The Complete Percussionist

Robert Breithaupt

General Info

Year: 2005
Edition: 2nd Edition.
Publisher: Barnhouse
Cost: Book Cost - $29.50   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Overview

The new edition of The Complete Percussionist provides an updated view of the performance, maintenance and literature of percussion instruments in the school setting. It is written to help the band director to be in touch with information that will allow them to effectively communicate with today's percussionists. This new edition is spiral bound for ease of use while the user performs the exercises within this text.

This book begins with by describing percussion music as an ever-changing ameba with new instrumentation and notation added to the genre each day. With this in mind, Breithaupt defines and provides information that has been found crucial to the percussionist. Covering a wide range of instruments from the traditional janissary to a few off beat auxiliary and world percussion instruments, as well as an extensive section on drumset playing, keyboard percussion, and marching percussion. Each instrument is explained with informative illustrations and notated examples.

This book is extremely useful, and would be an excellent book for teaching an introductory level percussion method class, or for any band director.

Reviews

Student Reviews

"I found this book to be extremely useful, and would be an excellent book for teaching an introductory level percussion method class, or any band director. The examples could be extended to improve the criteria for the students, that is one area that the book is lacking." - Denver Ridgway

Works for Percussion by this Author

Breithaupt, Robert The Complete Percussionist. C.L. Barnhouse Company; 2nd edition, 2005.