Award-winning author, columnist, performer, bandleader, and clinician Daniel Glass offers a comprehensive introduction to drums and percussion, from hand drums to digital kits, and everything in between. In this well-illustrated guide, Glass covers the history of the drum, tracing the development of the modern drum kit while also discussing hand, concert, marching, and electronic percussion. In addition to breaking down the needed equipment and accessories available to today's young drummer, Glass offers notated lessons that explore basic rudiments as techniques used in classical, world, jazz, rock, and other genres. A noted historian as well, Glass also profiles great drummers from the jazz age through the present. The included DVD-ROM offers high-quality footage from Glass's clinics and performances. A marvelous resource!