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Hi there guys'n'gals!

Not having gone the traditional way myself, thus not really having a library of these things, I have found the school I work at to have a serious lack in drum materials of all kinds. I feel I have enough material for the general drumset and independence stuff, but I need some material to get my students a bit more connected the heart of their drumset.

So I'm looking for everyone's favourite books on snaredrum studies at all levels.

I have "Portraits in Rhythm" by Anthony Cirone and "Modern School For Snare Drum" by Morris Goldenberg. Great books, but they progress a little too fast for teaching.

Is there a good step by step book or a series that could be a good supplement for my students' folders and drumset books?

Thanks

Odd-Arne

The Vic Firth series is the way to go IMO for beginners on snare drum.
I learned with them and haved used them in my teaching for 18 years.
They're mandatory in college around here.



Next step would be Charley Wilcoxon's "Modern rudimental swing solos".
(Forget the "swing" in the title, it's only classic rudimental stuff).
There's a good progression suggested for this book in Kim Plainfield's "Advanced Concepts".

Guess it depends on the level of the student. I haven't worked with beginners in awhile so I'm not sure what all is new that is available for them. There's the classics, several mentioned already.
Rudimental CookBook by Ed Freytag is a great progressive snare solo book, it goes from REALLY easy to extremely advanced.

You really can't beat StickControl for well, stick control.

There's a few newer snare solo books out, one by ProMark, VicFirth has one. There's Mark Wessell's (spell?) 'Fresh Approach'. Jeff Queen's stuff as well.

Others you might want to check out are Rudimental Logic by Bill Bachman, The Drummers Rudimental Reference Book by John Wooton, Fresh Perspectives by Jim Casella

Joel Rotham has some great books for beginners as well. Snare texts, reading, etc

I usually hand pick solos for students to learn based on their weakness's, something that's heavy on flams, diddles, etc..

Thanks so far guys. I'll just get them all.

I know I always repeat myself over this, but as a complementary book I'd throw in Gary Chaffee's Sticking Patterns book. You can always use it gradually in addition to what your students are doing so they get strong and clean accent articulation.

Gary's book is also good for coming up with licks.

Roy Burns Elementary Drum Method is a great book for beginning drummers. Progressive Studies for the Snare Drum Books 1,2,3 by C.E.Gardner are also very good for developing snare chops and reading.

Matus wrote:I know I always repeat myself over this, but as a complementary book I'd throw in Gary Chaffee's Sticking Patterns book. You can always use it gradually in addition to what your students are doing so they get strong and clean accent articulation.

+Gazillion

Chaffee's Pattern Series books are phenomenal, untouchable in many regards.

The polyrhythm /modulation books is absurd, I've met few people who have played through it's entirety.

I start my students out on the Vic Firth snare books, then progress to Charley Wilcoxon's 150 Rudimental Solos. The Wilcoxon goes at a nice easy pace.

Mike

I start my beginners with the Alfred Snare Drum Method Bk 1 & 2, onto Wilcoxon or Pratt's 14 Modern Contest Solo's. Most by this time are also doing set work.