Basic Musical Courses

 

Fourth Year Program


Snare Drum


Further to improvement of all rudiments already studied on past years, it will be introduced the multiple drags and more complex rudimental sequences.

Multiple roll and symphonic roll.


Methods:

George Lawrence Stone: Stick Control

Mitchell Peters: Intermediate studies

John Wooton: The Rudimental Drummer

Ney Rosauro: Snare Drum Methods (Vol. 2°)

E. Keune: Der Kleine Trommel


Xylophone and Vibraphone - 2 mallets


Technique and reading from follow methods:

George Hamilton Green:

  1. -Elementary studies for Xylophone

  2. -Instruction Course for Xylophone

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: Funny Xylophone

Wolfgang Pachla: 12 Etuden fur marimba


Vibraphone and Marimba - 4 mallets


Technique methods:

Leigh Howard Stevens: Method of Movement for Marimba

David Samuels: A Musical Approach for vibraphone


Studies and readings:

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic:

  1. -Funny Marimba (Vol. 1) n° 4, 5, 6

  2. -Funny Vibraphone

David Friedman: Dampening & Pedaling (n° 9, 10, 11)

Ney Rosauro: Seven Brazilian Children Solos (n° 3, 6, 7)


Drum Set


Independence and reading for drum set from books like:

Dante Agostini, Peter Erskine: Drum Concepts, Jim Chapin


Tympani


Roll technique

Two tympani’s studies with rolls from:

Heinrich Knauer: 85 Ubungen fur Pauken, Richard Hochrainer, Friese - Lepak


Classic repertoire for tympani

Beethoven: Symphony n° 1

e symphonies by Mozart (Haffner, Linz) & Haydn