Sweet Tooth
General Info
Year of Published: 2023
Publisher: Tapspace Publications
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:04:05
Cost: $29.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Snare Drum
Player 2: Snare Drum
Description
Sweet Tooth by Kyle H. Peters is an energetic and groove-oriented snare drum duet showcasing the many sound possibilities of the instrument. Each player uses a brush in the right hand and a stick in the left to create unique timbral effects. The two snare drums are to be tuned differently in order to hear the rhythmic interplay between them. Peters utilizes an ever-changing meter structure that requires performers to really dig in to find the intended groove. Sweet Tooth is a demanding duet for two players wanting to enhance their musical communication and awareness.
Review
Review by Joshua D. Smith: This is a fun, 4-minute duet that explores several timbral palettes that can be achieved with a stick, a brush, and a coated snare drum head. This music gives players the opportunity to perform brush sweeps and strikes, along with stick buzz strokes, rimshots, and playing on the rim. Additionally, performers will increase their ability to perform duple-based rhythms, patterns, and figures in conjunction with another player, even as a possible first step into the world of chamber-music performance.
While this music contains rhythmic patterns and grooves that repeat and punctuate phrases, this piece has the character of being through composed, as the nature and overall feel of the music remains the same from beginning to end. Set at a comfortable quarter note = 80, each player carries equal musical weight, as both parts are composed of sixteenth-note and eighth-note based figures that overlap sounds and frequently culminate with unison rhythmic stops.
The appeal of the piece rests on the interesting cohesion of two differently pitched drums (snares off the entire time) that create a rhythmic bed of texture off of which to interject the occasional rimshot, brush accent, brush sweep, or rim click. Once each player gets comfortable with the basic compositional thrust of duple-based patterns, thirty-second-note gestures, and performing with one stick and one brush, the entire duet will come together pretty quickly.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba Solo Works
Alam Clock
Breeze
Butterfly (Peters)
Downpour
Emerge
Expedition
Folk Song
Good News
Groove
Highland Park
Introduction
Joy
Lullaby (Peters)
Nimbus (Peters)
Petrichor
Stroll
The Cape
Vibraphone Solo Works
Percussion Ensemble Works
All Green Light - 2 Players
Cognition - 5 Players
Expresso - 5 Players
Medieval Percussion Suite - 4 Players
Repair in Progress - 6 Players
Serious Business - 5 Players
Sweet Tooth - 2 Players
Year One - 5 Players