Every percussionist is faced with many challenges in their studies and their careers.  In this paper I hope to shed light on what kind of work goes into preparing, practising and performing a large solo percussion piece and share some of my personal experience with solo percussion music. This is done by choosing a piece from the repertoire and documenting what processes and methods are used from the time a piece has been chosen until it is ready for performance. The subject of this thesis is Rebonds b by Iannis Xenakis for solo percussion. The result is a blueprint that can be useful for young percussionists when they are faced with a large piece from the repertoire and guidelines for what to do when faced with challenges.

Every percussionist is faced with many challenges in their studies and their careers.  In this paper I hope to shed light on what kind of work goes into preparing, practising and performing a large solo percussion piece and share some of my personal experience with solo percussion music. This is done by choosing a piece from the repertoire and documenting what processes and methods are used from the time a piece has been chosen until it is ready for performance. The subject of this thesis is Rebonds b by Iannis Xenakis for solo percussion. The result is a blueprint that can be useful for young percussionists when they are faced with a large piece from the repertoire and guidelines for what to do when faced with challenges. / <p>Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds b</p><p>Keiko Abe - Wind Sketch</p><p>George Hamilton Green - Valse Brilliante (arr. Bob Becker)</p><p>Jaques Delecluse - Etude no. 29 for timpani</p><p>Jaques Delecluse - Etude no. 6 for snare drum</p><p>Jaques Delecluse - Test Claire</p><p>Mitchell Peters - Etude no. 3 from Hard Times</p><p>Hanz Kruger - Etude no. 45 for timpani</p>