ASIDE: A Look Into One of my Freeform Electroacoustic Pieces: "Drums Only"

Inspired by the avant-garde composer that I never met, Salvatore Giovanni Martirano, I had decided on a free-form work that used my Kurzweil PC-88 synthesizer and used the "Kurz Clean Kit" as my drum palette for all of its 88-keys. I called this piece "Drums Only", and I had intended to dedicate the piece to Salvatore, but

regrettably, I was unable to do that--he died of ALS in 1996, so I was thinking of dedicating it to the

surviving members of the Martiranos, particularly Dorothy Martirano.

Here is the breakdown of the sections of this and thanks to my autism that caused me to fall in love with

the drums again, I think I felt a lot better as I tried to become the best composer ever in the

avant-garde music world....

2:07        acceleration

2:20        train effect (very fast)

2:42        cymbal crash

2:45        cymbal crash

2:48        cymbal crash

2:50        cymbal crash

2:51        cymbal crash

2:57        full series of cymbal crashes

3:08        slow-down

3:29        change to swing rhythm with cymbals

3:55        swing rhythm (more cymbals)

4:06        drum fill

4:08        cymbals

4:15        cymbals (ride/swing rhythm)

4:30        snare drums added to swing rhythms

5:01        hockets in snare drum

5:08        bass drum attacks

5:14        transfer to Latin (whites, congas, timbles)

5:44        claves and cymbals added to Latin rhythm

6:14        syncopated timbale rhythm (3:2 son clave)

6:43        full merengue rhythm and salsa rhythm (combined)

7:07        drum fill

7:08        full merengue rhythm and salsa rhythm (combined)

7:18        cymbal crashes (continuous) in merengue rhythm

7:55        tremolo and the slow down using all the instruments in Latin

8:15        change to rumba rhythm (contemporary)

9:10        cymbal crashes again (Latin triplet-style swing/blues

9:49        Ride and crash cymbal crashes with regular rhythm

10:11      crashes of cymbals in syncopation

10:26      change of rhythm--cymbals

10:35      disco/Latin fusion/Goin' guidance happy feeling

11:22      disco/Latin fusion/Goin' guidance (continues)

11:36      disco ends

11:40      new rhythm

12:00      big cymbal crashes

12:02      change of rhythm with bass

12:18      salsa

12:40      timbales added

13:00      drum fill

13:07      cha-cha rhythm (guaracha)

13:32      claves added to cha-cha rhythm

14:05      full cymbal crashes

14:28      rock rhythm

14:42      16th notes continuous bass or snare

15:00      accleeration (bass/snare/tom-tom)

15:14      fast snares (short rolls)

15:38      cymbal crashes and bass hits

16:00      tom-tom hits and slow down of bass drum

16:15      swing rhythm with tom-toms and snares only

16:38      big cymbal crashes

17:10      DISCO AGAIN!!!!

17:30      5 cymbal crashes in basic disco rhythm

17:54      claves and bells

18:02      house sounds and horn sounds

18:38      running 16th notes Latin style

19:28      running faster and faster

19:42      slower, and accelerating, still in that Latin rhythm

20:00      alternating rhythm of Fast Latin

20:10      no bass line

20:46      merengue again (with claves, no. 1 and no. 2)

21:24      claves

21:33      a la Tito Puente (Timbales!)

22:22      cymbal crashes

22:32      crash and hi-hats

22:42      slowing down again with claves (and grinder)

23:02      slow down again

23:21      acceleration

23:38      full acceleration (with bass, a la Buddy Rich)

23:59      cymbal crashes

24:04:00                cymbal crashes

24:40:00                raking tom tom

25:01:00                snare trum flams/flam taps

25:24:00                swing rhythm comes back again

25:39:00                swing rhythm with cymbals and snare

25:57:00                crashes

26:00:00                back to rhythm

26:10:00                Djembe rhythm

27:28:00                Whistle in the djembe

27:42:00                house drum hits in djembe

28:06:00                Chinese style with house and grinder

28:40:00                cymbal hi-hats and cymbals (still in djembe)

28:55:00                CHANGE OF RHYTHM

29:00:00                Ride cymbals

29:36:00                big cymbal crashes in djembe again

30:00:00                whipper snappers'

30:20:00                snare hits (rim shots)

30:47:00                Chinese sound goes back again in fast swing

31:11:00                change of rhythm

31:22:00                SAMBA!!!

32:20:00                whistles and Chinese hits in samba

32:48:00                slight changes in samba rhythm

33:12:00                change of percussion but still samba

35:10:00                house sounds in samba rhythm

35:36:00                end of samba

35:38:00                RUMBA

36:02:00                slight slap

36:11:00                PASO DOBLE

36:52:00                highlight cymbal crash (paso doble)

37:10:00                claves added to paso doble rhythm

37:44:00                finale of paso

37:51:00                back to the swing thing

38:21:00                big cymbal crash

38:30:00                5 cymbal crashes

38:48:00                house music

39:06:00                Chinese sound goes back in house music

40:00:00                little change in house rhythm

40:40:00                bass, bass and more bass (3-son clave)

41:00:00                running drum fills

41:22:00                hi-hat mainly solo

41:42:00                full fills

41:53:00                real cymbal crashes (continues)

42:10:00                running, acclerating tom toms

42:48:00                final flourish

43:12:00                end