Tapspace Publications

Arranger: Jason Hammond-Wood
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Mallet Percussion
Level: Med-Easy to Med-Advanced

In Mainstream Mallets, Jason Hammond-Wood has compiled over 20 short, 2-mallet solos with optional piano accompaniment to challenge more experienced middle school students while offering high school percussionists more performance opportunities.

All selections are familiar tunes, including classical favourites such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anitra's Dance (from Peer Gynt), and The Barber of Seville. Also included are nonclassical melodies like The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Entertainer, and On Wisconsin (the university's fight song).

All pieces are playable on xylophone, vibraphone, or marimba, and two of the solos are adapted to be performed as duets! The optional piano accompaniment may be performed with a pianist, or by using the provided audio accompaniment tracks.

Mainstream Mallets includes 24 pieces.

Song List:

• On Wisconsin | J.S. Hubbard & Charles D. Rosa | (Med-Easy, :35)
• The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann | (Med-Easy, :51)
• Bourree | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:51)
• Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | (Med-Easy, 1:06)
• Sonatina | Muzio Clementi | (Medium, 1:07)
• Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Johannes Brahms | (Medium, 1:47)
• Pizzicati | Leo Delibes | (Med-Easy, 2:07)
• Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:33)
• The Barber of Seville | Gioachino Rossini | (Medium, 1:22)
• The Royal Fireworks | George Frideric Handel | (Medium, 1:19)
• Anitra's Dance | Edvard Grieg | (Medium, 1:40)
• The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | (Medium, 2:10)
• Spring Season | Antonio Vivaldi | (Medium, 1:47)
• The Stars and Stripes Forever | John Phillip Sousa | (Medium, 2:12)
• Badinerie | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Advanced, :57)
• The Chromatic Galop | Franz Liszt | (Medium, 1:19)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | (Med-Advanced, 1:43)
• Trepak [Russian Dance] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Med-Advanced, 1:10)
• Turkish March | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (Med-Advanced, 1:52)
• Csardas | Vittorio Monti | (Med-Advanced, 1:44)
• Back Home Again | James F. Hanley | (Medium, 1:18)
• Raindrop | Frederic Chopin | (Medium, 1:45)
• Bourree [Duet Version] | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:53)
• Sleeping Beauty [Duet Version] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:35)