Basic Musical Courses
Basic Musical Courses
First Year Program
Snare Drum
Beginning with matched or traditional grip
General principles of movement technique
Introduction to basic strokes (Full, Tap, Down, Up) and their application:
-Full and Tap strokes on same dynamic beats
-Rhythmic reading on principal binary and ternary times.
-Reading of eights, triplets and sixteenth notes with introduction to accents concept.
-Accents with using of Up and Down strokes on different dynamic beats starting for example from 1st chapter form the book “The Rudimental Drummer” by John Wooton.
Methods:
Mitchell Peters: Elementary Studies
David Vose: The Reading Drummer
John Wooton: The Rudimental Drummer
Ney Rosauro: Snare Drum Methods (Vol. I°)
E. Keune: Der Kleine Trommel
Xylophone
Beginning of two mallets technique
Introduction on roll technique, melodic patterns and scales
Methods:
George Hamilton Green: Elementary studies for Xylophone
Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: my First Book for Xylophone and marimba (till n° 5) with piano or marimba accompaniment.
Vibraphone
Introduction to Dampening and pedal use.
Methods:
David Friedman: Dampening & Pedaling (till n° 4)
Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: My First Book for Vibraphone (n° 1, 2, 4)
Ney Rosauro: Vibe Etudes
Drum Set
Introduction to the instrument, first rudiments and simple rhythmic patterns.
Percussion
Use of some important popular instruments like, claves, bongos, triangle and others.