Basic Musical Courses
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.