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There are a lot of existing tunes with the word 'relationship' in the title, so we wanted to give this piece a more unique and specific meaning. Alloy and arbor both mean to come together, and these materials also produce the sound of the vibraphone and marimba.

There are many improvements to the readability and playability of the score too. For example, the vibraphone part has note names for notes with more than a couple ledger lines instead of using octave-up/down lines. We think this better shows the overall shape of the melody.

Also, we're trying what we believe to be an innovative approach to grand staff spacing for marimba. Instead of the treble and bass staff having varying spacing to accommodate the height of various objects in the score, the space is now kept at a constant, predictable 2 spaces, and the stem direction and objects are repositioned to accommodate this.

The piece has been polished up, sanded down, and we think you'll enjoy hearing all the new sheen and texture. Enjoy your free copy of the new score if you've purchased the old version!

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While Escaping a Nightmare is our most popular percussion ensemble of all time at 174 copies sold, Dusk to Dawn comes in second place at 104. We wish it were #1 however because we feel the musicality is overall more mature. Perhaps with the many tweaks and a second glockenspiel part to amplify the melody during the chorus, you will wish it was #1 too!

As requested many times for over a decade now, the drumset part has a legend and the score and all parts have a much larger staff size and make better use of space. You'll just have to hear our excellently mixed (in our opinion) new demo and listen out for all the musical changes!

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It has been requested dozens of times over the years and we've finally listened! We're proud to now offer what we believe to be the most authentic, most Baroque-sounding percussion arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D in the world.

It is so authentic that we've changed the key to Db! Why?

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"Consumed by the Universe", our flagship vibraphone solo has been downloaded over 500 times, which we are super happy about. But we have also recieved various complaints about the notation quality.

It has therefore been repaired and polished up for this year. The notation is now much more clean and professional. As always, previous buyers will get a free copy!"

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We published Escaping a Nightmare in the year of 2008, and it has since remained our most successful ensemble. For that reason, we saw it fitting to give it an update for 2020.

Enjoy more flare added to the auxiliary and more color added to the harmony in the mallets! Notation is now much cleaner and easier to read!

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Need a cool, groovy mallet quartet? This is the one, now made even better!

Red, green, yellow, BLUE LIGHT! And not the little blue lights above traffic signals that police use to catch red light runners. This is a kind of blue light that lies somewhere along the column of regular traffic signals. The function of this special light? Well, one can at least discover how it sounds...

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Clockwork, my first work ever work published 11 years ago has been massively updated!

Looking for groovy, clock-like sounds from your battery combined with deep emotion and musicality from your front ensemble? This is the show for you! Audiences will receive exciting musical interpretations of the life of a clock, from its inception to the time its batteries eventually run out. This show is geared for a smaller group who still wants a powerful and captivating presence in the gym for wgi, or a concert hall anytime!

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A brand new percussion ensemble is now available!

An atmospheric journey through the American Southwest! Written for 19 players and 44 instruments, this is Eric's largest percussion ensemble by far! Four marimbas play an echoing rhtyhm, only displaced to their own beat of the measure, creating a very convincing delay effect! Ten auxiliary percussion parts provide a deep level of rhythm and effect textures. Entrance your audience with rich harmonies and sweet melodies!

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A brand new marimba solo arrangement is now available!

This marimba arrangement retains as much from the piano solo as possible while being compressed into a five minute solo. Chords with five or more notes needed to be intelligently converted to four notes or less to make them possible to perform on a marimba with four mallets. Many intervals especially on the left hand needed to be changed or omitted to make achieving some passages more feasible.

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Finally, after several months of repolishing, Eric's latest Indoor Show is publicly available!

It seems that the usefulness of polyrhythms has always been questioned. It’s as if musicians are waiting for a time period when polyrhythms will become acceptable to use other than only for special occasions. The goal for this show is to demonstrate that it is not only possible, but advantageous to have a nearly constant flow of polyrhythms from beginning to end.

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The instruments were carefully chosen to best emulate specific orchestral sounds from Claude Debussy's arrangement of this timeless piano solo. A group of eight dedicated percussionists will find a true and felt connection to legitimate classical music.

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Caves, mountains, and canyons. These are three typical favorite landscapes one would like to spend the day hiking. Let this solo guide you through the three of them.

The player will be challenged by out-of-this-world interval changes and independence. Trust me, the piece will be as fun to play and see as it is to hear!

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After about a year of planning, ECWP Music is alive and up! This is the one and only place where the latest and greatest Eric C. W. Peel percussion pieces are published and available to be purchased. Remember that this is a brand new site and improvements will be made almost everyday. Be sure to keep checking back. I hope you enjoy your experience!

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