World Music Drumming – Teacher Edition | 20th Anniversary Book and DVD-ROM | Cross-Cultural Percussion Curriculum | Hal Leonard Music Education Resource

Love the lessons and how they're explained. Supplementary materials can be found online to enhance lessons. Another world drumming book I had didn't break things down into as many steps so was hard to follow, but this one is great at scaffolding and incorporating review into lessons to ensure a high success rate for students.

Best thing out there. This book may not be for everyone. If you seriously want to do World Drumming, and not just get some charts, this is the answer. Students love it- if you do it right, you can kick back and watch your students teach themselves.

This book is very well written by a person with a lot of knowledge on what he has a passion for. If you are into hand drumming and would like to organize such evebts, this is definetely for you. It has a lot of videos, which can be downloaded or viewed online, and comes with a great sanple song on a cd. Worth every penny that one pays for it.

This book contains short, authentic melodies from several regions of the world, with reasonably authentic percussion accompaniment parts. Each "complete song" is approximately one phrase -- approximately 4-8 Western measures -- long, with fully-layered percussion accompaniment parts but with no beginnings, middles or endings arranged; thus, any kind of presentation to an audience will require creative arranging by the teacher/group leader. The strength of the book is the authenticity of the vocal and percussive source material, while the weakness of the book is the (expected and unsurprising) loss of authentic cultural aesthetic intent when we represent non-Western music in Western notation (on a staff with a clef and notes and rests). Although the author has spent significant energy explaining authentic playing techniques for Western classical musicians, I maybe wouldn't recommend this book as a standalone ethnomusicological handbook. For situations in which a teacher or group facilitator who is experienced in African or Latin music and techniques is prepared to present the parts in a lively and largely rote manner to the participants, and flesh out their own intros and codas in a "village griot" kind of way, this collection will add valuable source material to the teacher/facilitator's song menu.

I will get a lot of use out of it- condition was true to listed description.

Every general music teacher needs this book! The arrangements are explained well and I will use this over and over!

Great book, great curriculum. I can't wait to test it out with my students.

Best price.

Muy bueno.