Drums & Percussion Music.
Drum kit method, mallet percussion, snare etudes, percussion ensemble, world percussion, transcriptions of recorded drumming and the complete percussion pedagogical library.
Kit and mallet,
snare and tabla.
The percussion catalogue covers every working surface a percussionist might encounter. Drum kit: method books from Stick Control through the Modern Drummer Journal, transcriptions of every major recorded drummer (Bonham, Krupa, Rich, Peart, Weckl, Smith, Vinnie Colaiuta), plus the contemporary jazz and rock drumming method tradition.
Mallet percussion (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel): the standard literature for marimba solo, vibraphone jazz, xylophone show repertoire. Snare drum: the rudimental tradition (Wilcoxin, Pratt) plus the orchestral snare canon (Cirone, Delécluse). World percussion: tabla, congas, bongos, the African and Latin traditions.
Stick Control on Monday, conga ensemble Friday night.The Percussion Catalogue
For the studio
and the section.
Method books: George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control (the standard hand-development text since 1935), Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation, the Modern Drummer journal archives, Ted Reed's Syncopation. Mallet method: Rosauro, Stevens, Burton — the working pedagogy of the modern mallet player.
Solo and ensemble: percussion-ensemble works for high school and university programs, marimba solos at every grade, vibraphone jazz transcription, snare drum solo and competition literature. Plus the world-percussion method tradition: Nana Vasconcelos congas, Alla Rakha tabla, the entire ethnomusicology tradition.
