Sheet Music by Percussion Music Composer Todd Ukena

Jeda Night $3.50

Jeda Night by Todd Ukena
(snare drum solo)

This piece is in the style of a Pratt snare drum solo. It focuses on many of the rudiments written on the beat, off the beat, in simple meter (2/4), and in compound meter (6/8). The title is just a made up word that represents the rhythmic motive that shows up frequently in the sixteenth-dotted eighth rhythm. It follows a theme and variations form, (three variations to be exact.) Each variation focuses on a different rudimental technique.

The theme focuses on flams, flam paradiddles, and flamacues (on the beat and off the beat.) There are paradiddlediddles, paradiddles, and double paradiddles with 5 and 9-stroke rolls interspersed. 6 and 7-stroke rolls connected to accent patterns end the theme.

The first variation deals with diddles on isolated sixteenth notes, (Lesson 25, Drag paradiddle no. 1, and single drags.) This variation ends with the same kind of used with 6 and 7-stroke rolls but the single drags are used in the accent patterns.

The second variation deals with ratamacues (single fours) and single sevens with flams and drags added as well. This variations end with tap rolls with accents on different parts of the beat as well as flammed drags.

The last variation is an incomplete variation only dealing with the first part of the theme, (so I guess it really is a coda incognito!) It focuses on 6-stroke rolls, 7-stroke rolls, as well as other rudiments worked with earlier.

I did find one printing error. The last 8th note in measure 160 should be a 5-stroke roll, not a single tap.