - Steps Ahead arr. Rennick
Big Country - Fleck arr. Johannessen
Eulogy - Tool arr. Riddell
Metheny Dream - Metheny / Mays arr. Ancona
Omphalo Centric Lecture - Westlake
Pieces of Eight - Reeves
Technology - Casella

Marimba6

06-19-2008, 02:57 PM

My favorites are;
Ice Dance - Anders Anderstraand
Stubernic - Mark Ford
Afta-stuba - Mark Ford
Chick Corea's Children's Songs set #2 -Chick Corea arr. D. Steinquest
Highlife - I forgot who wrote that one

Shawn Lafrenz

06-23-2008, 01:24 AM

I think Highlife was Phil Fiani wasn't it?

Marimba6

06-23-2008, 09:18 AM

Yes, Highlife is by Phil Faini...I just was unable to remember at the time. Lot's of fun to work up when you have a large group.

Shawn Lafrenz

06-26-2008, 12:27 AM

Omphalo is a lot of fun to work up when you want something light but not "typical"
Westlake has a unique Australian sound. You need 4 decent marimbists to pull it together.

Talon

06-30-2008, 12:57 AM

Me and two of the blokes played Stubernic this year. We sucked pretty badly back in February, but we got it together for the State competition and it turned out very nicely. I have some video footage, but I'm too lazy to actually upload it to youtube or anything.

I'm not keen on most of the Rowloff kinds of ensembles. I feel like they're too basic and not advanced enough, but I did enjoy El Caribe.

A really great ensemble is Night on Bald Mountain (it's published by Drop 6). Wow, really great stuff.

UNFSUT

07-05-2008, 07:38 PM

Some of my favorites are:

*Blue Rondo A La Turk-Go Fish Music
Equal fire-Go Fish Music
*Ogoun Badagris-Christopher Rouse
*Ballet, The Highway, Heavy Metal, Identity Crisis, In the Hall of the Mountain King-All by Drop 6
Frankenstein-Row Loff (fun filler piece-opener maybe?)

If you go to www.norwinband.net (percussion link) you can hear our version of the pieces with the *
Also, we are on MySpace (Norwin Percussion Ensemble)

Thanks for this thread, I am going to check out some of the earlier suggestions for our rep. this year.

Thanks!

Kim Glover-WIFE of "DOC" listed below! :p
Norwin School District
Percussion Specialist
www.norwinband.net

Chloroformation

07-11-2008, 01:24 PM

my percussion ensemble did Frankenstein by Edgar Winter Group- we moved the guitar parts onto marimba, etc. it was awesome. we also did something called Noises on. here's the youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=m1pCE1c-2J0

UNFSUT

07-12-2008, 05:57 AM

Holy cow, did you guys use drill charts or what? AND pyrotechnics at the end???

Cool performance.

Chloroformation

07-12-2008, 10:16 PM

Holy cow, did you guys use drill charts or what? AND pyrotechnics at the end???

Cool performance.
Thanks!
We had a drill chart somewhere? I don't really remember learning it though, but I remember a packet with stuff like that in it. This is our schools huge fine arts show that costs like 20 bucks to get in so we could pretty much go crazy.

devildrums555

07-12-2008, 10:33 PM

Chloroformation

07-12-2008, 10:51 PM

Four of my school's percussionist did a bucket piece called "Smash Getaway". We did the hell out of it too... concert, tours, talent show. I have a DVD of it, but I don't know how to rip it and upload it to YouTube. Anyone know how?

can't help you with the tech stuff, but I know the piece, I did at my school, but we only played it for one show. It was seriously sweet.

we also did something called short circuits. check it out on youtube, theres a lot of good ones. it's basically a snare warm up with cool visuals.

UNFSUT

07-14-2008, 08:46 PM

can't help you with the tech stuff, but I know the piece, I did at my school, but we only played it for one show. It was seriously sweet.

we also did something called short circuits. check it out on youtube, theres a lot of good ones. it's basically a snare warm up with cool visuals.

I checked it out~! I just kept seeing dollar signs. I can't imagine with the black light you needed, the extra blue goo and the "outfits". Did you have to buy the black light?

Kim Glover

Chloroformation

07-14-2008, 10:48 PM

I checked it out~! I just kept seeing dollar signs. I can't imagine with the black light you needed, the extra blue goo and the "outfits". Did you have to buy the black light?

Kim Glover

well our school has one of the most funded fine arts programs in the country :p so we already had almost everything we needed!

glad you liked it.

UNFSUT

07-15-2008, 05:40 AM

well our school has one of the most funded fine arts programs in the country :p so we already had almost everything we needed!

glad you liked it.

...yeah, you suck. :) (talking about the funding of course). Seriously, though, that is really great that your school district understands. Ours does a pretty superior job for our area, but is NOTHING compared to the bigger BOA/Texas bands. Their's is OUTRAGEOUS...at least the marching side of things. How many kids do you have in your program (percussion)?

Does anyone know anything about Three Shades of C? Good or Bad? I am considering it for my 2nd tier kids.

Thanks!

Kim Glover
Norwin School District
www.norwinband.net

Chloroformation

07-15-2008, 05:52 PM

...yeah, you suck. :) (talking about the funding of course). Seriously, though, that is really great that your school district understands. Ours does a pretty superior job for our area, but is NOTHING compared to the bigger BOA/Texas bands. Their's is OUTRAGEOUS...at least the marching side of things. How many kids do you have in your program (percussion)?

Does anyone know anything about Three Shades of C? Good or Bad? I am considering it for my 2nd tier kids.

Thanks!

Kim Glover
Norwin School District
www.norwinband.net

our marching band director used to be the head marching band guy at UNC. He hired matt savage.

yeah, he's good.
our marching band is huge; maybe 40-50 people. our percussion ensemble ranges yearly from 15-20.

UNFSUT

07-16-2008, 05:59 AM

40-50 people? was that a typo or sarcasm? We are ProMark endorsers and use Matt's tenor sticks. Your PE is about the same size as mine. This is my fourth year at Norwin and I am loving it. The kids do what you tell them, for the most part, and just keep improving. We have 9 freshmen this year, which is good for the future, but means a growing year this year.

What are some other PE pieces you guys have done?

Kim Glover
Norwin School District
www.norwinband.net

nativeguy

07-29-2008, 06:31 PM

I absolutely loved the UMass Marimba ensemble performance of Bela Flecks "Big Country".

Here's the video:
http://www.vicfirth.com/features/UMASS_marimba_band.html

Oz Drummer

09-05-2008, 05:53 AM

At my school, we played a pretty fun piece called "Diners Club". It has 6 parts, 3 'waiters' and 3 'patrons'. The song is pretty much telling a story of people in a restaurant, waiting to get their food, and as the song progresses, the patrons get more and more impatient and start tapping on plates, cups, bowls etc. It's really awesome!
This link isn't me, but its the song I'm talking about - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WiSOPSiguOc

EBdrummer18

09-05-2008, 07:01 PM

Here's a few of mine...

Gilded Cage-Susan Powell
Uriel-Doug Rosener
Omphalo Centric Lecture-Westlake
Stubernic-Ford
Bicksa-(Can't remember???)
Gainsborough-Gauger
Ogoun Badagris-Rouse
Cloud Forest-Tyson
Exploration of Time-Kopetzki
Ionisation-Varese
Terra Cotta Warriors-Campbell

EBdrummer18

09-24-2008, 09:34 PM

More....

Limerick Daydreams-N. Daughtrey
Reconcilable Differences-L. Glassock
Sizzle!-N. Daughtrey

nofo955

11-09-2008, 06:08 PM

I have played No Exit and Cross Currents

BRX rad

01-22-2009, 05:55 PM

For me,

School's Out - Alice Cooper
Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas
Barracuda - Heart
YYZ - Rush
William Tell Overture

Yeah... my instructor was the sh*t :D

Chloroformation

01-22-2009, 06:24 PM

For me,

School's Out - Alice Cooper
Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas
Barracuda - Heart
YYZ - Rush
William Tell Overture

Yeah... my instructor was the sh*t :D

he must have been! you don't happen to have audio or video of any of those, do you? particularly school's out and yyz...

BRX rad

01-24-2009, 10:02 AM

he must have been! you don't happen to have audio or video of any of those, do you? particularly school's out and yyz...

Sorry dude, I don't :(

Chloroformation

02-19-2009, 04:10 PM

lame.

my schools doing another trash can piece similar to 'noises on'- the youtube link I posted earlier. it's written by one of our own students and is pretty awesome, imo. the show will be on march 14-16 so hopefully I'll post the video up around then.