Features:

This book and accompanying audio show you how to play the frame drum using your fingers and hand surfaces. The method uses text, photographs, and the audio examples to demonstrate the various strokes and rhythms. Three ways of looking at rhythms are presented: Middle Eastern, Western and Balkan, with over 160 demonstrated rhythms.

Table of Contents:

• What is a Frame Drum?
• Playing Frame Drums
• A Note To Left-Handed Players
• Holding the Drum
• Thumb Stroke
• Notation
• Ring Finger Stroke
• More Notation
• Alternating Strokes
• Full Hand Stroke
• More Notation
• Stroke Combinations
• A Word of Encouragement
• Getting into Position
• Ring finger Stroke
• More Notation
• Multiple Strokes per Rectangle
• A Bit About Middle Eastern Rhythms
• Masmudi
• More Notation
• Representing the Absence of a Stroke
• Dum, Tek and Ka
• Names of Rhythms
• Beats and Measures
• Notes and Rests
• Quarter Notes and Quarter Rests
• Tempo
• Divisions of the Beat
• Syncopation
• Longer Rhythms
• Eight Measure Rhythm Patterns
• Syncopated Rhythms
• The mr Combination
• Tmr+, RMR+, and Fmr+ Combinations
• The Rl Combination
• The Rlr Combination
• The Rlr+ Combination
• the Rlmr Combination
• the UL Combination
• More on Syncopation
• Simutaneous Strokes
• Three Beats per Measure
• Odd Rhythms

Catalog:	MB30390BCD
Publisher:	Mel Bay
Composer:	Bill Woods
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Voicing:	Frame Drum
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Pages:	56