In Your Hands: Essential Guide to Pipe Band Drumming

This complete drumming tutor starts at the beginning and builds to skills needed to be play with a competing pipe band. David Henderson and David Ross of D2 Percussion, the writers, have both played in Grade 1 pipe bands and with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The layout and photos are clear, and the book is packed with exercises, rudiments, scores, and more. This is a substantial book instructional book and valuable reference for pipe band drummers. Stage 1: In the Beginning Basic Technique and Notation Stage 2: Sticks in Hands  Exercises and Key Rudiments Stage 3: On a Roll   Buzzing and Rolling, Basic Scotland the Brave Stage 4: Triplets  Triplets, More Rolls, Highland Laddie Stage 5: Gracing  Embellishments, Flams, Drags, 3/4 Marches Stage 6: Massed Bands  Scotland the Brave, Rowan Tree, Compound Time, 6/8 March Stage 7: Phrasing   Accented Rolls, Single Stroke Exercises, Teribus, The Piper's Cave Stage 8: The M.A.P Set  Advanced Rudiments, Advanced Simple Time Exercises, 2/4 March Set Stage 9: Dance Tunes   Strathspey Idiom and Exercises, Reel Idiom and Exercises, Multiple Scores Stage 10: Favorites Highland Cathedral, Flower of Scotland, Amazing Grace, Drum Fanfare