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1946-1947 -- 1948-1949 -- 1950-1951 -- 1952-1953 -- 1954-1955 -- 1956-1957 -- 1958-1959 -- 1960-1961 -- 1962-1963 -- 1964-1965 -- 1966-1967 -- 1968-1969 -- 1970-1971 -- 1972-1973 -- 1974-1975 -- 1976-1977. |
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1946-1947. What size drums? ; Snare drum stick grip ; The long roll ; Teaching the rudiments ; New instruments, snares, new solos, heads ; The high school and college timpanist ; The marching band drum section / John P. Noonan -- Which instrument is best for schools? / James Dutton -- 1948-1949. Developing drummers / Roy C. Knapp -- Marimba musings ; The story of the marimba / James Dutton -- Stroke rolls ; Flams ; Your drum questions answered / John P. Noonan -- Marimba repertory / James Dutton -- The tympani section ; The snare drummer / John P. Noonan -- Effective use of the marimba / James Dutton -- Street beats / John P. Noonan -- Percussion procedures in Florida / Arved M. Larsen -- How to play the marimba, part I / James Dutton -- Drum rolls / Haskell W. Harr -- 1950-1951. How to play the marimba, part II / James Dutton -- The South American way of drumming / John P. Noonan -- How to play the marimba, part III / James Dutton -- The timpanist / Edward M. Metzenger -- How to play the marimba, part IV / James Dutton -- "It's all in the head" / John P. Noonan -- Survey of mallet instruments / James Dutton -- The beginning drummer ; Continuing with the drummer ; The intermediate and advanced drummer / John P. Noonan -- Care and repair of percussion instruments / Paul Price -- Traps and accessories ; Odds and ends ; The "hi hat" and how it grew ; The concert bass drum / John P. Noonan -- Percussion problems in high school bands / Richard P. Scherer -- 1952-1953. Drumming standards as I have observed them / Alan Abel -- Triangle, tambourine, and castanets / Sidney Berg -- Confusion confounds as authorities argue ; 'Sticking' methods cause controversy / John P. Noonan -- Developing the clean roll / Bill Muehler -- Advice on selecting, training drummers for marching bands / James D. Salmon -- Learning to apply the drum rudiments / Acton E. Ostling -- Tympani study needs basis of musicianship / Joe Barry Mullins -- Percussion ensemble class gives training in 'new style' music / Paul Price -- Hints on care and use of tympani / Saul Goodman -- Drums on the march (2); Music now available for drum ensembles / Haskell W. Harr -- Does your percussion meet high standards? / H.E. Nutt -- 1954-1955. Facts about chimes ; Care of drum heads is important factor in length of service / Haskell W. Harr -- The percussionist's problem: phrasing / Jack Lee -- Drum rolls / Bill Muehler -- Training in rudiments essential to drumming / John P. Noonan -- Drumming with just eight rudiments ; From just eight rudiments to many different rhythms, part I ; From just eight rudiments to many different rhythms, part II / Haskell W. Harr -- Marching band drum section, asset or liability? / Robert W. Buggert -- Is your bass drum an uncontrolled monster? / Joe Berryman -- What is your tympani IQ? / Haskell W. Harr -- Rudimental bass drumming / Acton Ostling -- What is your marimba IQ? / Haskell W. Harr -- Drums, drummers and drumming / John P. Noonan -- Materials for drumheads / Howard P. Emery -- The fall semester ; The Edward B. Straight books / Robert W. Buggert -- Organize for efficiency / Charles L. Spohn -- |
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1956-1957. Rudimental system and straight system / Robert W. Buggert -- Percussion pointers / James D. Salmon -- Timpani sticks / Fred William Noak -- Applications of various types of stick technique / Robert W. Buggert -- Dear band director: / Betty Masoner -- Solo literature for timpani / Fred William Noak -- Developing precision in the marching band drum section ; The beginning drummer / Robert W. Buggert -- The percussion ensemble / Jack McKenzie -- It started as a gourd / William J. Murdoch -- Solo literature for the beginning snare drummer ; Latin American instruments and rhythms, part I: Rhumbas ; Latin American instruments and rhythms, part II: Sambas, congas, tangos, and beguines / Robert W. Buggert -- All plastic drum heads / William F. Ludwig -- Percussion pointers / Lawrence White -- Variety in cadences / Robert W. Buggert -- Drums for the marching band / Betty Masoner -- Percussion recordings / Charles A. Irick -- 1958-1959. Snare drum roll / Emil Sholle -- Let's have percussion ensembles / Thomas L. Davis -- Calfskin vs. plastic drumheads / Arthur E. Neumann -- Teacher-training in percussion / Michael B. Lamade -- The timpanist, ideas and suggestions, part I ; The timpanist, ideas and suggestions, part II / William Sebastian Hart -- Preparation for popular music / Robert W. Buggert -- Percussion in football band / Thomas L. Davis -- Tenor and Scotch bass drums / Haskell W. Harr -- Starting the beginners' drum section / Bill Muehler -- Drumming in 6/8 time / Haskell W. Harr -- Interpreting rolls / James D. Salmon -- Rolls in rhythm / James L. Moore -- The neglected triangle / William Sebastian Hart -- Teaching basic rhythm / Robert Slider -- Passing inspection / Betty Masoner -- Bass drumming / Vincent B. Mottola -- Significant percussion facts / William D. Olive -- Correct sticking / LaVerne R. Reimer -- Temple blocks, the gong / William Sebastian Hart -- 1960-1961. The three camps / LaVerne R. Reimer -- Bass drum and its player / Kenneth C. Krause -- Use of percussion by some great composers / Lawrence White -- Drummers can be good neighbors too! / Fred Begun -- Changing concepts / Richard Schory -- Quality of percussion instruments ; The physical approach to drumming, part I / Fred D. Hinger -- The concert snare drum / John P. Noonan -- The physical approach to drumming, part II / Fred D. Hinger -- Using the tenor drum / Kenneth Krause -- Selection and use of cymbals / William Sebastian Hart -- 13 fundamental drum rudiments / Rex Morgan Longyear -- A test of percussion IQ / James L. Moore -- The physical approach to drumming, part III / Fred D. Hinger -- Improving snare drum instruction / Maxine Lefever -- Bass drum celebrity / John M. Crawford -- Same grip with both hands / Jack McKenzie -- The differences among xylophone, marimba, vibraphone / Vida Chenoweth -- Suggestions for drummers / Marvin Rosenberg -- Starting percussion students on mallet instruments / Rex Morgan Longyear -- Discovering mallet instruments, part I ; Discovering mallet instruments, part II / Wallace Barnett -- |
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1962-1963. Better drummers in thirty minutes / Kenneth Krause -- Improving the percussion section / Maxine Lefever -- Discovering mallet instruments, part III, chimes in instrumental music / Wallace Barnett -- Why percussion ensembles? / Gordon Peters -- An important instrument / William S. Hart -- Practice hints for vibists / Wallace Barnett -- Drums and drumming / William F. Ludwig, Sr. -- Those confusing 5- and 7-stroke rolls / Haskell W. Harr -- The thinking drummer / Louis Bellson -- Literature for timpani / Mervin Britten -- Big Bertha booms again / Harold B. Bachman -- The enchanted third / Serge de Gastyne -- The marimba in the concert band / Gordon Peters -- The school percussion section / Larry W. McCormick -- The mallet percussions / Wallace Barnett -- Intonation and percussions / Ralph R. Pottle -- The marching band percussion section / Maxine Lefever -- A likehand grip for holding snare drum sticks / Neal Fluegel -- Percussion class / David A. Tobias -- Develop a timpani player in just three weeks / Kenneth Krause -- The bass drummer / Betty Masoner -- Mallet percussions / James D. Salmon -- Tambourine technique / William Sebastian Hart -- Instrument care and repair / Roy Markle -- Timpani tuning in difficult weather conditions / Roland Kohloff -- Purposeful practice for drummers / Charles Perry -- Harnessing the student drummer / Nicholas Tawa -- Detached rolls in snare drumming / Mitchell Peters -- 1964-1965. Ten contest tips for percussionists / Maxine Lefever -- A tuning indicator for the kettledrum / Charles L. White -- Mallet percussion vs. composers / Joel Leach -- Our responsibilities in percussion ; Organizing the school percussion section / Gordon Peters -- Percussion book reviews -- Equipping the cymbalist ; Techniques of cymbal playing / Sam Denov -- The stage band drummer / Kenneth Krause -- Tambourine technic / Mitchell Peters -- Equipment recommendations ; Care and maintenance of percussion instruments / Gordon Peters -- Tips on contest snare drumming / Ron Fink -- The triangle: don't underestimate it / James J. Ross -- Initiating a percussion ensemble program / Gordon Peters -- The matched grip vs. the unmatched grip / Jerry Carrico -- Changes in percussion adjudication / Percussive Arts Society -- Percussion scoring / Hoyt F. LeCroy -- Parts for marching bands / David Maker -- Latin American percussion / David A. Tobias -- The double stroke in mallet technique / Mitchell Peters -- 1966-1967. The marimba in the band ; Concert bass drumming / Gordon Peters -- Care and maintenance / John H. Beck -- Ear training and the timpanist / Gordon Peters -- Tune up those drums / Joel T. Leach -- Outline guide to percussion orchestration / Gordon Peters -- Improving your marching band drum section / Larry W. McCormick -- The beginning percussion class / Jesse Pearl -- Common faults of school percussionists / Paula Culp -- Teach your drummers to sing / Gordon Peters -- Percussion ensemble floor plans / Ramon Meyer -- A revised percussion contest in Wisconsin / Jay Collins -- Teaching mallet percussion / Bob Tilles -- Factors in percussion tone quality / Mitchell Peters -- More Latin rhythms: samba, baion, bossa nova / Thomas Brown -- Camp duty / Lewis Harlow -- Marching band percussion / James Salmon -- The Percussive Arts Society / Gordon Peters -- Effective use of cymbals / Larry McCormick -- Forget the music, drummers, just try to follow! / Alyn Heim -- The notation and interpretation of rolls / Ramon Meyer -- |
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1968-1969. New ideas for clinics / John Galm -- Triangle technique / Mitchell Peters -- The multiple bounce roll / William Schinstine -- Organizing the percussion section I, introduction / H. Owen Reed & Joel Leach -- II. The section leader, key to organization / Michael Combs -- Enhancing performance through imagery / Sherman Hong -- Fear not the kettle drum / Mervin Britton -- A beginning percussion class / Rees Olson -- Multiple percussion playing / Saul Feldstein -- Questions, answers, and suggestions for mallet instruments / Joel Leach -- Sightreading in percussion contests? Yes! / Maxine Lefever -- Preparation for the collegiate percussion audition / Terry Applebaum -- Training today's percussionist / Donald Stanley -- Questions and answers about timpani / Joel Leach -- The place of the marimba in the school music program / Carolyn Reid Sisney -- Changing concepts in percussion / Donald Gilbert -- School directors and their percussion sections / Gordon Peters -- Mambo rhythms / Jerome Mouton -- The Second Annual International Percussion Symposium -- Organizing the percussion section / Donald Gilbert -- 1970-1971. It's contest time again / Al Payson -- A good snare drum grip and seven deadly errors / Mervin Britton -- Join the Percussive Arts Society ; A percussion perspective: 1970 / Gordon Peters -- Percussion contests, time for change? / Donald K. Gilbert -- Snares alive, where are you? / William Hertel -- Care and repair of percussion instruments / Donald F. Knaack -- The improvisation, a creative experience / Terry Applebaum -- 2B or not 2B? / Paul T. Mazzacano -- A director looks at his percussion section / Gene A. Braught -- Sight-reading on the snare drum / Sherman Hong -- Rudimental families / Mervin W. Britton -- How to organize a high school percussion ensemble / Donald F. Knaack -- Playing percussion musically / Betty Masoner -- A marching band percussion audition / George Frock -- Developing the rudimental snare drum grip / Joe M. Pullis -- Developing a good snare drum roll / Mervin W. Britton -- Reviews of percussion materials / F. Michael Combs -- 1972-1973. The beat / Richard Hochrainer -- Chamber percussion: approach to musicality / John Bircher, Jr. -- Keyboard percussion in the school music program / F. Michael Combs -- Percussion materials review -- The super soft roll and how to develop it / Roy Burns -- Which marching band drumming style do you prefer? / Geary Larrick -- Organize your marching band drum section early / F. Michael Combs -- Editing the marching band percussion part / Bill Kreutzer -- Three way flams / William J. Schinstine -- Three multi-timpani works before Berlioz / David Whitwell & Ronald Johnson -- Selecting a snare drum method book ; Survey of percussion specialists / F. Michael Combs -- The evolution of early jazz drumming / Theodore D. Brown -- Percussionists and the contest/festival ; The set drummer, advice from the pros / F. Michael Combs -- A guide to foreign percussion terms / Tennessee Chapter of The Percussive Arts Society -- How to apply drum rudiments to 6/8 meter / Haskell W. Harr -- Marching tonal percussion / Larry B. Snider -- Percussion ensemble literature / F. Michael Combs -- Percussion students' "inventions" / LaVerne R. Reimer -- Some remarks about multiple timpani and Berlioz / C.B. Wilson -- University marching band drum cadences, part I ; University marching band drum cadences, part II / F. Michael Combs -- |
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1974-1975. Techniques of tambourine playing / Donald F. Knaack -- Careers in percussion, part I ; Careers in percussion, part II / Ron Fink -- What's next for mallets / Thomas A. Brown -- Cymbal and gong techniques / Dennis E. Kahle -- An interview with Fred Sanford / Ron Fink -- University marching band drum cadences, part III ; Snare drum method books / F. Michael Combs -- Performing a musical show / James R. Beckham -- Selecting suspended cymbals / Lynn Glassock -- Concepts for the inexperienced mallet player / Larry Snider -- Flams, ruffs, and rolls / Terry Applebaum -- The conga drum / Ron Delp -- Marching percussion, an interview with Larry McCormick / Ron Fink -- Developing keyboard mallet technique / Karen Ervin -- Today's field percussion / Fred Sanford -- Notational standards for percussion / Frank McCarty -- Percussion notation / Vaclav Nelhybel -- A band director's guide to percussion texts / Jim McKinney -- The percussionist/band director / Ron Fink -- Fundamental techniques for the marching drum section / Sherman Hong -- The buzz roll / Lynn Glassock -- What to tell your stage band drummers / Ron Fink -- 1976-1977. Repairing the tambourine / Michael W. Udow -- Guide to the private percussion lesson / Garwood Whaley -- Tips on timpani / Vic Firth -- Acoustics of percussion instruments, part I ; Acoustics of percussion instruments, part II / Thomas D. Rossing -- Timpani tone, the untapped potential / Ronald F. Vernon -- Acoustics of tuned bars / Thomas D. Rossing -- Understanding ruffs and drags / Paul Lawrence -- Concert preparations for the timpanist / Larry D. Snider -- Play a multiple percussion solo / James R. McKinney -- Repertoire for percussionists / Merrill Brown -- How and when to teach rolls / Donald K. Gilbert -- Multiple percussion techniques, part I ; Multiple percussion techniques, part II / Donald R. Baker -- Height adjustment and placement of percussion instruments / Hoyt F. LeCroy. |
| Abstract |
This collection of articles from past issues of The Instrumentalist offers a comprehensive body of information about percussion instruments and playing techniques. It is unequaled in scope and authority for a volume of its size. The timeless subjects, covered by authors who are experts in their fields, span thirty-one years of publication. In addition to practical information on percussion playing and teaching techniques, music literature is listed and discussed. Also included are tips for contests and auditions and reviews of books on percussion. The articles appear in chronological order as they were printed in The Instrumentalist. Two indices in the back of the book make it possible for the reader to find any article by author or subject. |
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Instrumentalist. |
| LCCN | 78311332 |
