Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble PerformanceHand Drumming Essentials is unlike any book you've seen! This innovative new approach provides all the information you need to begin and maintain your own hand drumming ensemble. The book includes an introduction to hand drumming; instruments of the hand drumming ensemble (including conga, bongos and timbales, and exotic world percussion instruments such as agogo, axatse, caxixi and toke); performance techniques; rehearsal techniques; the development of hand drumming technique; and compositions for performance. |
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Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques and Compositions for ... Cheryl Grosso No preview available - 2000 |
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accessory percussion accompanying compositions axatse barrel-shaped drum basket shakers bass tone bell bongos C. A. Grosso calfskin head clave conga and tumba conga drums conga Third conga trio cowbell dead stroke double-bell downbeat drumhead ensemble members ensemble setting enters on measure filler tone gankogui gourd guiro hand drumming ensemble hand R=Right hand head diameter improvisation Instrument Doubling John Bergamo L=Left hand R=Right log drums mallet marimba matched grip minor third muffled slap muffled tones notes Minimum Number Notes written Number of Players open stroke open tone pattern percussion instruments perfect fourth performance notes Minimum pitch Playing position produce quinto Second rhythm chant RLRL RLRLRL RLRLRLRL slap stroke slap tone snare drum soloist solos sound staff are played stick stroke types strong hand Surdo plays tamborim tambourine thumb Timbales tions toke triangle tube shaker tuned vocalize weak hand wood agogo оо ооо