Capture the spirit of calypso zydeco bossa nova gospel jigs jazz and more with this unique collection of global rhythm styles. Each ensemble includes 3 to 4 rhythm parts for classroom percussion instruments and one part is always the pulse so even your youngest students can join in! There are also body percussion parts to help learn the rhythms before the instruments are distributed and when there aren't enough instruments to go around. Optional Orff instrument parts and piano are also included for additional layers of tone colour! The enclosed CD offers two recorded tracks for each groove: an instructional track and a play-along track without the percussioninstruments for the flexibility of adding any number of performers. PDFs of all the parts are also included on the Enhanced CD. All parts are 4 to 8 measures and once they are secure the parts can be layered in one-at-a-time in different orders. You decide! Then add your new world groove accompaniments to different songs in these styles from your music library! There is even an overall theme song called ?The Beat of the World? for your students to experience. Let the spirit groove you! Music grooves include: Calypso South African Hora Gospel Irish Jig Zydeco Rock and Roll Bossa Nova American Jazz Irish Reel. Available: Book/Enhanced CD. Suggested for grades 3-6.

'The Typewriter' is a classic Leroy Anderson novelty piece. This medium-grade percussion ensemble is written for 9--10 players, and includes the classic typewriter rhythm ('What's a typewriter?'). Make sure to have fun and add a little bit of Jerry Lewis. / Percussions

With few study books existing for Percussion Jacques Delécluse ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent Initium III. French percussionist and composer Delécluse studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the mid-1900s winning many prizes. The exercises in the third volume of Initium III are subtitled 'Rhythm through Percussion Percussion through Rhythm'. The third addresses semiquavers trills dotted quavers compound time rests syncopation triplets and sextuplets amongst other aspects. The exercises ensure mastery of a high technical level on a variety of Percussioninstruments. For all aspiring percussionists Delécluse's Initium III is essential having been compiled by a master of Percussion himself.

Programme Note In REJANG for solo percussion I have linked elements from the music of the Far East to a more Western way of thinking. The title can be understood partly as a description of the instruments played yielding local associations and partly as having an undefined ritual flavour inasmuch asit contains a particular idea. To the almost aggressive character of this work I have added a sound from nature conveyed by a set of genuine Balinese Wind Mills (surely used here for the first time in a Western work) which endow the work with a more conciliatory transition between two areas which however remain what they are: tendencies pushing in opposite directions. The work is divided into five movements according to considerations of timbre. Some kind of order or limitation if you like had to be imposed on the almost chaotic events and ideas which lie behind at least some parts of REJANG.   Ole Buck

Premier tambour livre de Rick Latham Advanced Studies de Funk, est l'un des livres définitifs pour le batteur contemporain. Maintenant à nouveau disponible, dans une nouvelle édition qui inclut un coffret de deux CD, cette norme dans le domaine est une compilation de toutes les techniques de tambours utilisé dans la musique de la Fusion et de Funk. Le livre comprend des transcriptions par l'auteur des extraits de nombreux enregistrements célèbres par batteurs comme Steve Gladd, David Garibaldi, Harvey Mason, Peter Erskine et beaucoup d'autres, ainsi que spécialement construit solos par l'auteur. L'ensemble de deux CD contient des enregistrements de tous les patrons - transcriptions et les solos effectuée par l'auteur, Rick Latham. Il s'agit d'un livre qui appartient à la bibliothèque de chaque batteur contemporaine. / Percussions