Percussion


Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer
The Modern Concert Snare Drum Roll
Haskell W. Harr Drum Method: For Band and Orchestra Book One
Fundamental Method for Mallets, Book 2
Fundamental Method for Mallets, Book 1
The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams
The Cambridge Companion to Percussion (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich (Music since 1900)
Rudimental Arithmetic (A Drummer's Study of Pattern and Rhythm)
Indian Rhythms for Drumset
The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set: Includes the Rhythm Section Parts for Bass, Piano, Guitar, Horns & Strings, Book & Online Audio
Drums in the Americas
Another Country
Do-It-Yourself Drums: The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing
My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Perfect Wrong Note, The by William WestneyMusicophilia by Oliver SacksThe Musician's Way by Gerald KlicksteinTheory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg
Books for Musicians
83 books — 14 voters
Sympathy For The Drummer by Mike    EdisonCharlie Watts' Favorite Drummers by Chet FalzeranoBorn to Drum by Tony BarrellPostcards from the Boys by Ringo StarrThis Wheel's on Fire by Levon Helm
"Give the drummer some!"
63 books — 3 voters

The mistakes made in the up portion of the stroke fall into two basic categories: the "Foul invective! I seem to have strayed from the righteous path on the preparation. If I don't mend my ways forthwith, I'll soon tap the wrong slat." type, and the "Oh imminent impotence! I have pruned the recovery unripe. Now how shall I reap the fortissimo for which the audience verily drools?" brand. ...more
Leigh Howard Stevens, Method of Movement for Marimba

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.
Dr Susan Block

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