Drum Set Development L2
Snare Drum Development (SDD) and Drum Set Development (DD) are, throughout the PercMP Development Areas, the main framework around which all other Development Areas orbit; these areas have been conceived to help percussion and drum teachers achieve a profound view of their student’s improvements while guiding them throughout the higher levels of drum playing.
The student, while studying DD, should be simultaneously working on SDD: the level of DD tack- led, should be one less than SDD’s thus, when beginning the third level of SDD, the level of DD expressed in this book can be introduced.
DD consists of short pieces that the student will have to prepare for the following lesson; how these pieces will be mastered is an issue to be pre-emptively clarified in order to positively mon- itor the student’s progress. Therefore, the teacher will have to determine in advance which criteria to adopt when evaluating each piece and assigning a new one in its place.
In the pieces throughout all levels of DD, rhythmic patterns and time signatures are gradually introduced: technical skills, rhythmic skills and a sense of meter will therefore gradually improve.
When composing these works, one of the main objectives was to supply both students and teach- ers with pieces in which the formal structures would well be identifiable, thus stimulating an at- titude to analysing the pieces before studying them. Developing the ability to identify periods, phrases and motifs will surely allow the student to achieve a higher level of awareness; conse- quently, a higher degree of motivation for increasing one’s technical skills will strongly improve. While performing these pieces the student will therefore not find him/herself playing a series of grooves, where a rhythmic motif or phrase is constantly repeated throughout the piece, but will be required to interpret, by considering the drum set as a solo instrument, pieces with a musical meaning in their whole, even though they may - at a very first stage - be only of eight measures long.
The student, while studying DD, should be simultaneously working on SDD: the level of DD tack- led, should be one less than SDD’s thus, when beginning the third level of SDD, the level of DD expressed in this book can be introduced.
DD consists of short pieces that the student will have to prepare for the following lesson; how these pieces will be mastered is an issue to be pre-emptively clarified in order to positively mon- itor the student’s progress. Therefore, the teacher will have to determine in advance which criteria to adopt when evaluating each piece and assigning a new one in its place.
In the pieces throughout all levels of DD, rhythmic patterns and time signatures are gradually introduced: technical skills, rhythmic skills and a sense of meter will therefore gradually improve.
When composing these works, one of the main objectives was to supply both students and teach- ers with pieces in which the formal structures would well be identifiable, thus stimulating an at- titude to analysing the pieces before studying them. Developing the ability to identify periods, phrases and motifs will surely allow the student to achieve a higher level of awareness; conse- quently, a higher degree of motivation for increasing one’s technical skills will strongly improve. While performing these pieces the student will therefore not find him/herself playing a series of grooves, where a rhythmic motif or phrase is constantly repeated throughout the piece, but will be required to interpret, by considering the drum set as a solo instrument, pieces with a musical meaning in their whole, even though they may - at a very first stage - be only of eight measures long.
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Composer: Giovanni Andreani
Instrument: Drum Set Set required for this level: Snare Drum, Ride Cymbal, Floor Tom Difficulty: Elementary (what does this mean?) Publisher: GA-music Genre: Education, Teaching Method, Drum Set Pieces Book Type: Printed, Perfect Bound Size: 280 x 216 mm Number of pages: 40 Contents:
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