Indoor Drumline Show - "Clockwork" - Eric C. W. Peel

Turn your volume up alot...

I named this ensemble halfway through the time composing it, which was about 2 years on and off. This is my first composition, and it started out only with marimba, vibraphone and xylophone. I had no idea it would have battery until several months after starting it. Listen for the clock sounds from the battery!!

Instrumentation: snares, tenors, 5 basses, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, chimes, and timpani.

I used Sibelius 5 for notation, Virtual Drumline 2 for samples, and CamStudio for screen capture

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[CisforClarinet]

This is such an awesome composition

[reeldeelpeel]

@CisforClarinet Thanks very much. Please check out my latest work!

[reeldeelpeel]

OK, so, to everyone who wants to make a criticism to the composition or notation elements of this piece, you really do not have to. Firstly, check out the date of the upload, it's more than 5 years ago, and I've been writing for about 6 years. Obviously I've learned a lot in the past 5 years, and obviously know all about professionally engraving a score that people would actually want to purchase. Secondly, check out my latest material. The endless critiquing over the years is just getting old.

[drumr1214]

While most of this show seems like it would be A to low A class, some of the bass stuff is mid to high A almost open class in some parts and then easy again. It has a tendency to not be unified in difficulty. IT's also far to short as an A class piece has to be between 4 and 6 minutes long. open and world can go longer. So you need to add another movement to it. But it sounds really good, if you were to fix my minor grievances I bet this could be a killer show for someone.

[reeldeelpeel]

@drumr1214 I wrote it mostly when I was 16 and didn't have much battery experience then, didn't even intend it to be an indoor show, so yeah I realize the title is a little misleading.

[shaunsalem]

Pretty impressive. Just avoid beaming over beats (i.e. grouping two dotted eighth notes together in measures where quarter notes are the beat). This of course skews the pulse and makes reading the work more complicated. In the first beat, use dotted eighth with a Sixteenth note tied to the next beat, then two eighths in the next beat - this accomplishes the same thing, but it keeps the beat clear. Little things like this improve the overall quality and professionalism of the work.

[reeldeelpeel]

@shaunsalem

I did not design it to be notionally correct much at all, just got the sound out there. All the notational errors have been fixed.

[garretthegrreatt]

@reeldeelpeel

I don't think i could insult this.

it's too good. :D

[tarnpreets916]

@reeldeelpeel Dude everyone can suck a dick. Ive been listening to this composition for 5 years now and it is awesome I can never get over it. It is awesome and no one deserves to critique it on youtube because they cant come up with half of the stuff you do. Youre a awesome composer and I bet I will be listening to this composition in another 5 years to guaranteed. and this is straight orgasm beginning to end

[drumcaptain52]

I really like the pit I just wish I could hear the drumline more.

[corvallishsdrumline]

This is awesome, just got our teacher to order it. Can't wait to play it!

[brendujames]

My school plays a clock like cadence, too. It's called Big Ben, and it sounds more like clock gears working. It's pretty intense, though not as intense as this.

[drumr1214]

@reeldeelpeel Ok then. It's really good for a show being written at 16. Sorry for all the criticism.