Virtuoso drummer Walfredo Reyes Jr. shows you how to combine rock drumming techniques with a wide range of African Caribbean and South American percussion sounds to create an integral global drumming style.Through inspirational live performances and detailed step-by-step analysis Walfredo shows how toDevelop a 'split brain' style combining right-hand rock beats with left-hand global percussionUnderstand and play a variety of intricate global beats including Mangambe Arequita Zouk Maracatu Reggae Cha Cha and moreIntegrate the drumset with percussion instruments such as timbales bongos agogo bells and guiroThis detailed lesson iseasy-to-follow with clear explanations and an accompanying booklet packed with notated examples.

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists an ensemble founded and directed by Diane Downs has been wowing audiences at national and regional PAS and MENC conventions for several years. Using music arranged by Diane these youngstersperform with a degree of enthusiasm and skill that is truly amazing. For the first time these distinctive arrangements are available in print – carefully edited by well-known educator/author Rick Mattingly.Eacharrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments. If you are looking to start up a percussion ensemble or need some entertaining program piecesfor your existing group this series is definitely for you!

POD-Nico Muhly's Pulses Cycles Clouds for large mixed Percussion ensemble was written for the 50th anniversary of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. At its core it is a group of four marimbas surrounded by various bells and other mallet instruments; unpitched instruments here are primarily played by an ensemble of amateur percussionists. The piece obsesses over a cycle of eleven chords introduced slowly through the beginning of the piece. Each chord is announced by a large vertical moment with bells vibraphone and a sudden shift in tonality. The four marimbas then relax into a series of soft interlockingpatterns over which an ensemble of glockenspiels and crotales plays a simple rhythm in a complex relationship to the other instruments. Eventually the pulse disintegrates entirely into a vision of a night sky; insects unexpected interruptions - a walk around a quiet landscape. Eventually the pulse returns but nocturnally subdued. The piece is meant to echo in its way the thrill of community music making the joy of sharing a pulse and the various connections both rhythmic and interpersonal I made at BUTI two decades ago. - Nico Muhly

Facsimile Of The Draft Score and Paul Sacher'S Annotated Full Score Copy-Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938 is incontestably one of the supreme creations of modern music. This publication with introductory essays by Felix Meyer Robert W. Wason Lászlo Vikárius and Wolfgang Rathert presents two major handwritten sources for this work from the holdings of the Paul Sacher Foundation: the draft score which offers a fascinating glimpse into the sonata's genesis and a 'whiteprint' of the fair copy which contains additions from Bartók and differs substantially from the definitiveversion at the end of the development section in movement 1. The volume also contains on an enclosed CD the radio recording of 1940 with Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory on the piano parts as well as a new recording of the sonata in its 'original' form played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with percussionists Matthias Würsch and Christian Dierstein.

Trois Rivieres by Kaija Saariaho was Commissioned by the French Government and Musica Strasbourg.As the title suggests Trois rivières is divided into three separate sections. The first part introduces allthe instrumental colours used in the piece. The rhythmic aspect is here nearly eliminated giving room for the timbral scales colours resonances attacks and textures to come to the fore. The instruments come from all members ofthe percussion family but unpitched instruments are given a primary role.The second part adds a rhythmic aspect to the nuances of colour and texture as an ostinato is developed in markedly varying directions.Thelast part is an epilogue recalling components of the two preceding parts. Here earlier aspects of the material are reorganised and placed in different relationships to each other.The voices of the percussionists acttogether as an extension of the instruments being used to create either rhythmically free textures or strictly notated rhythms. They are treated instrumentally combining to create rhythms and timbres. The poem 'La nuit de lunesur le fleuve' (Moonlit night on the river) by the Chinese poet Li Po (701-762) constitutes the material for the voices which are amplified and further enhanced throughout.

This is effectively a work in three movements - Allegro Andante cantabile and Presto - which Davies likens to 'three obstacle courses bristling with technical difficulties'. However as he goes on to say 'young people arenaturally gifted with extraordinary rhythmic skills which normally remain untapped'. Given the opportunity older children have here the material for a highly arresting piece of music-making. Scoring also includes a small woodblock a small temple block and a small suspended cymbal. The xylophones are one each of the following: concert soprano alto and bass. The two glockenspiels are soprano and alto and the metallophones are bass and deep bass (avibraphone may be used instead of the latter). These studies will provide a challenge to all percussionists for whom there is a distinct shortage of suitable studies. Duration c. 5mins.

Following Malletino and Fun-4-All this work is the third in a series of compositions for five mallet instruments and five percussion instruments (including bongos and timpani). Malletino was written specifically for beginnerpercussion ensembles whereas the technical and musical level required for Sequenza Percussola is clearly higher. In short this work is a challenge for the ensemble-and a great pleasure for the audience.

Founded and directed by award-winning educator Diane Downs The Louisville Leopard Percussionists have been wowing audiences at national and regional conventions for years. In addition they were featured recently in the HBOFamily documentary The Music in Me in a segment entitled “The Leopards Take Manhattan: The Little Band That Roared.” Here are the authentic arrangements by Diane carefully edited by well-known educator/authorRick Mattingly. Each arrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments.

Discover the secrets of these exciting and versatile percussion instruments with this new guide by Richie Gajate-Garcia. Complete with two CDs of demonstrations and playalong backing tracks this comprehensive tutor gives you special insights into: Traditional and contemporary Timable patterns Rhythms for Cowbell Cascara Cymbal and more Tuning and maintenance Basic reading and notation Patterns for schoolmusic ensemblesPercussionists young and old will find this method easy-to-follow and loads of fun. A full Spanish translation is included.