VARIATIONS ON AYE Digital Listen to Battery Burst

Listen to Battery Burst

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With the two-four sections being a repeated motif

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The first 8 measures feature a steady 1/8th note pulse with heavily accented notes and cymbal crashes—thunder and lightning

VARIATIONS ON AYE Digital Listen to Battery BurstPerformance Notes VARIATIONS ON AYE is a colorful, comical, cut time piece that has some theatrical and vocal components. This piece is best suited for elementary to middle school level ensembles. Rhythmically, VARIATIONS ON AYE is limited to notes, with , and whole rests. While everyone enters right from the beginning, it is the maracas and the agogo bells that serve as the steady beat reference. Aye is word we use, often repetitiously, when we feel