Percussion Essentials
General Info
Subtitle: A Practical Manual for Music Educators
Year of Published: 2010
Publisher: Kendor Music Publishing
Cost: $15.95
Description
Designed for educators, students and professionals, this comprehensive manual explains the history, equipment, and performance techniques for snare drum, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, instruments, improvisation, rhythmic accuracy, and playing as a multiple percussion soloist is also included, along with over 45 demonstration photos taken at the Eastman School of Music. This is the perfect book for college percussion methods courses.
Content
Chapter 1: Teaching Percussion
Chapter 2: Snare Drum
Chapter 3: Timpani
Chapter 4: Bass Drum
Chapter 5: Cymbals
Chapter 6: Mallet Percussion
Chapter 7: Drum Set
Chapter 8: Accessory Percussion (Tambourine & Triangle)
Chapter 9: World Percussion
Chapter 10: Additional Topics (Multiple Percussion & Percussion Ensemble & Sight-Reading & Rhythmic Accuracy & Improvisation)
Books for Percussion by this Author
Encyclopedia for Percussion, 2nd Edition
Concepts for Timpani
Percussion Essentials
Progressive Solos for Snare Drum
Progressive Solos for Timpani
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Snare Drum Solo
10 Intermediate Snare Drum Solos – Snare Solo
Advanced Solos for Snare Drum – Snare Solo
Bicentennial Drummer – Snare Solo
Classical Snare Drum Solos – Snare Solo
Colonial Capers – Snare Solo
Colonial Drummer – Snare Solo
Colonial Episode – Snare Solo
Siegfried Fink Siegfried - Fink Luxembourg – Snare Drum Solo
Timpani Solo
Alpine Slide
Grand Duchy
Grand Teton
Cross-Over March
Interactions for Timpani and Sound – with Electronics
Modulations – Timpani Solo
Motives – Timpani Solo; with Piano
Snake River – Timpani Solo
Sonata for Timpani (Beck) – Timpani Solo
Three Episodes for Timpani – Timpani Solo; with Piano
Three Movements for Five Timpani – Timpani Solo
Triptych Motif – Timpani Solo
Multiple Percussion Solo
Episode for Solo Percussion
Istra
The Inverted Pyramid
Concerto
Concerto for Drum Set & Percussion Ensemble (Beck) – Percussion Septet; with Drum set
Concerto for Timpani and Percussion Ensemble (Beck) – Percussion Quintet; with Timpani
Percussion Ensemble
Episodes for Percussion Trio – Percussion Trio
Fanfare for the Common Percussionist
Four to One – Percussion Duo
G-Force – Percussion Trio
In and Out of the Pocket – Percussion Quartet
In the Pocket – Percussion Quartet
Jazz Miniature – Percussion Sextet
Jazz Variants – Percussion Octet
Latin Fantasy – Percussion Sextet
Little March – Percussion Sextet
Overture for Percussion Ensemble (Beck) – Percussion Octet
St. Patrick's Shenanigan – Percussion Trio