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Synopsis
What does arithmetic have to do with snare drum rudiments? What does mathematics have to do with rhythm? At a fundamental level, the answer to both questions is: everything. This book will explain it to you and then show you how to apply the knowledge creatively in your own performing and composing. Whether you are playing rudimental solos, orchestral excerpts, drum set grooves, multiple percussion pieces, or even keyboard repertoire, the ideas in Rudimental Arithmetic will expand your conceptual options and increase your technical fluency. Some of the areas covered in detail include sticking patterns and permutations, meter and grouping, partitions of numbers, and polyrhythms. The book also includes over thirty pages of exercises and eight very challenging solo etudes.
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About the Author
Bob Becker holds the degrees Bachelor of Music with Distinction and Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music where he studied percussion with William G. Street and John H. Beck and composition with Warren Benson and Aldo Provenzano. As an undergraduate he was also awarded the school s prestigious Performer s Certificate for his concerto performance with the Rochester Philharmonic. He later spent four years doing post-graduate study in the World Music program at Wesleyan University where he became intensely involved with the music cultures of North and South India, Africa and Indonesia. Becker co-founded the percussion group NEXUS, which gave its first concerts in 1971 and continues to perform around the world. The ensemble has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia, performing in chamber music venues as well as with symphony orchestras, and has recorded over twenty-five CDs. With NEXUS, he has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among many others, and has received the Toronto Arts Award and the Banff Centre for the Arts National Award. In 1999, the members of NEXUS were inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
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