The Contemporary Percussionist - DVD

SKU: HL.50498947

SKU: HL.50498936

SKU: HL.14002373

ISBN 9788759810637. English.

This book is designed for the intermediate/advanced drummer to improve musical, technical control and reading ability, and presents several rhythmic styles, such as funk, jazz and Latin. I'm not trying to educate you on the 'correct' Cuban or Brazilian grooves, but have used this music as an inspiration for different phrashings and concepts. In the notes you can find book recommendations to explore the styles fully. Please feel free to use the material creatively, like repeating bars when you feel like it. You can also use the pieces for advanced sight reading, but I suggest that you take time to look carefully at the dynamics and stickings. All the stickings are basedon a right handed player (please reverse them if you are left handed). The basic concept is to have rhythmic compositions with basic classical notation and technique, that you can play on a drumset or on a practice pad with your feet stompin' at the floor. The first part is snare and bassdrum with hi-hat foot suggestions. Later in the book hi-hat (with stick) and snarerim are added. The advantage of these concepts is that playing through these etudes is very closely related to what is going on in modern music. Especially important for players in Jazz, Rock and Latin, but also very useful for a classical percussionist who needs solid music training. The last part of this book is a few pages of technique studies and rhythmic concepts that is related to the compositions. The purpose is not to include all basic strokes and principles (there are already many great books for that) but to show you some concepts that I have found useful and special through my years of playing and teaching. Michael Axen.

SKU: GI.G-317062

ISBN 9781574630558. UPC: 073999170627.

These 20 graduated solos requiring from 2 to 12 instruments are ideal for recital or solo festival. The comprehensive introduction provides essential information for performing today's percussion solos.

SKU: PR.44641192L

UPC: 680160610860. 11 x 14 inches.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing a concerto is exploring the new world that opens for me each time I enter the sometimes alien, but always fascinating, world of a solo instrument or instruments. For me, the challenge is to discover the deepest nature of the solo instrument (its karma, if you will) and to allow that essential character to guide the shape and form of the work and the nature of the interaction between soloists and orchestra. In recent years, many of us have become more aware of the musical world outside the Western tradition of musics that follow different procedures and spring from other aesthetics. And contemporary percussionists have opened many of these worlds to us, as they have ventured around the globe, participating in Brazilian Samba schools, studying Gamelan and African drumming with local experts, collecting instruments from Asia and Africa and South America and the South Pacific, widening our horizons in the process. I will never forget our first meeting in Toronto when Nexus invited me into their world of hundreds of exciting percussion instruments. The vast array of instruments in the collection of the Nexus ensemble is truly global in scope as well as offering a thrilling sound-universe. I was inspired by the incredible range of sound and moved by the fact that so many of these instruments were musical reflections of a spiritual dimension. After long consideration, I decided that it would not only be impossible, but even undesirable for this Western-tradition-steeped composer to attempt to use these instruments in a culturally authentic way. My goal was an existential kind of authenticity: searching instead for universal ideas that would be true to both myself and the performers while acknowledging the traditional uses of the instruments. Since many percussion instruments are associated with various kinds of ritual, I decided that I would allow that concept to shape my piece. Rituals is in four movements, each issuing from a ritual associated with percussion, but with the orchestral interaction providing an essential element in the musical form. I. Invocation alludes to the traditions of invoking the spirit of the instruments, or the gods, or the ancestors before performing. II. Ambulation moves from a processional, through march and dance to fantasy based on all three. III. Remembrances alludes to traditions of memorializing. IV. Contests progresses from friendly competition games, contests to a suggestion of a battle of big band drummers, to warlike exchanges. In the 2nd and 4th movements, another percussion tradition, improvisation, is employed. Written into these movements are a number of seeds for improvisation. Indications in the score call for the soloists to improvise in three different ways, marked A for percussion alone; marked B for percussion with and in response to the orchestra; and C where the percussionists are free to add and embellish the written parts. These improvisations should grow out of and embellish previous motives and gestures in the movement.

SKU: HL.48184518

UPC: 888680835439. 9x12 inches.

“Cont emporary percussionists Jacques-François Juskowiak and Dominique Marseille compile the second volume of Binary Rhythms with the objective of developing differing styles of various difficulty. Containing helpful indications of difficulty, the style of the pieces in this book reflect the playing of prominent drummers, such as Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro and Carlos Vega. Beginning with a page of instructions with regards to Drum notation, Binary Rhythms goes on to develop rhythm and coordination as a progression from the first volume, through its inspiring study pieces. This unique aid to drumming is key to all drummers seeking to vary and expand their style.&rdquo.

SKU: HL.48184517

UPC: 888680835422. 9x12 inches.

“Cont emporary percussionists, Jacques-François Juskowiak and Dominique Marseille compile the first volume of Rythmiques Binaires with the objective of developing differing styles of various difficulty. Containing helpful indications of difficulty, the style of the pieces in this book reflect the playing of prominent drummers, such as Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro and Carlos Vega. Beginning with a page of instructions with regards to Drum notation, Rythmiques Binaires goes on to develop rhythm and coordination through its inspiring study pieces. This unique aid to drumming is key to all drummers seeking to vary and expand their style.&rdquo.

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PER SEI PERCUSSIONISTI (1991).

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PER 6 PERCUSSIONISTI.

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PER 4 PERCUSSIONISTI (1967-1999).