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For four players on five bass drums

Ben Zucker

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

-Bruce Lee

~Each bass drum should be tuned differently; position them in a line in order from lowest to highest.

~Each performer should be between two bass drums (so the entire setup is a line of drum/performer/drum/performer etc.).

~Each performer has similar large beaters, and counts the time in seconds.

~The beater is swung with a wide dramatic swath with the whole body, somewhere between taiko drumming and hitting a

baseball.

~The hits are notated as follows:

Top column: L or R: which drum the performer hits

Middle column: 0-5: indicates volume/how hard the drum is hit, 0 being imperceptible, not actually touching the drum, 1

being quiet, 5 being loudest.

Bottom column: 1-5: indicates how long the gesture of hitting the drum should last in seconds, i.e. 1 being 1 second or

fast; 5 being slower.

~ When the performer has played the last hit, they lift out of stance into standing and raise the mallet over their head,

-June 24, 2013

Paris, France

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P1:

L R L L L R L R R L R L L R L L L

5 3 4 5 0 5 5 5 4 4 0 1 1 0 1 4 52 5 4 3 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 5 2 4 1 2

P2:

L R R R R R R L L R R L R L L L L

1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 4 1 1 0 2 5 4 0 0

2 5 5 2 5 4 1 4 1 2 3 4 2 3 3 2 5

P3:

L L L R L L R L L R L L R L L R L

2 5 4 1 3 2 3 0 1 2 4 5 1 3 3 0 4

2 1 1 1 4 3 5 2 5 2 1 2 5 5 4 1 1

P4:

L L L L L R L L L R L L R R L L R

5 0 1 2 2 1 3 4 4 2 1 3 4 5 4 3 1

4 4 3 2 1 1 2 4 5 5 3 3 5 1 1 1 5

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R R L R L L L L L L L L L R L R R

4 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 4 4 0 3 2 4 0

3 5 5 1 2 3 1 1 4 4 3 5 1 2 5 2 1

R L R R L L R R R L R L R L L L R

1 3 1 1 0 5 3 2 1 3 3 4 1 5 3 0 0

5 2 1 4 4 3 3 3 5 3 2 1 1 2 5 1 4

R R R R L L L L L L R R R R L L R

1 0 5 1 2 0 1 4 0 5 2 5 5 5 0 2 1

5 4 5 3 1 4 2 5 1 5 3 5 1 5 4 5 4

R L L L R R R R L R R R R L L L L

3 2 5 1 1 4 4 2 3 3 4 5 0 5 2 3 5

2 1 5 2 1 4 4 4 2 5 4 1 3 5 3 3 5

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L R R L R R R R R R L R L L R R R

5 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 0 2 4 3 3 2 3 2 33 5 1 3 4 5 3 5 1 5 3 4 4 2 4 5 4

L L R R L L R R L L R R L L L R L

0 0 2 3 1 4 0 2 2 2 5 3 3 5 3 1 3

1 5 1 5 5 3 3 4 2 3 3 3 2 5 4 4 4

L R L L L R L R L R R R R R L R L

1 2 4 2 1 1 0 3 5 3 5 1 3 0 0 0 0

1 2 5 5 5 1 2 3 1 1 5 2 5 5 3 3 2

L R L R R R R L L L R R L R R R R

1 0 5 2 2 4 5 3 5 5 3 0 2 5 2 1 2

5 5 3 1 5 1 3 2 1 2 5 3 3 2 3 3 4

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R L L L R L L R L R L R R L R L R

1 5 3 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 5 4 0 2 3 0 23 1 4 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 2 1 4 3 1 4 4

R R R L R R L R R L L R L L R L L

2 5 2 3 5 0 3 5 1 3 4 3 4 5 4 1 3

4 2 5 4 3 2 1 5 2 2 1 4 1 2 2 1 4

R L R L L R R R L R L L R R R L R

2 4 4 5 4 2 1 4 3 3 5 1 5 0 0 3 3

5 5 3 2 2 3 5 5 1 4 1 1 2 3 1 5 4

R L R L R L R R R L L R R R R R L

0 3 2 4 3 2 1 3 5 1 2 5 1 5 1 4 1

3 2 1 4 4 4 2 1 3 1 2 3 4 1 5 3 1

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L L R L R L R R L L R L R R R L L

1 2 4 2 5 4 1 3 1 3 1 4 5 1 3 3 1

5 4 4 1 4 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 1

L R R L R L L L R L R L R R L L R

1 5 0 0 4 2 2 5 1 5 3 3 2 3 1 0 4

1 2 2 4 5 4 2 4 4 1 5 5 3 5 4 2 1

L R L R L L R L L L R L R R R R L

4 0 3 1 1 0 5 4 0 2 4 1 1 2 2 3 2

2 5 1 1 3 2 2 5 1 1 4 1 3 4 2 3 4

L R L R R L R R L R R R R L L L L

0 1 3 5 2 3 4 2 0 4 2 5 4 4 5 0 0

2 5 4 3 1 2 2 1 1 2 4 1 1 1 1 2 2

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R L R L R R R L L R L R R R L

4 2 5 5 0 2 3 2 2 2 0 4 3 1 02 5 1 4 3 5 3 3 3 5 2 3 1 4 5

R R L L L R L R L L R L L L R

1 0 1 2 5 4 5 5 1 3 1 1 4 4 5

5 1 5 5 4 1 5 3 4 4 1 3 4 1 5

R L R L L R L L L L L R R L R

1 3 3 2 2 3 1 3 5 0 4 4 2 4 3

5 4 3 3 5 4 5 4 2 2 1 2 5 1 2

R L R R R L R L R R L L R R L

4 4 3 3 2 3 1 4 4 4 2 0 3 2 1

3 3 1 5 2 4 5 4 2 3 5 2 5 1 4