Tipbook: Music for Kids and Teens: A Guide for Parents and 
Caregivers
Music for Kids and Teens: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
n Have you been wanting to introduce the world of music to your children or grandchildren but you are unsure how to go about it? This new Tipbook is a handy and thorough guide that will answer all your questions. Music for Kids and Teens is relevant to children of every age and musical genre and includes numerous tips and thoughts applicable to other aspects of their upbringing as well.
The book is based on information gathered from the experiences of musicians, teachers, directors, parents, and other specialists and includes topics such as: why should we introduce children to music, choosing and instrument, practicing tips and tools, stage fright and audition anxiety, and much more.
Music for Kids and Teens: a Guide for Parents and Caregivers, by Hugo Pinksterboer, The Tipbook Company, Heemstede, The Netherlands, 2006.
All About Drums
All About Drums will help you finally start playing the beats and fills to your favorite songs, whether you want to learn to read music, play by ear, or create your own beats. You will also learn about drum set makes and models, care and maintenance, and other percussion instruments. The book includes more than 30 rock, jazz, blues, Latin, and funk songs.
All About Drums by Rick Mattingly, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2006.
Kenwood Dennard: The Studio/Touring Drummer [DVD]
In this DVD workshop drummers get tips and techniques directly from one of the most in-demand drummers in the business, Kenwood Dennard. He covers subjects such as how to get the most out of each practice session, how to internalize melody, and how to play melodic solos. Lessons on the 61-minute DVD also include: adapting your groove to the artist’s style; setting up a good foundation for different drum geographies; solfège techniques; and the use of contrast, registration, and orchestration.
Dennard has spent 25 years playing with jazz, pop, and funk greats including Herbie Hancock and Maceo Parker, and he is an associate professor of percussion at Berklee College of Music.
Kenwood Dennard: The Studio/Touring Drummer, with Kenwood Dennard, Berklee Press, Boston, MA, 2004.
Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set
Rudiments represent the basic vocabulary of rhythms that drummers arrange and rearrange when they play grooves, solos, and fills. Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set shows you how to apply the rudiments to the drum set in all styles of music and every facet of drumming including single and double strokes; stroked rolls; drags; flams; paradiddles, double paradiddles, paradiddle grooves, and fills; and combinations.
The 50 illustrated grooves are reinforced with the accompanying CD, allowing readers to hear how the rudiments sound when applied to the drum set.
Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set, by Rick Considine, Berklee Press, Boston, MA, 2003.
Drum Set Warm-Ups: Essential Exercises for Improving Technique
“After years of warming up exclusively on a practice pad before tearing into my drums, I was struck by the realization that playing a drum set involves a dramatically wider range of body motions, movements, and coordination than a drum pad,” says Rod Morgenstein, drummer with the Grammy-nominated progressive rock-fusion group the Dixie Dregs and multi-year winner of Modern Drummer readers poll’s Best Progressive Rock Drummer.
From that realization Drum Set Warm-Ups was written. While snare/pad warm-up books focus on hand, wrist, and finger development, this book will get your whole body moving to develop and improve: speed and power, control and coordination, independence and accuracy, as well as endurance and agility. The book is a perfect complement to warming up on a practice pad. It will help you develop the skills and techniques to play to your full potential, increasing your confidence and giving you a greater facility and command of the drum set.
Drum Set Warm-Ups: Essential Exercises for Improving Technique, by Rod Morgenstein, Berklee Press, Boston, MA, 2000.
The Art and Heart of Drum Circles [DVD]
Drum circles are one of the country’s fastest-growing health trends. That is because they are not only a great way to have fun, reduce stress, and meet people, but scientific research confirms that recreational drumming contributes to overall wellness, and workplace efficiency. In this unique DVD noted author, music therapist, and drum circle facilitator Christine Stevens takes you inside the drum circle phenomenon.
The Art and Heart of Drum Circles will show you basic techniques for hand drums and percussion, the eight most important cues for guiding drum circles, how to build a satisfying group experience, how drum circles touch lives, and the philosophy and research supporting recreational music making for health and wellness.
The Art and Heart of Drum Circles DVD, featuring Christine Stevens, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2005.
Praise & Worship Drumming: A Guide to Playing in Church
Praise & Worship Drumming is a unique book and CD package specifically for drummers interested in playing in a church or worship group setting. Percussionist and teacher Cary Nasatir wrote the clear and concise guide with beginning to intermediate drummers in mind, but it is also an excellent reference for nondrumming worship leaders, music directors, or ministers of music.
Covering a wide variety of musical styles, the book includes lessons on rhythmic fundamentals, drum kit anatomy, techniques, and more. A companion CD allows drummers to play along with many of the examples in the book.
Praise & Worship Drumming: A Guide to Playing in Church, by Cary Nasatir, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2005.
101 Drum Tips: Stuff All the Pros Know and Use
This valuable how-to guide presents insight that drummers of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying CD provide an easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: techniques, beats, fills, equipment, practicing, recording, performance, and much more.
Author Scott Schroedl begins with advice on warming up, practicing techniques such as watching yourself in a mirror, and caring for your drum set. Later he branches out by moving on to the bass drum spurs, hi-hat, adjusting the beater, dampeners, and more. Next tuning, timing, and technique are tackled. Schroedl ends by including sample grooves in various styles such as rock ‘n’ roll, swing, gospel, Motown, samba, and mambo.
Just one in a series of 101 Tips books, Hal Leonard also publishes 101 Keyboard Tips by Craig Weldon and 101 Bass Tips by Gary Willis.
101 Drum Tips: Stuff All the Pros Know and Use, by Scott Schroedl, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2003.
