Product Description
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.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.