Polyrhythms Through Pop Music by Kevin Zetina

From the composer: Polyrhythms Through Pop Music came as a result of two things. 1) I had finished playing through all of Jospeh Tompkins’ Snare Drum solos/etudes and was left wanting more. 2) I’ve always found it useful to practice snare drum solos along to popular music. Assuming one can find a song of similar tempo and feel, I find it to be a very useful tool in reinforcing groove into solo snare drum music (especially Delécluse!) After having played many of Tompkins’ solos along to popular music, I started writing my own Tompkins-inspired snare drum music that was written with a specific song pairing in mind: “Seaside Town” by Baths. By essentially scoring the snare drum part to a specific song, this makes the actual music line up more naturally. For example, phrase lengths match, vocal rhythm can be mimicked, and spaces can be embellished. Because so much of this music is inspired by Tompkins, I encourage the performer to study a considerable amount of his music prior to these sol