The Nutcrackers by Bent Lylloff

This collection of six snare drum etudes is demonstrative of the type of solid orchestral snare drum literature that might be appropriate for intermediate to advanced snare drum study. Etude number 1 is in 3/4, while etudes 2 and 3 are in 6/8 and 12/8 respectively. Etude 4 starts in 4/4 before transitioning to 9/16—as well as 5/8 and 3/8. Etude 6 is quite contemporary in its style and ends with a roll marked to accelerate and diminuendo. Each etude is about one-and-a-half to two minutes in length, and could function as solid performance or pedagogical literature for either the advanced high school or intermediate college snare drum student.   

—Jim Lambert