#percussionists

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas season

(Yes, I know, you non-musical heathens! Christmas music is starting now)

I also wish:

-all strings minimal crumbling of rosin blocks

-all violins minimal Eb on the A string

-all violas minimal jokes directed toward them

-all percussionists minimal tempos beneath 50 bpm

-all woodwinds minimal triplet scale patterns at high tempo

-all reeds minimal mixing up of chapstick and cork grease

-all brass minimal rusted/stuck spit valves

-all french horns minimal pulling out of every single tuning slide to find the condensation that's hiding from you

-all trombones minimal B naturals with no F attachment

-all vocalists minimal mic troubles during solos

-all altos minimal staying on mi for half the song

-all basses minimal being ignored by everyone else

and most importantly

I wish everyone

Minimal

Do you ship it?

Reason:

So i was in marching band, and we were practicing drill because Festival is coming up on Monday. (If you’re not in band, drill is where we are on the field for our halftime show and Festival is our big yearly competition with other bands). I was on the hash (line on football field), so as a joke one of the other kids in drumline called me hash-boy. Funny, i laughed, i love that people are calling me a guy now. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (two annoying ass transphobic guys who play the snare drum) overheard and of course had to “correct” him. Dee: “That’s a woman.” Dum: “No, that’s an it. A creature.” (Little do they know, while I don’t particularly like it/its pronouns, I am not opposed. And being called a creature is kinda cool) Dum, thinking: “Hash-It” Dee and Dum, having an epiphany: “HATCHET!”

Hi all! So, exciting news: my work for solo percussion, Just Ordinary (2019) is published through Media Press Music!

You can purchase the score on their website!