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First full run top down, solid progress!
#Libertango #marimba #percussion #practiceroom

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Slowly working back up this rag , got a month to clean it up here before I get to perform again! Been a few years, but easily one of the most fun styles to play as a percussionist IMHO. The crowd loves them, your grandma loves them, can’t go wrong!

#percussion #xylophone #rag

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gonna call this segment “Garage Rags” , or maybe dirty rags is more fitting depending on my runs

Irregardless, working up a rag for a recital next month, could play these all day, they’re just fun and timeless good music

#percussion #marimba #xylophone #ragtime

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only took 3 tries to get this one in ONE TAKE!

Jolting John by John S. Pratt - 110bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #practiceroom #marchingband

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I know some people really struggle with Sanford double beat and alternating between square measures and riding it over the bar line

So I composed this new variation to help you out, I call it:

Doub78 Beat (2026)
arr. Matthew R Tims

#percussion #snaredrum #drumline #practice

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is there a legitimate purpose of left hand rolls?

The Pine Cone Forest by John S. Pratt - 116bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #practiceroom #rudiments #drums

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Guidepost by John S Pratt - 76bpm

#snaredrum #percussion #marchingband

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this composition is called “Big Brain 8s”
played the same as what we all know and love, 8 on a hand, just written in a much more mature manner for us overthinkers

you might be asking “why?”

and it’s just important to remember that I didn’t ask for your opinion

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if you were giving me lessons, what would you tell me to work on?

Ruffing Up A Storm by John S. Pratt - 110bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #practiceroom #drums #marchingpercussion

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only few more Pratts for you people, then Im gonna post 8-on-a-hand every day just at different tempos.

No Left Flam 6/8 by John S. Pratt - 76bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #snare #rudimentaldrumming #marchingband

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need a new solo book in a few days, what’s worth buying these days?

Gladstone Cadets by John S. Pratt - 116bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #practiceroom #rudimentaldrumming

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stank face
I guess that’s what 3am Pratt does to ya

Stomping Through The Bar Line by John S. Pratt - 110bpm

#percussion #snaredrum #practiceroom #snare

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Just ignore the tick for me, will ya?
Dexterity by John S Pratt
110bpm

#snaredrum #rudimentalpercussion #percussion #practiceroom #musicschool

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first public progress post on this one, doing some daily left hand workouts getting tempo up, but man it’s finally in the range where it’s starting to dance! Super proud of this, hopefully next time you see this it’s an up tempo run!

Two Mexican Dances by Gordon Stout
~90-95bpm

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lesson learned, this is what it looks like to only practice easy keys (or none at all) for 15 years then have to re-work all those stupid awkward shapes everybody hates playing but are “good for you”…..character development or something like that

#percussion #marimba #arpeggio

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Critique me
#percussion #drums #snaredrum #johnspratt

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Some more Pratt for ya, with these old logs of sticks

Hodge-Podge by John S. Pratt - 120bpm

#snaredrum #percussion #drums #practiceroom

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In honor of awkward Sunday, here’s awkward arpeggios on my awkward height marimba with awkward-sized intervals

Do it right tho, and your rotations will burn when you’re done!

#marimba #percussion #music

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still revisiting the oldies, can ya blame me?
Flammus - old SCV - 104bpm
#percussion #marchingpercussion #snaredrum