Catalog Sample Hub
List is alphabetical, regardless of instrumentation.
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Included files, Thumbnail Images, Perusal Scores, Computer Reference Recordings, Score follower videos where applicable.
Also included: difficulty, duration, required percussion, and info blurb.
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Concert Band - Grade 2 - 3:30 - 8 Percussion
A Brief Sojourn Perusal Score 2022
A Brief Sojourn Computer Reference Recording
A Brief Sojourn Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - A Brief Sojourn was commissioned for the J.O. Kelly Middle School Band in Springdale, Arkansas, which happens to be the school where my life in band began.
This is a slow, melodic piece, working to develop phrasing and musical expression. Though the flute has occasional 2 note chords, only the clarinet and trumpet have divided parts. It calls for 8 percussionists but could be played by 7 if needed (and if you have a coordinated player to jump quickly between suspended cymbal and crash cymbals). Though the mallet parts overlap at times, they are mostly unique and require players that can play confidently by themselves.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 2 - 4:25 - 14 Percussion
Awakening Storm Perusal Score 2022
Awakening Storm Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - Awakening Storm starts as a light drizzle of rain, then by using motivic development in the melodic percussion and rhythmic parts that get more and more groovy, the piece builds to a torrential downpour.
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Concert Band - Grade 3 - 4:00 - 6 Percussion
Blue Computer Reference Recording
Blue Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Blue is the second movement of my first suite for concert band, “Primary Colors”. But it also stands as a piece on its own.
This piece is built around emotion, specifically sadness and the anger that often follows. With that comes many opportunities to practice phrasing and musical expression.
If you like this piece, check out the full suite, “Primary Colors”.
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Concert Band - Grade 2 - 2:20 - 4 Percussion
Chariots Computer Reference Recording 2022
Info Blurb - This piece is built around basic quarter note and eighth note rhythms in the winds, specifically an “eighth note grid” where I take 2 eighth notes and move them around to different beats within a measure.
Only the clarinets and trumpets have divided parts, though there are some optional lower octaves written in the flute part.
The percussion move on to slightly more complex rhythms involving eighth rests and basic groupings of sixteenth notes.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 4 - 6:00 - 14 Percussion
Fading Away Perusal Score 2022
Fading Away Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - Fading Away was originally composed for an Indoor Concert Percussion ensemble for use in WGI competitions. It was also later re-arranged into a marching show called “Red Shadow”.
This piece goes through a few different sections to provide a few different opportunities to learn different musical styles. From bombastic, aggressive, and driving, to melancholy and ballad-like. There is even an opportunity to feature a drum set soloist near the end if you wish, though I’ve also written a soli to be played by the many players in that section if you prefer.
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Concert Band - Grade 2.5 - 2:40 - 6 Percussion
Fog of War Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - In this quasi-overture-style piece, you have the chance to work on several different styles. A minimalist groove-based opening, lyrical ballad, call to battle with a fanfare section, and a closing section that slowly builds intensity to the finish.
The trumpets and clarinets are the only instruments with divided parts. The percussion section is written for six but could be pulled off with five.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 3 - 3:10 - 10 Percussion
Groove Juice Perusal Score 2022
Groove Juice Computer Rendered Audio
Groove Juice Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Groove Juice” is a percussion ensemble that strives to groove at every moment possible; whether it is a rock-groove, march-groove, or just a subtle groove that makes you want to bob your head. If you find yourself moving to the music at any point during this piece, then I have accomplished my goal.
This piece uses basic 4 mallet technique in the marimba part.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 3 - 3:10 - 12 Percussion
In Hot Pursuit Perusal Score 2022
In Hot Pursuit Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - This piece is based around changing time signatures (4/4, 3/4, 2/4), accents, and short bursts of 16th notes. It also really digs into the dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythm. And if you’ve got someone who knows their way around a hi-hat, they can make this piece really sparkle.
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Concert Band - Grade 2 - 3:00 - 8 Percussion
Loot The Room Perusal Score 2022
Loot The Room Computer Reference Recording 2022
Loot The Room Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Loot the Room is a programmatic piece inspired by tabletop adventure games. It crawls its way through several different styles and gives you a chance to introduce your percussionists to hand drums as well as basic multi-percussion. It also introduces the winds to basic fanfare style and a brief journey into G-Major.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 2.5 - 2:22 - 8 Percussion
Octo Delta Charlie Perusal Score 2022
Octo Delta Charlie Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - With this piece, I tried to recapture some of the excitement and groove of my first percussion ensemble, Alpha Bravo Niner, available through Row-Loff Percussion. In my opinion, this piece is the sequel to that piece and is meant for players have developed beyond the difficulty of Alpha Bravo Niner.
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Brass Band - Grade 4 - 2:00 - 6 Percussion
Quasi-tonal Fanfare - Brass Band Version - Perusal Score 2022
Quasi-tonal Fanfare - Brass Band Version - Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - Originally written for a standard brass choir, this version has been reworked to fit the standard instrumentation of a British Brass Band.
Quasi-tonal Fanfare for Brass and Percussion starts with a flurry of double tonguing in the trumpets, then rips into a whole series of sections that jump around tonality at random, sometimes following harmonic structures, sometimes not.
The percussion is used not simply as support for the brass, but as an equally important voice, weaving in and out of the texture, supplying important direction and momentum to the piece.
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Brass Choir - Grade 4 - 2:00 - 6 Percussion
Quasi-tonal Fanfare - Brass Choir Version - Perusal Score 2022
Quasi-tonal Fanfare - Brass Choir Version - Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - Quasi-tonal Fanfare for Brass and Percussion starts with a flurry of double tonguing in the trumpets, then rips into a whole series of sections that jump around tonality at random, sometimes following harmonic structures, sometimes not.
The percussion is used not simply as support for the brass, but as an equally important voice, weaving in and out of the texture, supplying important direction and momentum to the piece.
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Concert Band - Grade 5 - 6:45 - 8 Percussion
Red Computer Reference Recording 2022
Red Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Red is the third movement of my first suite for concert band, “Primary Colors”. But it also stands as a piece on its own.
This piece uses angular rhythms, disjunct melody lines, and big chords to convey what the color red means to me. There are moments of intricate and independent percussion lines that swell into the full band acting as percussion with short, crisp notes on their instruments as well as moments of dark wind chords. And it wouldn’t be a piece about the color red without a little homage to a heartbeat.
If you like this piece, check out the full suite, “Primary Colors”.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 2 - 3:00 - 8 Percussion
Security Breach Perusal Score 2022
Security Breach Computer Reference Recording
Security Breach Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - This piece was written as a way for young percussionists to get some time on marching instruments before they join the marching band, It’s based around the concept of double-beat and a 16th note grid. It starts as a conventional concert percussion ensemble, but halfway through, everyone except for the hi-hat player moves to a marching drum to play some grooves that will further reinforce the technique of double-beat, while also sounding pretty cool! Then everyone returns to their original instruments to finish out the piece.
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Concert Band - Grade 2 - 2:20 - 8 Percussion
Shadow Grooves Perusal Score 2022
Shadow Grooves Computer Reference Recording 2022
Shadow Grooves Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Shadow Grooves is a combination of minimalist and rock-type grooves with a quasi-ballad section in the middle just to round things out.
The flutes, clarinets, trumpets, and trombones have divided parts while all other winds have a single line.
The percussion parts run the gamut from a tasty flam and syncopated accent-filled snare part, to drum set inspired cymbal and bass drum parts, to scale-filled mallet parts, and some fun accessory percussion parts to finish things out.
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Percussion Ensemble - Grade 4 - 5:00 - 11 Percussion
The Great Divide Perusal Score 2022
The Great Divide Computer Reference Recording
The Great Divide Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - The Great Divide was originally composed for an Indoor Concert Percussion ensemble for use in WGI competitions.
It is based on the idea of sounds bouncing from one side of the ensemble to the other. It also has an extensive section incorporating an alternating 4/4 and 7/8 groove.
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Concert Band - Grade 2 - 2:45 - 10 Percussion
The Midnight Circus Perusal Score 2022
The Midnight Circus Computer Reference Recording
The Midnight Circus Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - This piece has a bunch of quirky solo and soli opportunities scattered throughout the ensemble (I hope you’ve been practicing your chromatic scales), a chance for trombones to finally dig into some glisses, and here’s your chance to use all those silly sounding instruments in your percussion cabinet! (And I encourage you to add even more chaotic sounds to the mix if you wish)
The clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, horn, and trombones all have divided parts, while all other winds are single lines. The percussion parts are quite individualized, especially the mallets.
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Brass Quintet - Grade 3 - 2:45 - 0 Percussion
The Midnight Circus Brass Quintet Version Perusal Score 2022
The Midnight Circus Brass Quintet Version Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - “The Midnight Circus” was originally written for concert band. I was listening to it one day and thought it might work well as a brass quintet, though the piece has changed a bit from the band version since I had fewer parts to work with, it still holds true to the original piece. If your brass players enjoy quirky solos and solis, trombone glisses, and lots of chromatic runs, I bet they’ll enjoy this piece!
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Concert Band - Grade 2.5 - 3:15 - 5-10 Percussion
The Veil Between Perusal Score 2022
The Veil Between Computer Reference Recording
Info Blurb - Though “The Veil Between” starts slow and ominous, it quickly picks up the tempo with a driving bass line and melody that pushes throughout the piece.
The middle section is filled with creepy percussion instruments, including bowed cymbals and super ball mallets on gongs and timpani. Your percussionists are sure to enjoy trying out these cool sounds.
Every person on a melodic instrument gets the melody at some point in the piece. I just liked the idea of someone starting to play the melody as people were getting ready for rehearsal and anyone else being able to join in! Plus, I thought it might make it easier to teach the style of the melody if you could do it as a full group.
This piece was originally written for 5 percussionists. After finishing the piece I was asked to add in more percussion, a task which I was very excited to do! The benefit of this is that this piece can be played by as few as 5 percussionists, or as many as 10 (or more)!
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Concert Band - Grade 3.5 - 5:10 - 6 Percussion
Threshold Computer Reference Recording
Threshold Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Threshold is meant to portray time slowing down as you approach a black hole due to Gravitational Time Dilation. As such, I took a melody and reworked it in several different time signatures, to allow you to feel it stretch out or shrink, leading to moments where time basically goes out the window with prolonged moments of aleatoric metallic cacophony in the percussion section.
Mixed in with the increasing and decreasing time signatures is something loosely resembling a fugue subject in the woodwinds. I’m not sure where it came from, but I love the feeling it gave this piece.
By the way, I always thought it would be really cool if, during the end of the piece, the percussion could be spread throughout the performance venue to create a true surround sound experience, playing the aleatoric motive all around the audience. (Maybe even let some of the audience members participate too!) ...just a thought.
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Concert Band - Grade 3 - 6:20 - 8 Percussion
Why do we Fall? Perusal Score 2022
Why do we Fall? Computer Reference Recording
Why do we Fall? Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - This piece is a slow, reflective piece, meant to capture the feeling of Autumn. I wrote it while watching the leaves change color and eventually fall from the trees through my office window, after all. (I miss that view).
It has several solos and soli opportunities sprinkled throughout, especially in the flute. And because I always felt sad that percussionists often got left out of the slow emotional pieces, I did my best to write parts to include a few more of them than you see in typical slow band pieces.
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Concert Band - Grade 4 - 4:00 - 7 Percussion
Yellow Computer Reference Recording
Yellow Score Follower Video Link (Youtube)
Info Blurb - Yellow is the first movement of my first suite for concert band, “Primary Colors”. But it also stands as a piece on its own.
This piece is meant to be a joyous, up-tempo piece to make you smile. Using minimalist elements and flourishes from the woodwinds I attempted to capture the sounds of the sun, games at recess, and the carefree fun of childhood.
Yellow was chosen as a finalist in the Third Annual Frank Ticheli International Composition Contest.
If you like this piece, check out the full suite, “Primary Colors”.
