West Side Story Overture for Drum Set-Chart and Lesson

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Here is the drum set part to a very well-known arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The arrangement is by Maurice Peress.
If you play drum set in an orchestra as I do you will run across this arrangement many times as it is played quite often on pops concerts and the like.
I show you how to interpret the written music into something that is more listener friendly as well as demonstrating how I approach performing this piece.
Here are some Time Stamps if you want to skip around.
0:00 Intro
6:05 Opening and Section One
15:51 Cowbell Application
17:33 Playthrough of Mambo Section #1
18:59 Playthrough of Mambo Section #2
20:24 Deciphering the written Mambo
Equipment
The Drums used in this video are Craviotto stacked Private Reserve kit.
The sizes are
Bass Drum 20" x 15"
Toms 10" x 8" and 12" x 8"
Floor Tom 14" x 14"
The snare drum is a 14"x 6.5" Dialtune NOB Snare drum
The Cymbals are:
22" Paiste Traditional Light Ride
16" Paiste Traditional Extra Thin Crash
16" Paiste Traditional Thin Crash
Masterwork 24" Swish/China with Rivets
Sabian 13" HH Regular Hi Hats
I am using 3 JCR Cowbells
Mics are two Sennheiser MKH 800 overheads and an AKG D112 on the bass drum.

[@mgrdibbs]

Essential viewing and listening. Invaluable advice. Thank you so much Rick

[@jeffmannes6079]

Great job. Great insight. Thank you.

[@kevinbellefeuille3007]

I've played drum set for a while and orchestral percussion, but never drum set in an orchestral setting. This was pretty cool and very interesting in showing those two things coming together.

[@mikeshouse2000]

Great playing, the drums sound phenomenal and your instruction is always appreciated!

[@jimbarcelona1078]

nicely instructed Rick.

[@user-si8xm1fv6e]

Thank you so much

[@robertopistolesi2735]

Really nice imput and great playing. I've played it once with an orchestra and it wasn't easy at all. Thank you

[@dzaork]

Thank you 👏🏻 very good lesson

[@SandroBonato]

YOU'RE AMAZING!

[@davidl7200]

Nice playing! Are you playing Sabian Artisan hi hats?

[@drummadave]

Hi Rick- whats the metal hoop on your snare? Thanks

[@rickdior]

That's a dialtune snare so it's the quick change rim they use. If you search my channel for Dialtune you will see a few videos on the drum which I love.

[@dennisstgermain4187]

And you get doubling !!! 🙃🙃

[@larrbrown7277]

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