Contemporary Rudimental Studies and Solos - Snare Drum Method

Contemporary Rudimental Studies and Solos is a guide to learning and performing rudiments. It is my hope that this book will prove itself useful to students, percussion instructors, and music educators. Rudiments have long played an important part in the various forms of performance idioms which have been developed and maintained throughout history. The growth of the number of rudiments from our 26 Stadard Rudiments, to what is now a list of 40 Standard Rudiments, is evidence of increasing prominence and importance of rudiments in performance idioms. This increase of rudiments is due in large part to the efforts of great percussionists and the Percussive Arts Society to standardize and to catalog the rudiments currently available. The list continues to grow with the development of "hybrid" rudiments which have been presented through the advent of modern drum corps.