Think you can play the triangle? Think again! In our biggest episode yet, we explore the big world of percussion with Chris DeChiara. Using composers from Beethoven to Ozzy Osborne, he demonstrates over a dozen instruments and shares insider secrets as to what goes on in the back row. 

Show Notes

Chris DeChiara demonstrates part of the percussion section in Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

He also plays drum set (and take a look at how the part is notated!)

A full performance of one of the works he demonstrated, The Golden Age of the Xylophone

 

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Chris sitting at a table with over a dozen percussion instruments behind him
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Many small percussion instruments, including a skull shaped maraca
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An open mallet bag with a wide selection of colorful percussion mallets