Viking Percussion has a wide array of instruments involved in their ensemble from drum sets to guitars. Instructor, John Owens, said he works to provide challenging pieces to students so that they are constantly improving as musicians.
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MOSES LAKE – Big Bend Vikings Percussion is a musical group for the college that performs music using various percussion instruments. The Group recently won first in state and is led by Big Bend’s music instructor John Owens who was able to share more about the group. “It’s basically marching percussion meets concert percussion,” he said. “We have marimbas, vibraphone, drum set, bass and guitars, and then we have snare drums tenors, and multiple bass drums.” ...