Publisher: Mel Bay
Drumming Across 22 International Traditions
Level: Intermediate-Advanced


A compendium of drumming cultures and traditions from 22 distinct regions throughout Europe and the Americas, designed to expand rudimental knowledge and develop international percussive skills. Each of the rudimental systems on the Grand Tour is broken down with a short history, an explanation of the notation styles, rhythmic interpretation, musical excerpts for context, an online recorded example, and a list of sources for further study.

"Rudimental Grand Tour" incorporates over 600 years of history and hundreds of unique rudiments that are not found on the "Percussive Arts Society (PAS)" 40 list.

American fife and drum, Basler trommeln, Scottish pipe band, Mexican banda de guerra, Norwegian trommeslåtter, Swiss tambour-ordonnanz and sixteen more cultures are represented—both well-known and obscure.

The author includes definitive online recordings of examples of each of the twenty-two drumming traditions explored in the book.


Index:

• History
• An Example of Rudimental Variation
• Further Philosophical and Explanatory Notes
• The Basel System
• Basel – Arabi (19 Century)
• The Swiss System (Tambour-Ordonnanz)
• Swiss – General Marsch (1728)
• The French System
• French – La Retraite (Broutin)
• The Spanish System
• Spanish – Asamblea (Pablo)
• The Mexican System (Banda de Guerra)
• Mexican – Bando (Traditional)
• The German System (Prussian)
• German – Wecken (1906)
• The Austrian System
• Austrian – Allarm=Streich (1851)
• The Bavarian System
• Bavarian – Feldschritte II (Fröhlich
• The Dutch System
• Dutch – Taptoe (1861)
• The Italian System
• Italian – La Preghiera (1869)
• The Norwegian System (Trommeslåtter)
• Norwegian – Telleslåtten (Sundvor)
• The Russian System
• Russian – На молитву (Vasiliyev)
• The British System
• British – Dinner Call – The Roast Beef of Old England (1817)
• The Scotch System (Pipe Band)
• Scotch – Massed Bands (Traditional)
• The American System
• American – Neptune (Lusby)
• Sweden
• Mellanmarsch (Traditional)
• Denmark
• Fanetrop (18th Century)
• Belgium
• Rigodon (Traditional)
• Ivrea
• Generala (2020)
• The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
• Marcia Fucilieri (1846)
• Argentina
• Marcha Fúnebre (Mansilla)
• Colombia
• Bandera (1862)