Snare Drum Etude: Analysis and Drum Set Orchestration

Finding the hidden musical themes in the Study 6 from Gary Chaffee’s Sticking Patterns. How to orchestrate a snare drum etude on a drum set? How to make it sound like music? A huge thanks to Nick Samarin for improving the audio quality of drum set recording. LINKS: My orchestration in PDF: Sticking Patterns on HudsonMusic: Gary Chaffee’s podcast on his website: Henrique De Almeida’s channel: Henrique De Almeida’s Polyrhythmic Possibilities book: A great introduction to Sticking Patterns by Jonathan Curtis: The sheet music in this video was created in MuseScore: