It's Not Fine West

It's Not Fine WestIts Not Fine This piece of music is my personal response to hearing about one of my former students being abused as a younger child. The student had told me of the abuse and how it affected them for years afterward, and it upset me very much. One night I sat down at my piano and tried to capture how I was feeling about the whole thing, resulting in the opening piano motif. I then wrote a short song as the basis for the rest of the piece. The lyrics of

this composition bounces back and forth between two-four and four-four time

Measures 45 to 53 serve as a segue into the closing 8 measures

accompanied by a busier conga part with a steady pulse from the tambourine and shaker

the 3 toms play in mf with a repetitive

from a whisper to a roar should be explosive

shake their heads in confusion or freeze

SWING is a mid-tempo piece

The snare drum parts allude to 2 people sneaking from one location to another

March Extraordinaire is introduced with both snares in unison and remains so until letter D

HANDS-ON consists of ¼

Listen to Drummer's Delight

Mallet parts include rolls