Designed to encourage students to learn sight-reading from the very beginning of study, Sight-Reading Duets for Beginning Mallet Players provides duets in a variety of styles, keys and time signatures. Playable on one four-octave marimba or two larger mallet instruments, these duets are truly an important addition to early mallet studies.

Designed to encourage students to learn sight-reading from the very beginning of study, Sight-Reading Duets for Beginning Mallet Players provides duets in a variety of styles, keys and time signatures. Playable on one four-octave marimba or two larger mallet instruments, these duets are truly an important addition to early mallet studies.

This unique collection of original sight-reading duets features a challenging teacher's part as well as a simplified student part. The teacher and student alternate playing the top line, enabling the student to become familiar with a wider range of the instrument without becoming accustomed to always playing one line or the other. Mallet Duets for the Student & Teacher is the ideal way to teach sight-reading!

(Meredith Music Percussion). A complete intermediate method that includes studies in technique, reading, duets and four-mallets. (a href="http://youtu.be/5GHNbQAYdHY" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Musical Studies for the Intermediate Mallet Player(/a)

The 3-D Band Book is a three-dimensional approach to rehearsal preparation. This complete tune up/warm up program will reduce rehearsal stress and permit greater accomplishment with less effort. The overall preparedness that this book provides will make every rehearsal a more rewarding and enjoyable experience. The book is divided into three parts: tune up/warm up, key preparation, and rhythm preparation. In addition, there are three pages of harmony and ear training which will provide the basic knowledge necessary for relating to the exercises and chorales found in the book.

Any combination and any number of instruments can play together in harmony. Woodwinds, brass, strings, and mallet percussion can have fun playing in like-instrument or mixed-instrument ensembles. Quartets for All covers a wide range of styles and music by composers from baroque through contemporary eras. Difficulty ranges from grades 1 through 3. The pages are laid out in an identical manner in each book so that performers can quickly locate a point for discussion or rehearsal. No page turning is required while playing. Quartets for All meets the needs of classmates, friends, family, and neighbors who wish to play together for festivals, concerts or just for fun. Titles: * Galiardo (Bull) * Seventh Symphony [Theme] (Beethoven) * Finlandia (Sibelius) * Tarantella (Prokofiev) * Promenade (Gretchaninoff) * The Death of Ase (Grieg) * March of the Men of Harlech (Welsh) * Prelude (Kabalevsky) * March (Gurlitt) * Happy Tune (Stoutamire) * Angeles We Have Heard on High (Carol) * Folk Song (Bartok)

A collection of standard snare drum solos for contest, recital or jury. Titles: * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Circling * Cut and Shoot * Echo Valley * Kirk's March * March for a Different Drummer * Our Director * Picking Up Six * Track South * Tie Two * Up Beat Pete's Suite * Vacation Antics * Whodonit