What is a MEL swell?
Steve: This is a dramatic crescendo between the Timpani and Large TAM. The players must start at ZERO. Now, I can’t stress this enough via written word… ZERO! Then in the kind of slope as suggested in the “BRIEF INTRO TO MELILLO MUSIC”, they swell to create a highly dramatic, dynamic effect… ala what happens in the piece “Stormworks” in the last movement. This is the best I can do with words.
