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John Bergamo-Frembe Frembe(1997), For 2 frame drums and 2 Djembes. Score and parts. Price: $25.00


	Evelyn Glennie&Paul Cameron-Beat It!; Group Percussion for Beginners-African Dances Beat it!-African Dances is a great resource for both general and more specialized music teachers working with beginer percussion groups. Presenting 16 contrasting workshops based on four African dances, it provides invaluable material built on the National Curriculum requirements in music for year 4 and up.The pack provides everything you need for group work: a CD with full performances of each work, printed melody lines for the pieces, piano parts and guitar chord symbols, how to play the instruments, and more. Faber Music Ltd. 50 pages. LIST PRICE: $25.95. OUR PRICE: $23.99. Price: $23.99


C.A.Grosso-Hand Drumming Ensembles; Rhythm Chants for Group Performance This book contains 12 compositions for group performance. These compositions are written at a variety of levels and can be learned by young musicians and students with no previous musical training, and also by more advanced students. Alfred Publishing. 55 pages. Price: $7.95


	C.A.Grosso-Hand Drumming Essentials; The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance(Book Only) If you want to put together a hand drumming ensemble, this is a great guide to how to do it. Includes an introduction to hand drumming, performance techniques, accessory percussion, rehearsal organization, compositions for performance, and much more. A supplemental volume, Hand Drumming Ensembles, is also available, and contain 12 complete compositions for ensemble performance. Alfred Publishing. 55 pages. NOTE: Also available as a book and CD set. Price: $9.95


C.A.Grosso-Hand Drumming Essentials; The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance(Book&CD) If you want to put together a hand drumming ensemble, this is a great guide to how to do it. Includes an introduction to hand drumming, performance techniques, accessory percussion, rehearsal organization, compositions for performance, and much more. A supplemental volume, Hand Drumming Ensembles, is also available, and contain 12 complete compositions for ensemble performance. Includes CD with performances of compositions. Alfred Publishing. 55 pages.NOTE: Also available as a book without the CD. Price: $19.95


	Maria Martinez & Ed Roscetti-World Beat Rhythms: Brazil The compositions and rhythms in this book are influenced by the popular Samba, Olodum, and baiao styles of Brazil. The CD included contains demonstration and play along tracks that can be used when learning abd practicing the examples. Play along with a 30 piece percussion ensemble with drumset and bass. This book can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by music educators for private or group instruction. Included in the book are photos of each instrument, instruction on techniques used to play each instrument, percussion scores, rhythm indexes played at different tempos, worksheets, percussion breaks, charts, and audio examples of each rhythm demonstrated on their respective instruments. If you want to start your own Batucada ensemble, then this book would be a good place to start. Hal Leonard. Price: $16.95


N. Scott Robinson-Bear Talk Interesting recital duo for 2 pandeiro(Brazilian tambourines). This piece utilizes the turning playing style of samba and the lifting playing style of capoeira, with interlocking rhythms in 2, 9, and 5 beat groupings. Excellent recital piece. A recording of this piece is featured on N. Scott Robinson's new CD "Things That Happen Fast". Score with CD. Duration:3-4 minutes. Level: Intermediate-Advanced -advanced high school/college. HoneyRock Price: $14.95


	N.Scott Robinson-Global Positions "Global Positions" was commissioned and premiered by Robert E. Parks, Jr. in Kentucky in 2004. It is a solo for the Azerbaijani tambourine called ghavel. This piece makes use of modern cross-cultural frame drum techniques, European, Oriental, and knee playing positions, snapping, South Indian techniques, cross-rhythms, indepdence, and shaking. Duration:4-5 Minutes. Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Score. Price: $10.00


N. Scott Robinson-Handful Attention getting solo piece for the bendir with foot maraca part. In 3 beats with passages for virtuoso extended technique. This piece uses multiple simultaneous layers of 3 beat rhythm cycles (3/2, 3/4, and 2:3), fast Indian subdivisions, and a section in Brazilian samba feel. A recording of this piece is featured on N. Scott Robinson's new CD "Things That Happen Fast". Score, solo for bendir (Moroccan buzzing frame drum) & foot maraca and CD. Duration: 3-5 minutes. Level: Advanced high school/college. HoneyRock Price: $12.95


	N. Scott Robinson-Il Mano A unique and exciting solo scored for tamburello(southern Italian tambourine). To perform this solo the player should be familiar with or be developing standard riq techniques ("Soft position", shaking and playing on jingles) and kanjira techniques as well as hand drum techniques specific to the area of Italy(extensive notes which are included address these particular performance techniques). A challenging piece in 7 beats at a fast tempo, performers will engage audiences with a multitude of expressive tambourine techniques including pitch bending, triple strokes, fast Indian fingerings, playing on the jingles, spinning the jingles, and different types of shaking. Score and CD. Duration: 2:20. Adv. high school.college. Honey Rock Publishers. Price: $12.95


N. Scott Robinson-Interior Design Ensemble piece for frame drums (15" tar & 20" bodhran) & solkattu (can be performed with 2,4,6, or 8 players). This piece makes use of South Indian rhythmic phrasing and syllables, which are chanted as an intro before playing various sections of frame drum phrases. Score & 2 parts. New World View Music. Price: $20.00


	N.Scott Robinson-Mirage Exciting recital piece! A duo for the Riq(Arabic tambourine) that involves different grips and playing positions with shaking, soft position, jingle strokes, and interlocking rhythms. Great way to end a concert! A recording of this piece is featured on N. Scott Robinson's new CD "Things That Happen Fast". Score, duo for Riq, with CD. Duration: 5-6- minutes. Level: Beginner/intermediate/ high school/college. Honeyrock Publications. Price: $14.95


N. Scott Robinson-Orisha Offering This piece can be performed by 3 (or 6 by doubling each part) conga players(quinto, conga, and tumba). This piece is in a Steve Reich minimalist style and features a unique technique throughout-1 brush in 1 hand with 1 hand bare. Rhythmic phrasesin 9, 11, and 8 beats interlock to form catchy melodies. Fascinating piece! This piece was commissioned by James Campbell and premiered by the University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble at PASIC 2004. Duration: 7-8 minutes. Level: Intermediate to advanced. Score and 3 parts. Price: $18.00


	N. Scott Robinson-Shaken, Not Stirred Exciting recital piece! A solo for the Riq( Arabic tambourine) that involves different grips and playing positions with shaking, soft position, jingle strokes, tricky cross-rhythms. Great way to end a concert! A recording of this piece is featured on N. Scott Robinson's new CD "Things That Happen Fast." Score, Solo for Riq (Arabic Tambourine), with CD. Duration: 3-4 minutes. Level: Advanced high school/college. HoneyRock Publications. Price: $12.95


N. Scott Robinson-Trio for Ogun This piece can be performed by 3 conga players(quinto, conga, and tumba), or as a double trio with the addition of 3 trumpet players. This piece is in a Steve Reich minimalist style and has sections for stick and hand and hands only for the conga parts. Rhythmic phrases in 6 and 8 beats with tricky trumpet rhythmic counter-melodies. The drum parts interlock to form a catchy melody. Fascinating piece! A recording of this piece is featured on N. Scott Robinson's new CD "Things That Happen Fast". Score and 6 parts for 3 congas or double-trio for 3 congas and 3 trumpets. Duration: 7-8 minutes Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Price: $20.00


	N. Scott Robinson-Well in Hand Solo for kanjira ( South Indian tambourine). This piece makes use of South Indian rhythmic material such as reduction korvais and other types of phrasing. A great way to develop real kanjira technique! A study score is also included with talam markings and syllables written indicating which types of strokes are used. Score & Study Score. New World View Music. Price: $12.95