Foremost In Marching And Concert Percussion Literature PO Box 292671 Nashville, TN 37229 1-800-62-8001 FAX 1-615-885-0370 roloffcom by Dan Moore Easy-Medium - 3:0-11 Players Instrumentation, Xylo, Vibes, (2) Marimbas ( 1/3 oct), (3), 2 s, Field, Dee, Bass Drum, () Concert Toms,,, Ride Cymbal, Slash Cymbal, Susended Cymbal,,,,, Mounted Tambourine RACE THE DESERT by Dan Moore 201 by Ro-Loff Productions International Coyright Secured All Rights Reserved
Performance Notes Deserts are the hottest, coldest, driest laces on earth To travel across a desert, you must be ell reared to beat the elements before the elements beat you a race ith the desert Deserts make for exotic movie locales, as in the classics Larence of Arabia and Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or action adventures like Mad Max, The Mummy, and Raiders of the Lost Ark for ercussion ensemble might make a good soundtrack for a movie about an American rock band lost in the Arabian Desert They are catured by desert irates and forced to lay the music of Led Zeelin to gain their freedom Will they escae is a fast aced ercussion ensemble that features a mixture of eastern and estern rhythms and melodies, including drum grooves insired by Led Zeelin drummer John Bonham, and the exotic D Phrygian Dominant scale a favorite source of solo material of many rock musicians Other comositional elements include subtle hints of the Star Sangled Banner and the use of melodic hocketting in hich several voices share a melody by alternating notes beteen them A good choice for the is the Grover Pro Percussion Professional A second automobile brake drum or metal late may substitute the anvil For the bass drum, snare drum, tam tam art, set the instruments u ith the bass drum on one side, the tam tam on the other, and the snare drum directly in front of the layer At mm 57 the layer lays the bd ith one hand (ith bd beater) and the snare drum ith the other (ith snare stick) Use a nice sounding rock snare drum Drum Nerd Alert! This is the drum art to the oening of When the Levee Breaks by Led Zeelin as erformed by John Bonham For the glissando art on the bass drum, tam tam, snare art, the layer slides a triangle better across the face of the tam tam ust before the bass drum note The mallet arts are ritten using a comositional technique knon as hocketting in hich several instruments share a melody by alternating notes beteen them Used in conunction ith continuous eighth notes, hocketting creates an echo effect Each note change in a series of notes should be slightly accented and subsequent notes should get gradually softer Individual layers should give their hrases a nice exressive shae is a great vehicle for teaching individual exression on both itched and non-itched ercussion instruments Make sure the ercussion layers are grooving on their ostinatos too long hrases of reeated atterns should be shaed ust as much as melodic hrases
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