Basic Musical Courses

 

Second Year Program


Snare Drum


Execution of mixed strokes, sixteen and double triplets rhythms

Exercises of dynamics and accents


Methods:

George Lawrence Stone: Stick Control

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 and Vibraphone - 2 mallets


Studies and techniques from following methods:

George Hamilton Green: Elementary studies for Xylophone

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic:

- My First Book for Xylophone and marimba (n° 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15)

- Funny Vibraphone: n° 3 e 5


Vibraphone and Marimba - 4 mallets


Knowledge of the principal four mallets techniques and grip of a principal one choosing from: Musser, Traditional, Burton or Stevens

Introduction to double vertical strokes technique.

Studies of chromatic patterns using fourth and fifth intervals.

Major and Minor chords in fundamental and other positions.


Methods:

Leigh Howard Stevens: Method of Movement for Marimba

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: Funny Marimba

David Friedman: Dampening & Pedaling (n° 6, 7, 8)

David Samuels: A Musical Approach for vibraphone

Ney Rosauro: Vibe Etudes


Drum Set


Basic simple rhythms applied on rock and jazz music


Methods:

Dante Agostini

Peter Erskine: Drum Concepts


Percussion


Rhythms from latin - american tradition.