A Challenge... whos up to it?

Now, from what I've seen of Young Composers there are a lot of great musicians and composers here, however It seems to me that there aren't many percussionists or composers for percussion. So I have a challenge for you: write a piece for a concert or marching percussion ensemble.Sound fun? Difficult? Easy? Give it a try! The rules are :

1. Arrangements for percussion ensemble are okay, (original works are better, though) as long as you spice it up a little. Don't just copy and paste into a percussion staff.

2. You must employ some sort of melodic line using pitched percussion at some point in your music.

3. Have fun!

4. All entries must be at least a minute and a half long, and all entries must be in by April 12th.

Also, I unfortunately have no way to read Sibelius files, but I can read .PDF files and I have Finale 2005 (I also have Notepad 2008) and if all else fails I can hear MIDIs and MP3s.

I'm up for it.....deadline??

The deadline is currently set for april 12th

sorry.....i wasn't paying attention......i'm cool like that.......

the musician in me wants to read once to get the feeling then go back later to take in the finer points and learn what i read......

Good idea, I might participate.

*Suggests that people unfamiliar with percussion writing give it a try too.*

Hah I know exactly what you mean :)