Basic Music Courses

 

Third Year Program


Snare Drum


Introduction to double strokes and simple rolls like 5, 7 and 9 rolls, flams and other rhythmical patterns like Paradiddles.


Methods:

George Lawrence Stone: Stick Control

Mitchell Peters: Intermediate 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


Technique studies and reading from:

George Hamilton Green:

  1. -Elementary studies for Xylophone

  2. -Instruction Course for Xylophone

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: My First Book for Xylophone and marimba (n° 12, 13 e 15)


Vibraphone and Marimba - 4 mallets


Enveloping of double vertical, single alternated and single independent strokes


Methods:

Leigh Howard Stevens: Method of Movement for Marimba

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic:

  1. -Funny Marimba (Vol. 1) n° 1, 2, 3

  2. -Funny Vibraphone n° 6, 7

David Friedman: Dampening & Pedaling (n° 5, 7, 8)

Ney Rosauro: Seven Brazilian Children Solos (n° 1, 2, 4, 5)


Drum Set


Exercises for rhythmic independence and readings for drum set.


Methods:

Dante Agostini

Peter Erskine: Drum Concepts

Jim Chapin


Tympani


Intonation of kettles and grip of mallets.

Two tympani’s studies without roll from books like:


Heinrich Knauer: 85 Ubungen fur Pauken

Richard Hochrainer, Friese - Lepak