Oxidation, a Percussive Theater Arrangement, was inspired by the root word Oxidize, which means to simply add oxygen to something. Metal turns to rust, copper becomes oxidized, and plants take carbon dioxide to create oxygen.

Oxidation

Burnt Goatcheese Souffle, rewritten for Sound Machine Youth Band, is an advanced version of Goatcheese Souffle, a One Minute Battery Warmup  written for San Gabriel HS Matador Drum Line (MDL). All Sections of the battery are featured.

Burnt Goatcheese Souffle

Noteworthy is a one minute onfield warmup originally written for the Sound Machine Youth Band in 1997. They were worthy of a lot of notes, so i wrote some...

Noteworthy

Crusty Shoes Malone is an onfield one minute warmup written for the Burbank Lancers youth Band in 1993. 

Crusty Shoes Malone

The Big Comfy Couch is a Cadence originally written for the Sound Machine Youth Band.

The Big Comfy Couch

A Bass Drum Cadence originally written for the California State University Northridge Drum Line.

Mental States is a Percussive Theater Arrangement originally written for Bellflower Percussive Theater. A psychiatrist races against time to diagnose a patient before it is too late. Will he succeed? You may be surprised by the ending...

Mental States

Tim has a long standing career in percussion instruction, outdoor & indoor percussion, and composition & arrangement. He has also worked in drill design, marching instruction, as an assistant band director, in website design, and video & sound editing. Tim has consulted and judged for many bands, drumlines, colorguards, youth bands, and drum corps throught US and Internationally. He has written hundreds of warmups, arrangements and compositions for battery, pit, full percussion ensemble, and marching band.  Tim is a nationally published composer with Marching Show Concepts. He is also currently the Director of Instrumental Music at William Workman High School in the City of Industry, CA, which won the bronze in SCSBOA field championships last fall.

Tim McElearney

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