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Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Percussion instruments
Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because when he heard
bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially
English sound of bell-ringing lies a unique way of hanging bells
and a special way of ringing them that evolved in the late
sixteenth century. Ringing has since developed and spread, with
some 6,000 towers worldwide having bells hung in the English style,
most of them in England. Over 40,000 active ringers keep alive the
traditions and skills of change ringing that have been handed down
over many generations.
The book is an introduction to the world of bells and bell-ringing.
It explains how bells are made and how a ringing installation
works. It explains the nature of change ringing, which has
mathematical as well as musical aspects. It provides insights into
the ringing community - its origins and culture as well as its
relationships with the Church and the community.
(Berklee Guide). Step away from the practice pad Legendary drummer
Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to
limber up your entire body. Features exercises to develop and
improve your speed, power, control, coordination, independence,
accuracy, endurance and agility. With this book, you'll gain a
greater facility and command of the drum set, along with an
increased feeling of confidence. "The definitive text for improving
technical facility on the drum set." Ron Spagnardi
Editor/Publisher, Modern Drummer
In the past fifty years, the bodhrÃn, or traditional Irish
circular frame drum, has undergone a rapid evolution in
development. Traditionally, it is a shallow drum ranging from ten
to twenty-six inches in diameter, covered in goatskin on the top
(or drum) side and open on the other. Unlike any other instrument
associated with Irish traditional music, the bodhrÃn has been
dramatically altered by its confrontation with modern instrument
design, performance techniques, and musical practice. Colin Harte's
The BodhrÃn: Experimentation, Innovation, and the Traditional
Irish Frame Drum presents a definitive history of the bodhrÃn from
its early origins to its present-day resurgence in Irish American
folk music. The bodhrÃn has global roots and bears many
characteristics of older drums from northern Africa and the Middle
East. Harte picks up on these basic similarities and embarks on an
engaging tour of the instrument's historical and organological
development, gradual evolution in playing styles, and more recent
history of performative practice. Drawing from a host of interviews
over a multi-year period with participants primarily located in
Europe and North America, this work provides a platform for
multiple perspectives regarding the bodhrÃn. Participants include
bodhrÃn makers, professional performers, educators, amateur
musicians, historians, and enthusiasts. Growing out of rich
ethnographic interviews, this book serves as the definitive
reference for understanding and navigating the developments in the
bodhrÃn's history, organology, performance practices, and
repertoire.
(Percussion). Peter Magadini's Polyrhythms is acclaimed the world
over and has been hailed by Modern Drummer magazine as "by far the
best book on the subject." Written for instrumentalists and
vocalists alike, this book/CD pack contains excellent solos and
exercises that feature polyrhythmic concepts. Topics covered
include: 6 over 4, 5 over 4, 7 over 4, 3 over 4, 11 over 4, and
other rhythmic ratios; combining various polyrhythms; polyrhythmic
time signatures; and much more. The CD includes demos of the
exercises. To see Peter in action demonstrating various
polyrhythms, (a href="http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7YtjO6Mqc"
target="_blank")click here(/a). To purchase Peter Magadini's
stand-alone CD Polyrhythm (different from the CD that accompanies
this book), you can visit www.petermagadini.com.
Bill Bruford, once called the godfather of progressive-rock
drumming, has been at the top of his profession for four decades.
This is his memoir of life at the heart of prog rock, art rock, and
modern jazz, playing with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Earthworks
and many more. It is an honest and entertaining account of life on
the road and in the studio, rubbing shoulders with the famous, the
less famous, and the infamous, and creating an impressive tally of
great music. A rock musician with the temperament of a classical
musician who became a jazz musician, Bruford defies all the cliches
about drummers. He says: "You write what you have to write, you
play what you have to play, because you cannot sleep at night. If
you can sleep at night, you shouldn't be doing this anyway." From
time to time, at polite dinner parties, someone will ask Bill what
he does. He replies that he is a musician. "Yes, but what do you
really do?" retorts the enquirer. This unusual, funny and
insightful music memoir answers that question.
Updated to include 50 additional grooves, this encyclopedic book
and two-CD set contains more than 450 musical examples in standard
notation, showing grooves and practical variations. Overviews of
the history and development of almost all popular music styles are
covered alongside innumerable helpful performance tips. The two
accompanying CDs feature performances of nearly 200 of the grooves,
including every primary style example, all performed both with and
without a click track. Styles covered include blues, rock, jazz,
reggae, country, klezmer, ska, samba, punk, surf, heavy metal,
latin rock, and funk; virtually every style a performing drummer
will ever need to play is in there. This revised second edition
also includes an updated bibliography and discography, as well as
more historical information about the individual styles.
In Modern Etudes and Studies for the Total Percussionist, band
director and percussionist Chris Colaneri lays out a comprehensive
system of total percussion education. The lessons are gleaned from
interviews, research, and the nearly two decades he has spent
directing middle school band and percussion ensembles. Where the
first edition of the book addressed total percussion education for
the seventh-grade student and included simple audio examples and
practice tracks, this expanded second edition meets needs of sixth-
through eighth-grade percussion students, helping them develop
intermediate skills for future participation in a high school or
extracurricular band setting. Music examples throughout are
carefully sized for easy reading, and students will find more
information about equipment they should own, world percussion
techniques, and famous percussionists. Developed with the practical
needs of percussion teachers in mind, Modern Etudes has been
extensively classroom tested and provides key teaching aids that
will be welcomed by every band director. These include a curriculum
guide and practice assignment sheets for all three grades; practice
tips; and exercises and etudes for snare, mallet, set, and timpani.
Recordings and practice tracks are available on the book's
companion website.
(Percussion). This is the book on hand development and drumstick
control. Master Studies focuses on these important aspects: accent
studies, buzz-roll exercises, single and double-stroke patterns,
control studies, flam patterns, dynamic development, endurance
studies, and much more
In Learning to Listen, Gary Burton shares his fifty years of
experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy award
winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, has toured and
recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names, and is one of only
a few openly gay musicians in jazz. Burton is a true innovator,
both as a performer and an educator. His autobiography is one of
the most personal and insightful jazz books ever written.
The "Goldenberg book" has been used by generations of orchestral
mallet players to develop their skills. As well as studies and
etudes, this book includes excerpts of major orchestral repertoire
for keyboard percussion instruments. This edition, edited by Tony
Cirone, includes phrasings that were inherent in the music but not
specifically written out. Stickings are also addressed: the
original stickings are in uppercase letters, and the added
stickings are in lowercase. This book is the primary source for
keyboard percussion players to learn technique and orchestral
repertoire.
(Musicians Institute Press). This private lesson covers common
symbols and musical shorthand, section figures and ensemble
figures, accents, set-up ideas, and embellishment, and swing, big
band, and other styles. The CD includes 16 full-demo examples.
(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help
you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the
notation, listen to the CD to hear how the harmonica should sound,
and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody
and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing,
or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any
CD player, and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the
recording to any tempo without changing pitch Volume 9 includes:
Got My Mo Jo Working * Hard Hearted Woman * Help Me * I Ain't Got
You * Juke * Messin' with the Kid * One More Heartache * Walking by
Myself.
Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The African Drum as Symbol in Early
America questions the ban that was placed on the African drum in
early America. It shows the functional use of the drum for
celebrations, weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, and
nonviolent communication. The assumption that "drums and horns"
were used to communicate in slave revolts is undone in this study.
Rather, this volume seeks to consider the "social place" of the
drum for both blacks and whites of the time, using the writings of
Europeans and colonial-era Americans, the accounts of African
American free persons and slaves, the period instruments, and
numerous illustrations of paintings and sculpture. The image of the
drum was effectively appropriated by Europeans and Americans who
wrote about African American culture, particularly in the
nineteenth century, and re-appropriated by African American poets
and painters in the early twentieth century who recreated a
positive nationalist view of their African past. Throughout human
history, cultural objects have been banned by one group to be used
another, objects that include books, religious artifacts, and ways
of dress. This study unlocks a metaphor that is at the root of
racial bias-the idea of what is primitive-while offering a fresh
approach by promoting the construct of multiple-points-of-view for
this social-historical presentation.
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