Detour

Brian Blume

General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: 00:03:00
Difficulty: Elementary
Publisher: Tapspace
Cost: $36.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Xylophone
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Marimba 1
Player 4: Marimba 2
Player 6: Chimes
Player 7: Timpani
Player 8: Concert Snare Drum
Player 9: Concert Bass Drum
Player 10: 4 Concert Tom-toms
Player 11: Hi-hat & Shaker
Player 12: China cymbal & Suspended Cymbal & Sizzle Cymbal & Triangle
Player 13: Tam tam & Wind Chimes & Temple Blocks

Program Notes

Detour, by veteran Tapspace artist Brian Blume, is a concise yet engaging journey through life’s little detours. Written largely in 5/4 at a moderately slow tempo, the piece makes for a nice challenge for a beginning-to-intermediate percussion ensemble as they detour their way in and around a four-chord motif. There is a section in the middle that features two short rhythmic solos on concert toms and snare drum. Blume masterfully crafts this work to be a balance between the excitement of stops and starts and the stability of solid, driving tempo control, and the 3-minute performance time is at just the right length to make the piece usable in a wide range of concert performance slots. Why take the same old path? A Detour may prove far more interesting…

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Marimba Solo

Like a Burden too Heavy
Stretch
Three Pieces for Marimba (Blume)
Unforced Rhythms
Winterludes

Snare Drum Solo

Kids These Days
Strands of Time

Multiple Percussion Solo

Psalm 104

Mallets Duet

Songs of Eden
Winterludes for Two

Percussion Ensemble

Alarm!
Black Racer
Detour
Friction
Hit It!
Persistence
Scenes from the Woods
Take Two
Under the Influence
West Winds