Eight Rudimental Solos for Snare Drum is a collection of eight rudimental snare drum solos. All of the solos are of varying levels of difficulty. Included Solos:

• Tuesdays at Four
• Rudimental Rondo
• Alliteration
• Fife and Drum
• A Fine Time
• Fire for Kire
• For Amsterdam
• In a Scottish Kind of Way

Percussionist Joseph Tompkins has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, the New Jersey Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. On Broadway he has played in productions of The King and I, Swan Lake, Oklahoma!, The Lion King, The Producers, Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza and Tarzan. Tompkins has a performed on film soundtracks for The Manchurian Candidate, The Last Holiday, Failure to Launch, and Casanova. Currently he is a member of the percussion trio Timetable, a group committed to commissioning and performing new works for percussion. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School.

"Seven of the works in this volume were written while I was a graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music, or shortly thereafter (the eighth, For Amsterdam, was composed for the students of the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2020). I have altered stickings, dynamics, and, in some cases, tempos of the original versions to give more shape to the pieces, and allow more natural phrases to come through.