Polyrhythmic Studies for the Snare Drum

Fred Albright

General Info

Year: 1997
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Belwin-Mills Publishing
Cost: Book Cost - $15.99   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Overview

Polyrhythmic Studies for Snare Drum is a compilation of 35 etudes and 26 solos for intermediate and advanced levels. It is designed to encompass several phases of music for the snare drum as well as to develop the minds and hands to perform both common and uncommon meters. The first section of the book contains an analysis of polyrhythms and abnormal groups; if studied carefully, this section will help in building a solid foundation of understanding so that polyrhythmic and odd group figures may be executed with little difficulty.

Table of Contents

Begins with an introduction and lists the etudes and the location of the explanation pages that help explain the sections.

Reviews

Student Reviews

"This book is an etude book, while in the first eight pages of the book it goes over polyrhythmic studies. Its not really a book for teaching new information, there’s good information in the book itself, but most of it will be learned along the way of being a musician in high school and college. In other words, it dated, there are I feel better representations of the information in this book out there for cheaper if you want to learn about polyrhythmic studies. I would say that this is more of a performance book as opposed to a book designed to work on rhythmic improvement in the way its claiming. There are some difficult etudes in this book, I feel could be learned and help players progress. However, not only is it in several different styles, but it is also not well structured. I could say there is a benefit to more advanced players to have it in such a style of notation, but it would be hard to read for someone who had little experience with this notation and defeats the purpose of the book. This is why I gave it a one star rating." - Thomas Scott

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