After some piano and snare drum instruction, Julia Gaines' Sequential Studies for Four-Mallet Marimba is the next step needed for learning four-mallet marimba. It includes twenty sequential lessons with four or five exercises each that focus on a different technical aspect of four-mallet technique. This text will work on your stroke, interval expansion, and stamina. Also included are eight beginning solos, three commissioned specifically for this book. All you need to do is pick your mallets and you'll be playing your first solo in no time!