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	Publisher: [[Tapspace]] <br/>		Publisher: [[Tapspace]] <br/>
	Difficulty: Intermediate <br/>		Difficulty: Intermediate <br/>

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	[https://youtu.be/lGUCmiOOVgM ~~Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Percussion Ensemble 2]~~		<embedvideo service="youtube">https://youtu.be/lGUCmiOOVgM </embedvideo>

	==Review==		==Review==

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	[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]		[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]
	[[~~Cayegory~~: Percussion 10 Works]]		[[Category: Percussion 10 Works]]

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Cost: $36.00
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[[Brian Slawson]]
==General Info==
Year of Published: 2017 
Publisher: [[Tapspace]] 
Difficulty: Intermediate 
Duration: 00:05:00 
Cost: $36.00 

==Description==
When You Hear the Drum by [[Brian Slawson]] combines two traditional chants - Sing We Now of Christmas and Fife and Drum - into a modern work for intermediate percussion ensemble. Perfect for any holiday concert, this piece is groove-oriented with many opportunities for players to step out and improvise a solo. With a wide range of parts from keyboard melodies to syncopated drum accompaniment, and fun accessories throughout, there is definitely a part for a student of any skill level in this fun holiday jam!

==Instrumentation==
Player 1: [[Piano]] & [[Claves]] & [[Crash Cymbals]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] & [[Tam-Tam]] (Large) 
Player 2: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Snare Drum]] 
Player 3: [[Marimba]] 
Player 4: [[Marimba]] & [[Crash Cymbals]] & [[Tam-Tam]] (Small) 
Player 5: [[Xylophone]] & [[Finger Cymbals]] & [[Suspended Cymbals]] & [[Hand Drum]] 
Player 6: [[Timpani]] 
Player 7: [[Drum Set]] 
Player 8: Concert [[Tom Toms]] & [[Bongos]] & [[Vibraslap]] 
Player 9: [[Triangle]] & [[Maracas]] & [[Tambourine]] & [[Claves]] 
Player 10: [[Chimes]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] & [[Temple Blocks]] & [[Bass Drum]] 

==Recent Performance==
[https://youtu.be/lGUCmiOOVgM Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Percussion Ensemble 2]

==Review==
“When You Hear the Drum” was commissioned by [[Jim McCarl]] and [[Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Percussion Ensemble]] from Melbourne, Florida. In one five-minute piece, [[Brian Slawson]] has managed to cleverly combine two well-known traditional chants: “Sing We Now of Christmas” and “Fife & Drum.” The arrangement is packaged in such a way that it’s accessible to almost any group of students. Parts are included on a compact disc for repeated printing (handy if students tend to lose parts!). One note for directors: the size of the score makes for laborious reading, since it’s printed on 8.5 x 11 paper in landscape format.

The tune begins sparsely, with solo floor tom (presumably to emulate a large Renaissance-type drum). Other instruments are slowly added to build a rhythmic texture, and then the melodic material arrives, given to the piano, glockenspiel, and marimba. Slawson does an admirable job of orchestrating these two folk chants. The melody parts are not doubled and are split between the different keyboards in an interesting fashion. The accessory parts are all properly scored and require no extended techniques. A successful performance of this tune will require players to employ a sense of long-term phrasing and accompany sensitively on all instruments.

The mallet technique required is minimal. These two-mallet parts are playable by students with little keyboard experience. “When You Hear the Drum” is appropriate for middle school and high school ensembles looking for an addition to their holiday concert program. It’s far too easy for college level players, and even high school students may get bored by the lack of advanced material. Stronger players in the ensemble should be given parts that allow solo improvisation in the culminating section, namely the hand drum, drumset, and Latin percussion parts.
Written by [[Philip O'Banion]] <ref>Percussive Notes Volume 56, No. 2, May 2018</ref>

==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
{{Slawson, Brian Works}}

==Reference==
[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]
[[Cayegory: Percussion 10 Works]]

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Publisher: Tapspace
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:05:00
Cost: $36.00
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