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THE POLAR EXPRESS

A complete and comprehensive Drum tutor designed to meet the needs of the young student aspiring to play in a school band or orchestra.

From how to stand correctly and hold the sticks/beaters, to rudiments such as rolls and flams, as well as syncopations. Book One concentrates largely upon the snare drum, with an emphasis on accuracy, counting and controlling time. Later lessons also introduce the bass drum and hand-held cymbals.

With no stone left unturned, this detailed and rigorous method provides everything you need to master the drums as a band/orchestral percussionist.

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Haskell W. Harr Drum Method, Book One (Haskell W. Harr)

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Now available with CD! This best-selling instruction book was developed to meet the needs of the young student aspiring to become a drummer in the school band or orchestra. Book 1 spans 52 lessons and includes rudiments, study of various time figures found in every day playing, care and maintenance of drums, and more. The detailed early lessons feature diagrams, explanations, photographs and illustrations, while the exercises in later lessons are presented with brief but helpful introductions.

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Haskell W. Harr Drum Method, Book One (Haskell W. Harr, Haskell W. Harr)

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"I feel that "misbegotten" well describes the fateful and melancholy predicament of the species homo sapiens at the present moment in time. Mankind has become ever more "illegitimate" in the natural world of the plants and animals. The ancient sense of brotherhood with all life-forms (so poignantly expressed in the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi) has gradually and relentlessly eroded, and consequently we find ourselves monarchs of a dying world. We share the fervent hope that humankind will embrace anew nature's "moral imperative".
My little "Idyll" was inspired by these thoughts. Flute and drum are, to me (perhaps by association with ancient ethnic musics), those instruments which most powerfully evoke the voice of nature. I have suggested that ideally (even if impractically) my "Idyll" should be "heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August."
"An Idyll for the Misbegotten" evokes the haunting theme of Claude Debussy's Syrinx (for solo flute, 1912). There is also a short quotation from the eighth century Chinese poet Ssu-K'ung Shu: The moon goes down. There are shivering birds and withering grasses"."

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An Idyll for the Misbegotten (Crumb George)