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Thursday, July 14, 2011

WMSWMB - The Percussion Parts, Notated

This is the second part of the "Welcome, My Sisters! Welcome, My Brothers!" series. If you listened to the song & followed along with the lyrics and melody of the song, you are ready to read along with the notated percussion parts, as presented here.

The parts are written out in traditional percussion notation. There are a lot of ways that people write out percussion parts, and many times, it is as difficult to decipher the alternative notation as it would be to simply learn to read traditional music. Truly, this notation is only intended to remind you of how something sounds, rather than as a means to learn something you've never heard. (That's why the audio file came first in the series.)

The individual parts have some additional instructions, such as high and low notes above and below the single line. (Most melodic music is written on a five line staff. This percussion music is written on a one line staff.) Those individual parts will be explored in the next posting of WMSWMB.

As with the lead sheet (lyrics and melody from my previous post,) I have not yet gotten to the point of posting a PDF of the music, but I have posted the two page JPG picture file. You should be able to print this off and use it as regular sheet music. It is two pages long, and if you print it, you should be able to follow along while you are listening to the sound file.  The first line is the introduction. The second line is the section that repeats during the body of the song, and the third line (second page) is the ending of the song. The talking drum part rests during the first time through the singing of the song, and then joins in during the interlude, continuing through the end of the song. This provides some contrast for the performance.



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