Develop more confidence in your playing! In his landmark technique book, Gordon Stout shares his insight with articles on "kinesthetic touch" (ideo-kinetics), correct practice technique and how to sightread.

The most detailed text ever written on the subject of four mallet playing. 15 chapters covering grip, strokes, shifts, tone production, interval changes, efficient movement around the instrument.

After 40 years with the New York Philharmonic and more than twenty years teaching at the Juilliard School, Elden "Buster" Bailey, one of the greatest snare drummers and snare drum teachers of all time, has finally written a snare drum book!

In this book, Butov addresses many of the major problems of advanced two mallet playing; double sticking, accuracy over wide leaps, independence of the two hands, etc. Twelve Advanced Etudes should be considered a must for the advanced student who wishes to truly master two-mallet playing.

This outstanding etude book, written by a member of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, emphasizes the equalization of the two hands via musically interesting compositions. The book's level of difficulty bridges that awkward gap between intermediate 2-mallet studies and advanced etudes and solos.

This fine collection of pieces by master teacher, Earl Hatch, is now available from Studio 4 Music. The collection includes "Furioso and Valse in D Minor," "Capriccio Marimba," "Dance of the Hippolollipops," "Etude 1955," and "Habanera."

This collection was designed specifically for the student who's college bound and who needs appropriate material for entrance and placement auditions. Written to cover a range of difficulty levels, the pieces (4 for mallets, 4 for snare drum, 4 for timpani, and 3 for multiple percussion) offer the serious high school student a choice of suitable and interesting solos to perform.

This book is a complete method for the beginning four-mallet student. Each of the five basic techniques is presented in a logical sequence through exercises, developmental etudes and short repertoire. The revised edition includes new material. Recommended for college freshmen.

What does arithmetic have to do with snare drum rudiments? What does mathematics have to do with rhythm? At a fundamental level, the answer to both questions is: everything.

Contemporary composers continue to make greater demands on the talents and skills of the percussionist. It is with this "new" percussionist in mind that Contemporary Collection for Snare Drum was composed.

Four-Mallet Progressive Literature is designed to be a companion to Four-Mallet Method for Marimba. The music selected for this text represents guitar and keyboard literature of major composers from the 16th through 19th centuries.

The most detailed text ever written on the subject of four mallet playing. 15 chapters covering grip, strokes, shifts, tone production, interval changes, efficient movement around the instrument. Now in a Japanese translation by Natsu Nagae

The thirty-five exercises in this book are designed to help the percussionist develop a stronger understanding of odd meters and time signatures. They start with simple rhythms and meters,which gradually become more difficult by adding complex rhythms, accents, dynamics,ornaments, rolls and shifting time signatures.

The most detailed text ever written on the subject of four mallet playing. 15 chapters covering grip, strokes, shifts, tone production, interval changes, efficient movement around the instrument. Now in a French translation by Frédéric Gauthier.

The most detailed text ever written on the subject of four mallet playing. 15 chapters covering grip, strokes, shifts, tone production, interval changes, efficient movement around the instrument. Now in an Italian translation by Sergio Torta.

The most detailed text ever written on the subject of four mallet playing. 15 chapters covering grip, strokes, shifts, tone production, interval changes, efficient movement around the instrument. Now in a German translation by Jasmin Kolberg.