• My "Comfort Zone" is in writing Medium to Advanced level
transitions.
• I stage voices in layers; keeping the melodic voices more centered to
the stage while placing secondary and tertiary voices in accordingly. I
design to what I hear. Basically meaning, I represent the music
visually.
• More pages (or "charts") does not necessarily equal a more difficult
drill design. The actual final page count in your production is more
dependent on the average tempo and length of your show than the
difficulty contained within it. (My Designs average between 11 & 12
pages per minute, though I've recently had as few as 8 and as many as
14).
• The difficulty or basic structure of the musical score generally
determines the difficulty level.
• Those interpretations are influenced by the production's concept which
includes the emotional value/content of a given moment, phrase, or
section of the production.
• Music with faster tempos leads to more pages. Music with more layers
in the scoring leads to more subsets.
• In short, a complex or challenging score structure will generally lead
to a more complex or challenging Drill Design.