Cold Pressed

Cold Pressed is set up as a modified drum set with timbral notation, meaning each instrument is assigned a pitch and arranged like a keyboard. If you read keyboard music well, learning the notation will be a piece of cake. Syncopation, contrasting timbres and rock-influenced style are blended together in music which is vivid, spicy and obsessively persistent.

Program Notes

The term "cold pressed" refers to the method of extracting olive oil which results in the most robust and full-bodied flavor. Syncopation, contrasting timbres and rock-influenced style are blended together in music which is vivid, spicy and obsessively persistent.

Cold Pressed is set up as a modified drum set with timbral notation, meaning each instrument is assigned a pitch and arranged like a keyboard. If you read keyboard music well, learning the notation will be a piece of cake. This piece has been recorded by Joseph Gramley of the Ethos Percussion Group.

Grade Level: 4
Copyright: 1994
Number of Players: 1
Duration: 8:20

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Instrumentation

Snare drum, 2 toms, bass drum, bongos, tambourine, 3 cowbells, 3 woodblocks, temple blocks, crotales, 3 cymbals