Carolina Crown 2024 - Full Percussion Score 

Had that exact same reaction at San Antonio lol

Is shah, gone too? That's a shame. They created a great product given the show design.

@@babboonMike and Shah travel as a team and take their percussion team with them (e.g. Jared Andrews)

huge W

Notation: Sibelius Sounds: - Battery: Virtual Drumline - FE: Virtual Drumline + East West Symphonic Orchestra Timpani + Sonic Couture Marimba + Waves Cymbals Sound Design Playback - MainStage If you want to learn how I produce / playback everything in realtime checkout: www.prmworkshops.com/AudioPlaybackMagic

It was actually a lot of fun personally getting to know John and geeking out over our respective processes. The entire opening percussion feature was a puzzle piece that needed some solving in the mapping of the show - John had originally written the top of the movement as a building / driving front ensemble texture that later introduced the battery voice. Due to the program and the visual event pacing - when we got to that spot in the show we decided to create a battery focused introduction. But since we really loved the harmonic language and the development of what John originally wrote it took a problem solving approach to the top. What I ended up doing was taking John’s original and loading it into Logic as all midi. I grouped all the mallet stuff together and put them on some synth style keyboards and added a ton of reverb. So what you’re hearing in the sound design at the top of that movement is the original midi but treated with a ton of reverb so you get this blurry harmonic development. Then Mike composed over that pacing - and then I went back and orchestrated the FE and tried to pull from the original some motivic fragments to tie the front ensemble together with the battery. One of these days I’ll share a video of the process 😄

@@KevinSShah wow, thank you for sharing!