Time for Toms Fambrough

Time for Toms FambroughPerformance Notes TIME FOR TOMS is a fast piece in cut time. This piece is suited for more advanced middle school to high school level percussionists. Rhythmically, TIME FOR TOMS consists of quarter and paired 1 8th notes with , and whole rests. TIME FOR. TOMS, starts in f with a call and response led by the conga drum. Letter A continues similarly with the bongos taking the lead, accompanied by the suspended cymbal and tambourine. The snare drum and

Dynamics are limited to p to mf

These Cadences are written for the instrumentation commonly found at the Middle School or Junior High Level

and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"

The technical requirements include repeated melodic motifs in the mallet parts with easy syncopation in all of the other parts

and time signatures of 2/4

Most holiday music for snare usually encompasses quarters

While everyone enters right from the beginning

This piece of music is my personal response to hearing about one of my former students being abused as a younger child

The premise of to this music is about a ship at sea

Letter F begins with a re-stating of the introduction

Rhythms are limited to quarter notes and rests and paired eighth notes

intermittently