For the Snare Drummer-The follow-up to 'Stick Control' George Lawrence Stone’s Accents And Rebounds - For The Snare Drummer builds on the basics with accent routines and more advanced rhythms to improve the player’s finesse and control.This book includes sections on accented eighths dotted notes and triplets as well as rebound control and more. If you are a fan of Stick Control then this method supplies the perfect next step for your practice routine.This updated edition adds Joe Morello’s legendary arrow notation to help students incorporate the motions of the Moeller technique.

This book examines every aspect of the snare drum roll and provides resources and valuable knowledge for beginners experienced musicians and professionals regardless of their skill level. Through written explanations diagrams photographs exercises and more the snare drum roll will no longer be a mystery but a technique anyone can understand and master. The Modern Concert Snare Drum Roll is designed to provide teachers with an instructional resource and students a method for home practice. In addition to numerous roll exercises the following topics are covered: basic set up of the drum · release of the roll · transition back and forth from single strokes to the roll ·metered versus unmetered rolls · dynamics · an entire section devoted to advanced exercises. Once these skills are mastered performers will be able to execute the roll in virtually any musical setting.

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Caisse Claire

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic often called the bible of drumming. In 1993 Modern Drummer magazine named the book first in its list of 25 Greatest Drum Books of all-time.In the words of the author it is the ideal book for improving 'control speed flexibility touch rhythm lightness delicacy power endurance preciseness of execution and muscular coordination ' with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand.This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced-level rhythms moving through categories of single-beatcombinations triplets short roll combinations flam beats flam triplets and dotted notes and short roll progressions.

comprehensive band method-(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy andengaging music all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learningenvironment as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship even at the beginning stages.Books 1 and 2 also include access to Essential Elements Interactive (EEi) the ultimate online music education resource - anywhere anytime and on any device. Go to www.essentialelementsinteractive.com to learn more! Book 2 features: ? Book 1 review section? Daily Warm-ups? Rhythm Raps sight-reading and improvisation?Theory history and multicultural music? Creativity and assessment? Instrument-specific etudes? Rubank Studies and solo? 12 full band arrangements including a plannedconcert Book also includes My EE Library* (www.myeelibrary.com) - Instant Stream/Download/CD*...with Play-along mp3 tracks for ALL exercises*Internet access required for My EELibrary. Book includes instructions to order free optional CD.

Progressive steps for the modern drummer. The main object of this book is to introduce the basic skills for reading music and later explore much of the modern off-beat rhythms found in contemporary music.