Percussionists get really bored when they have to play chromatic scales with the rest of the band; while the brass players are figuring out embouchure changes and woodwinds are remembering fingerings, the percussionists just have to use the downstroke they learned on day one. Traumatic Chromatic makes things interesting for them.
Ralph Hicks wrote this piece around playing fast chromatic scales in a whole tone setting. The scale is broken down over the course of the piece - one hand at a time, both hands, and increasingly large groupings of notes.
Teach your percussion students the value of the chromatic scale in a way that's actually fun.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 2:20
Instrumentation:
- Player 1: Bells
- Player 2: Chimes
- Player 3: Xylophone
- Player 4: 4 Octave Marimba
- Player 5: Snare Drum, Flexatone, Tam-Tam
- Player 6: Bass Drum
- Player 7 (Optional): Crash Cymbals
- Player 8 (Optional): Tambourine, Temple Blocks
- Player 9 (Optional): Castanets, Ratchet, Triangle, Whistle
Traumatic Chromatic comes as a score, plus a CD that contains individual parts and an MP3 recording of the piece.
This piece is excerpted from Eric Rath and Ralph Hick's collabo(more...)
