Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
I'm thinking it might be effective to have a "clip-clop" sound in the
perc., but I wonder if that would be viable since it's in slow, lazy,
triple time. Like, do horses amble in three-four ..it's been a long
time since I've ridden?
At slow speeds, I'd think it would be a more duple time "clip clop", but
to me, with an weak "clip" on beat three, and a strong "clop" on beat
one, it sounds like a faster gait. Seems to me a band director told me
that the traditional sound for horses hooves was an instrument made from
coconut shells. Been so long ago, though, that even if I'm right, they
may have been supplanted by something else.
ns
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