Two Days is a Multiple Percussion solo which utilizes the following instruments:

5 Concert Toms, Vibraphone, Crotales, Temple Blocks, China Cymbal, Splash Cymbal, Suspended Cymbal, Sizzle Strip, Wind Chimes

It uses a melodic theme as the common thread through various forms of ostinato patterns. 4-mallet proficiency will be required for much of the ostinato work. A variety of techniques are used, including playing rims and blocks with the mallet shafts, and playing the wind chimes as a melodic component.

Two Days was awarded First Prize at the 1998 DCI Individual and Ensemble "Multiple Percussion" solo competition.

This piece is published as a grand staff, and is saddle-stitch bound, with a color glossy cover!

Recording performed live by Andrew Anderson.

Review of "Two Days" from Percussive Notes magazine
a publication of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS)
Vol. 38, No. 4, August 2000

This solo, awarded first place at the 1998 DCI Individual and Ensemble Competition, is written for a multi-percussionist playing a setup featuring an assortment of metalic timbres produced by vibes, crotales, pitched wind chimes, cymbals (Chimes, sizzle, crash, and splash) and a sizzle strip, plus temple blocks and five concert tom-toms. Challenges, such as maintaining an incessant ostinato pattern on the five toms with one hand while playing a melody using a contingent of metallophones with the other, makes this solo an ideal vehicle for developing the technique of the college multi-percussionist.

-John R. Raush
Contributing reviewer for Percussive Notes magazine