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End Of One Year, Start Of Another!

January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · life of a percussionist

Christina posted a blog showing the rampant destruction that goes on around Summerglen at Christmas time, so I thought I’d give a shot of how some of that gets used! Here’s a view of the pit at the Durham Christmas Pageant in Page Auditorium at Duke.  This is actually a little bit smaller than my [...]

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My Kinko’s Moment

December 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · life of a percussionist

I’ve heard other composers talk about the joys of printing music at Kinko’s, and I finally had my moment! I feel like I’ve become a real boy!
So, here’s the story. I finished up a piece I’ve been working on, finally got it tweaked just right and laid out in Finale so it’s readable, and I [...]

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Weekly wrap-Up

November 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · life of a percussionist

Well, it’s been a busy week here at Summerglen/RhythmArt…

 My drumset method book is almost done, I’m just doing some final tweaking/editing stuff before I send it off to the printers. One thing that I’ve resolved to do before sending it is to play through every exercise in the book to make sure they work. That’s [...]

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Summertime

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments · life of a percussionist, upcoming gigs

So, it’s probably obvious from my lack of posts lately (or lack thereof), but I’ll go ahead and say it anyway – I’m in serious Summertime mode, and don’t feel like doing anything productive right now!
Last month was packed with writing as I got a start on my next Periculum release. Side effect of writing [...]

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