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. 37
This book is designed to give the marimbist a stronger and more fluid facility behind the keyboard through a process known as downbeat displacement. This system will help the player literally understand a
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