Today, I am releasing the first piece of music via this blog. It is a short percussion ensemble piece called Ode To Batman. The piece uses bells, vibraphone, marimba and drumset. While in grad school at Wichita State, I organized a percussion ensemble to play some pieces, mostly for entertainment. The group was called Marimba, Toms and Vibes (yes, MTV). We performed at recital hours and actually did a couple of gigs on campus at Dr. J. C. Combs' request. At the time that I wrote this, I was listening to some music that involved different rhythmic interplay. The Talkin Heads' Speaking In Tongues and Tom Tom Club's Close To The Bone are couple of albums that come to mind. This is a simple piece that has some of that same rhythmic device going on. The ensemble starts slow and funky and suddenly moves to double time. The double time section reminds me of the old 1960's Batman TV show, thus the name.Please be patient with the manuscript. I am learning to use the software and have not worked out all of the kinks. The drumset line is blank because I cannot get the software to let me enter anything on that line of the score. However, the drums should be playing throughout! The vibe solo should cover as many measures as needed.
This music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Comercial United States license. See this post for more license information.
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