Bombastix
General Info
Year of Published: 2018
Publisher: Row-Loff Productions
Series: Foremost in Marching and Concert Percussion Literature
Difficulty: Elementary
Duration: 00:03:05
Cost: $35.00
Instrumentation
Player 1A: Anvil
Player 1B: Brake Drum
Player 2A: Wood Block
Player 2B: Temple Blocks
Player 2C: Jam Block
Player 3: Snare Drum
Player 4: Tom Tom (High)
Player 5: Tom Tom (Low)
Player 6: Hand Drum
Player 7: Suspended Cymbal
Player 8: Timpani
Player 9: Bass Drum
Performance Notes
Set Up
Place your metals and woods next to one another. Group your snares, toms and hand drums together. The Timpani, bass drum and cymbals my be set-up behind this others.
Instrument Division
Bombastix was written with the intention of having the option to use many players. From the nine parts scored, add in the following order... evenly add one player to the snare, toms and hand drum parts, from there add oneplayer to the metals and woods parts. Then repeat the process bringing each part mentioned up to three players each. Only one player is needed for the cymbals, timpani and bass drum parts.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Small Ensemble
Concerto for Garage Band – Percussion Quintet; Percussion (5); Guitar; Keyboard; Bass Guitar
Cymbalectomy – Percussion Sextet; Percussion (6)
Drum Bizness – Percussion Quartet; Percussion (4)
DrumZuhBit – Percussion Quartet; Percussion (4)
Hipster –
Kaleidoscope (Crockarell) – Percussion Sextet; Percussion (6)
Katie's Bossa – Percussion Sextet; Percussion (6)
Sahara Dream –
Shimi, Shami, Shang! –
ShockuhFunk –
Shoe Bop –
Snaresville - Percussion Quartet
Snare Necessities - Percussion Quartet
Svengali
Synergy – Percussion Quartet; Percussion (4)
Taco Tico –
Tequila –
Timp or Mental - Percussion Quartet
Three Way Split – Percussion Trio; Percussion (3)
Under the Big Top –
Medium Ensemble
Circus, Circus! – Percussion (10)
Comic Relief – Percussion Octet; Percussion (8)
Dance of the Wind-up Toy – Percussion Octet; Percussion (8)
Glitzville! – Percussion Nonet; Percussion (9)
Kawf Dooda Code – Percussion Octet; Percussion (8)
Leetul Reekee –
Last Warrior – Percussion (10)
Outbound – Percussion Nonet; Percussion (9); Tape
Rocking Angel - Percussion (11)
Stratus – Percussion Nonet; Percussion (9)
Sushi Funk – Percussion Octet; Percussion (8); Bass Guitar
Large Ensemble
Curse Of Tortuga - Percussion (14)
Gorsky's Dream – Percussion (12)
Serengeti - Percussion (14)
Visions of Sugar Plums - Percussion 12
Flexible Ensemble
Hark, the Herald Bossa - 4 to 7 Players
Kawf Dooda Code - 8 to 16 Players
Kuhthunk! - 4 to 20 Players
Me Tarzan - 8 to 16 Players
Ensemble Collection
Pick a Key, Any Key - 5 or More Players
Yuletide Buckets - 4 to 16 Players
Drum It Down - Percussion Quartet