Altitudinal Adventure - Indoor Show - Eric Peel

[@503music6]

we need an update! Thank you so much for sharing your music with me and others! I absolutely adore it, i'm making my indoor percussion show too, and I hope to drum-stick to the plan!

[@adamholm2436]

Pit entrance at the start of the closer is amazing. This show is really cool; think I can learn a thing or two just listening

[@EricPeelMusic]

@smeadog2010 Great! I'm excited to hopefully be able to see a recording of your performance ;)

[@Luna-ts2lp]

We are playing Altitude for indoor this year! I am extremely excited!

[@EricPeelMusic]

Wooo! Awesome! Thanks for letting me know! If you are a student, can you bug your teacher to get a video recording of you guys up on youtube?

[@fruitbasket2468]

I like how all your pieces have this refreshing quirky, intelligence behind them - they're all very well thought out and they all seem to have a message. Clearly you are not just putting out pretty-sounding music - I like reading your descriptions about the music and explaining it in a way a non-musical person like myself can understand.

[@tonylaf123]

I actually didnt listenned this piece yet, but it will be awesome, I just discovered about you BUT I CANT STOP!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@meatwad314, I already have a piece called "Escaping a Nightmare", and there is of course the movie and arrangement "The Great Escape", it's over-used. This is much more original, and more badass if you understand the play on words.

[@maddmatt361]

THIS IS AWESOME! Great! work! I find it more entertaining the listen to then any other indoor show i've ever listened to. Its so...musical! Yet true to what it should be, drums and percussion! Awesome job Reeldeelpee!

[@Alo42424]

I have seen ALL of your music and videos and they are MIND BLOWING!! You really do have a talent for making music! and im sure you've realized that already because the music you make makes people happy and exciting! its just awesome! You really got to keep making music and and people will buy your music(not that they arent now)then you will probably be the next Best Musician and it can be possible if you keep on making good making good music like you are now! Thanks for the music and great job!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@jdorsuhm, I'm thinking of cutting a lot of parts from this 9 minute thing to keep it all under 7 minutes so it can potentially be marched for WGI events. And the whole end part after the last hit would be cut, just leaving that last hit as the ending, with maybe a more relieved variation. Not sure yet though. Thanks for your thoughts either way, glad you think it sounds good.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@drummerchris83, Thanks for the compliments :) I started with percussion in school band in 6th grade, and have taken lessons from several percussionists since then, yes, bust mostly use lesson books.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@fuguesofamnesia, Thanks so much for favoriting and subscribing :) I look forward to hearing your feedback on future pieces. I appreciate your compliments.

[@Masieono1]

Wow. I got Virtual Drumline 2.5 for christmas (wanted it for a while) and i've been anticipating writing music like this. This gives me alot of inspiration. Good job man, Merry Christmas!

[@DavidThePercussionist]

Same

[@yoyo19273]

youtube needs a love button because i absolutely LOVE this

[@tubafleetensign]

this is amazing! sounds awesome from beginning to end great job

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Dummersrock, Yeah, I added an extra measure to give mallet players more time to change back to keyboards from all the latin percussion.

[@TomAndJerry87]

We might use this for our very first indoor line show! I'm super excited :D

[@leemcd56]

I love it Eric! Congratz on the completion!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@ellins12, The marimba and vibraphone parts all have 2 and 4 mallet sections, and the xylophone and bell parts are 2 mallet.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Tenorcapacity121, You CAN write music for instruments you can't play. For example, I wrote a brass chorale (kinda sucks, but that's beyond the point) and I have a friend who is track-recording all the parts. With some knowledge of transpositions and instrument ranges, music can be written for any instrument by anyone.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@ZMaine, Thanks Zach. I appreciate it. I'm glad you enjoy it. Remember, I'm only a percussionist, I can't do crap elsewhere, lol. Happy holidays btw.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Guitarwithwertyloops, Thank you! Yeah, it turned out pretty nice, made it seem like it "wanted" to get back into the melody of Valley.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Masieono1, It's some good sampling. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you as well.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@rikuantu It depends on how large your drumline is and how many of each of the mallet parts you utilize. At a very minimum, 23 players, with minimal pit parts and no cymbal line. But I recommend keeping the cymbal line and having between 30 and 40 players.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@YogSothothOfGuitars, I've been here and there with percussion and drumline stuff, yeah. And yeah, people have been transcribing and offering my ideas for free.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Friedoyster3, probably 30-40, depending on how many players would be in the battery, and if all pit parts would be covered.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@DaBomb1713 Thanks! I'm happy with how that part turned out too.

[@EricPeelMusic]

Wow, I thought you were going to view and comment every piece of mine. 9 pieces is quite a good amount of comments, haha. Thank you very much! Yes, you nailed it. I like to use music to create a product out of overlooked, everyday things. I like weird analogies and plays on words too, I think they give the music some depth, provoke thoughts while listening. Thanks very much for listening and commenting! It was a very nice to surprise to see all your comments.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@drumnbass91, Thanks, I hope so. Merry Christmas to you as well.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@theDrumkilla, I understand what you mean about Cavaliers' music arrangers and the way they write. I get a lot of influence from drum corps (obviously), but I'm honestly not really sure where it came from for this one. Thanks a lot though, I really appreciate your compliments :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

At the time, I had a 2 GHz dual core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've always had a laptop, never liked desktops. It doesn't take too much to run these programs, although this particular piece did cause many hiccups.

[@CSRobertGarrett]

freakin amazing! i love how it flows so well, and the insane mallet runs make it even better :D idk if i could play quite this well yet. im good but not /that/ good. ill bet my section leader Valerie could though. shes amazing! Lol

[@EricPeelMusic]

@SnareKidJoel, First, thanks for all your compliments and acknowledgements. And I agree, it may have to be more of a standing concert/battery percussion ensemble. But, I do plan on cutting some parts to keep in under 7 min, like as a different version. I actually haven't looked much at the live velocities, I thought they played back automatically with different dynamics, if that makes sense. If you notice I'm doing something without it's full potential, please help me by all means!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@MatthewGmen, Thanks for listening that far! It would have been cool to put that there, and I was thinking about it too honestly. I decided I'd rather have a bar of silence with an added beat to cause the ultimate heart attack instead. I appreciate your ear's opinion with the music, and for listening intently :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@thebigc910 Thanks, I'm glad you like the melody I used!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Alo42424, Thanks, I really appreciate your interest and enthusiasm :)

[@rohiogerv22]

Can't personally say I like the flow of the name. "Wellness" just feels like such a neutral word. The piece, however, is amazing.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@dethangel201, Thanks! Yeah, it would be interesting to see live :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@leemcd56, I'm glad you like it Nate, thank you :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Tenorcapacity121, It's not necessarily an "indoor drumline show". And anyway, if it was, I believe it's better balanced battery vs. frontline than any of today's indoor percussion ensemble writing.

[@smeadog2010]

We are doing this for our drumline this year. Hoping to be WGI caliber :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

This has been an issue in the past and I actually have a version edited for length! Give me your email and I can send you an mp3!

[@cayspawn]

I really like the revision you did. Especially right before the rhythmic breakdown...I feel like I've heard it before in something else you've written...unless you didn't revise that part and I'm going crazy...Either way, hope you know you are one of my biggest influences to become a composer, I listen to your stuff like everyday, your writing is really amazing man. You're a super talented person, and you'll definitely become famous.

[@TopHeaviness]

@reeldeelpeel Dang. We (as in the players in our drumline) have to find a show, music and drill, among many other things to do indoor this year. Oh well. I love all of your arrangements anyways. Thanks

[@michael16862]

This is too amazing

[@EricPeelMusic]

@SPOTT3DROCK Try to imagine drill and visual ideas put together with all the "random" sounding rhythm

[@EricPeelMusic]

@rohiogerv22, It's like a play on words of the term "altitude sickness".

[@EricPeelMusic]

@garypotty, Thanks, I guess it's always good to have your latest be your best :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@YogSothothOfGuitars, Well, it's pretty obvious when I get comments on my pieces like: "I have this music, want to trade?" or some shit like that. And I know for certain I never sold them a copy. Posting the sheets for everyone to see just isn't possible with the world the way people are. So, sadly it's not happening anymore. I may even start only posting small segments, which would really suck.

[@Tenorcapacity121]

@reeldeelpeel true, but it certainly does help to learn the instruments, especially in the drumline.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Drumboy13131 Yes it has been asked before, but I have actually never made a tutorial video before either. I will consider it though since I do get asked technical questions like that often.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@drumlineification, Thanks, much appreciated. You should listen to more indoor shows though, lol.

[@EricPeelMusic]

All my compositions are indeed for sale. I'm VERY close to having all my product pages up on my site, but not quite yet. Send me a message with you email and I'll get back to you on how to order. Thanks!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@cayspawn If you're talking about the bass drum rims run sound. Yeah, bass drums.

[@EricPeelMusic]

Most independent and many high school indoor ensembles have 17-25 in the battery and 8-15 in the front ensemble. So 25-40 is actually very common.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@CSRobertGarrett, Thanks a lot!

[@lij2015]

@godzillafireman Coming from a mallet player, I think the mallet parts are pretty darn good.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Schwabel3, Well thanks for the compliment, and sorry for not getting your little joke. I'd say orchestrating this was more of time-commitment than talent though. I probably won't ever do a project this big or anything bigger for a long time.

[@Tenorcapacity121]

@reeldeelpeel- that's okay, i was mainly reffereing to drumline because the parts in an indoor show are meant to challenge the drummers ability and should be written by a relativley expirenced drummer.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@TheCoolkid860, Thanks man, yes, please post it :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Kmanflyaway, Please wait for it to process and listen again.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Quadologuy, I don't have the parts cleaned up enough yet for me to be comfortable to sell them quite yet, I'm sorry.

[@cayspawn]

@reeldeelpeel Oh Okay. That's really awesome. I had no idea what that was.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@MRantoineV1 Absolutely, request as you wish. There are no promises as to what I will get to writing though.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@turbosprint, Thanks so much :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Tenorcapacity121, Yeah, it does help, a lot. But it isn't true that you "can't" write for an instrument you don't play. Do you really think every single classical composer knew every instrument in the orchestra? I'm just making sure you don't mean to send this message out.

[@EricPeelMusic]

Thanks for the comment. And that problem should be fixed now!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@TJW941, Thanks, will do.

[@DerynxAlek4eva]

i wish my school could do this for percussion....we only had 8 people this year though :(

[@jdorsuhm]

Excellent stuff man! You've done wonders with this thing! Great job and I look forward to hearing more compositions of yours in the future! I do have one comment to add though... this may be just a personal opinion, but I think the show would be soooo much better if it ended loudly as opposed to the more placid ending that you have composed. However, that's just my opinion... Oh, and by the way, you should REALLY consider getting this show published somewhere and performed!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@EricaSays123, Thanks, very much appreciated :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@TopHeaviness, You could purchase the music from me and contact a drill writer to write drill for it. I would write the drill for you, but just haven't developed the experience necessary to create a good product worth purchasing. Thanks for your interest.

[@SnareKidJoel]

Sorry, I ran out of characters in my first comment haha. But for example, when writing flams in the batterie parts I always set the grace notes to a live velocity of 61, unless it is a passage played at piano or mezzo-piano; then I set it at 39. I think it makes flams sound a little less like a glitch, you know? Sorry if I'm explaining stuff you already know, just trying to help out a fellow composer. :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@megamegan944 Haha, thank you so much! :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@bindingflame1 Yeah, tends to happen when I wrote both pieces lol

[@TJW941]

good stuff, keep writing

[@shenaynaybob]

Wow, very nice! This is some awesome show music. I really hope this brings you some cash :). I'm sorry to hear about the printscreening but nonetheless I will continue to listen to your music.

[@tmandrumma4]

Dude, this is incredible! Seriously, beautiful composing!! I just wish there was a lot more battery presence, you know? It doesn't sound like a WGI show to me.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Schwabel3, What are you talking about??

[@theDrumkilla]

This is awesome...sounds like a Cavi's show. Do you draw an major influence from their music/shows?

[@SnareKidJoel]

Awesome work, Eric! The title "Coast" for the rhythmic break justifies the grooviness of it that comes out of nowhere. I absolutely loved the material repeated in the closer. I see this more as a percussion ensemble with batterie as opposed to an indoor show though, mainly because of its length. Still incredible, nonetheless. Do you use live velocities in Sibelius? If not, I suggest you do because even though it's a bit tedious, it really does make everything sound more realistic.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@tubafleetensign, Thanks so much :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

@maddmatt361, Thanks a lot

[@Tenorcapacity121]

amazing piece of music. i have only one criticism- this is an indoor drumline show. it doesn't seem like theres that much drumline.

[@EgoEchoes]

So I was thinking about doing, just "coast" for part of a drumline show, is there anyway I can know just the instrumentation for that one section and also if there's a possibility I could purchase that one movement, instead of all of it.

[@TheguywithaAccount]

@smeadog2010 post a vid of it when you're done?

[@rohiogerv22]

@reeldeelpeel Oh! I totally missed that! lol, now that you point that out it's pretty clever actually.

[@Lateralus424]

you ever consider writing for wgi? this is amazing.

[@MRantoineV1]

can we request indoor shows for you to write

[@EricPeelMusic]

@ZMaine, Yeah, I agree about Gospel music, just don't like the paunchiness, and the fact that my own music reminds me of it, lol. I think what I did is didn't end it with the minor root, like I used the relative major. I understand what you mean. I'm glad it works though.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@ZMaine, Well, I appreciate your compliments and loyalty with my music. Thanks for noticing the modulation. The only thing I don't like about it is it kinda makes it sound Gospel since gospel music has modulations everywhere. And does the last chord really sound unresolved? As long as it sounds ok. I meant for the 4th of the 4 measures to feel like the first of a new four, idk.

[@Alo42424]

By the way do you think that you could send me the mp3 file if its not much of a hassle? Are you selling this peice of music by the way? I am going to tell my drumline instructor if you are selling this peice if we could probably play this peice because honestly I beleive that this peice of music can make everyone have a great experience and will make us win first place

[@mfsradrumma]

wow jeez this is so cool. are you published?

[@EricPeelMusic]

Thank you!

[@Emeryt11]

@smeadog2010 dude its going to be epicly awesome

[@EricPeelMusic]

@Alo42424, Yes, I can give you an mp3, just message me reminding me about it and include your email. And yes, I'm selling copies of the score for $50. Let me know if you're still interested in purchasing it.

[@EricPeelMusic]

@michael16862, Thank you

[@EricPeelMusic]

That would be awesome if you did! Let me know if you decide to and thank you!

[@meatwad314]

personally i think it should have been called the great escape but i love how it sounds!

[@EricPeelMusic]

@arrowood13 You should teach in that case then!