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For four players on five bass drums
Ben Zucker
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
-Bruce Lee
~Each bass drum should be tuned differently; position them in a line in order from lowest to highest.
~Each performer should be between two bass drums (so the entire setup is a line of drum/performer/drum/performer etc.).
~Each performer has similar large beaters, and counts the time in seconds.
~The beater is swung with a wide dramatic swath with the whole body, somewhere between taiko drumming and hitting a
baseball.
~The hits are notated as follows:
Top column: L or R: which drum the performer hits
Middle column: 0-5: indicates volume/how hard the drum is hit, 0 being imperceptible, not actually touching the drum, 1
being quiet, 5 being loudest.
Bottom column: 1-5: indicates how long the gesture of hitting the drum should last in seconds, i.e. 1 being 1 second or
fast; 5 being slower.
~ When the performer has played the last hit, they lift out of stance into standing and raise the mallet over their head,

-June 24, 2013


Paris, France

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