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Composer's Guide to Drums and Percussion: Top 10 Mistakes when Composing for Percussion Instruments How to avoid the pitfalls amateurs make when writing music for percussion.  Real advice from a REAL PERCUSSIONIST. TOP 10 MISTAKES WHEN WRITING FOR PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS 10. Indicating the wrong mallets for an instrument. Brass mallets on vibes? Try a hammer on a violin! 9. Writing the glockenspiel part as heard. You shouldn't have to climb a ladder of leger lines to read a glock part. Keep it in the staff. 8. When in doubt, adding more suspended cymbal . This is a huge mistake made by arrangers. Yep, cymbals add automatic intensity to a piece, but so can a bass drum roll, a rousing hand drum part, exciting mallet licks, or a hundred other combinations. Well-written percussion parts stand out in the band and church repertoire. 7. Better means more complicated, right? This is my main mistake. A percussion part can be simple enough for a middle school, bu...