Percussion


Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer
The Modern Concert Snare Drum Roll
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
Full Flight
A French Girl in New York
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
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
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Theory of Harmony by Arnold SchoenbergEvoking Sound by James Mark JordanA Well-Tempered Mind by Peter PerretBook of Musical Anecdotes by Norman Lebrecht
Books for Musicians
67 books — 12 voters

Patrick R.F. Blakley
Percussion is my religion, and the band room is my cathedral. Inside this holy place, I don’t believe in anything more than myself.
Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music

Mistakes made in the down portion of the stroke are usually of the "Goodness me, I've gone and hit the wrong bloody note!" variety. ...more
Leigh Howard Stevens, Method of Movement for Marimba

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