Page 1 INTRODUCTION Book eleven in the DRUM READER series deals with ties and syncopation in various time sig hatures.Like the previous ten books In this collection of studies the meter signs are 2/4, 314,414 ,5/4,6/4,7/4,follosed by moter signs in 3/8,5/8,6/8,7/2,9/8, and 12/8, Syncopation can be created either by rests or ties.You'll notice throughout thts work there are no rests.iiovever the effect of rests are created hy using ties.You play the note on the left side of the te and don't play the note on the right side or the end of the tled group of notes. Renenber though when there are ties,the notes that are not played have value because they are added to the note they are tied to.A half note tied to a quarter note would nov be valued for three quarter notes. Since you are noy reading book eleven in this series of studies you showld be quaite advanced as a reader.1 assume you understand the many variations of notations. .using ties dots,and the different note combinations Tt fs interesting that the note combiantlons take on a very strange design when you play these exercises.It is easier co sce the aotation with rests ay opposed to the tied comb inations It is interesting that the It {s inceresting that the note ¢ note corbi mb inations take on a different look with ties as opposed to fons when rests are used.Hovever in most jazz writing on drum charts the arr anger uses this effect with the ties more often that with rests.Thus you mist become accust= sued to this type manuscript. Notice that on the first page of music in book eleven thete is a one measure each measure..Get used to making these repeat moasures.DUN'T PRACTICE THE ING OVER THE REPEAT SBASURES. repeat after (TERIAL BY To the teacher this material offers an advanced level of reading that is needed in todays contemporary writings both in the jazz field as well as the classical music being performed. These studies can be used with mallet players,tinpant players as well as chose drummers using the drum set.You can write exercleses using these rhythm patterns. When your pupils reach the level of this material you know you have developed some excellent reading talent.I would suggest that the teacher also practice this material because {t can help keep your reading eyas sharp at all tines Review all the material in books one through ten before working with hook eleven in the DRUM READER series.T his ts the best method of controling these advanced studies. Copyright by Sam Clano 1978:A11 rights reserved: Sam Ulano the ori hor: International copyright secured:Published by £312 Nest 51st Street,Nav York,10019:AL1 material in the DRUM READER series is m Ulano and may not be reprinted without permission from theAut-PAGE 2 HOK TO PRACTICE BOOK ELEVEN IN THE DRUM READER SERIES? I-REVIEW ALL THE MWTEXTAL IN BOOK ONE THROU GIT! 2-COUNT OUT LOUD WHEN PLAYING THROLGE THE FOLLOWING PAd’s J-PLAY SLOWLY THE FIRST FEW TINES THROUI THIS SKK: 4=PLAY THE NOTE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE TIE AND DON'T PLAY TUE NOTE ON TRE REGHT SIDE OF THE ‘TIE: 5=PLAY EACH PAGE FOUR TIMES TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THF NVTERTAL S-GET USED JO THE HAND MANUSCRIPT SO YoU THE DEFFERIST SOUES. .QUARTERS AND EFGITHS T-COUNT 4/4 TIME AS FOLLOWS:1 A 289A GALA ZAIAS S-MAKE ALL REPEAT YEASURES SO FAC LINE OF §USIC COMES OUE TO FOLK EVEN SEASERES: 9-DON'T BEAT YOUR P TIME IN YOUR SIND AS YOU CUNT ovr Lory: LO-COUNT 3/4 TIME 14 2A 3A FUR EACH MEASURE LI-COUNT 2/4 TIME 14 2 4 FOR EACH MEASUK! 12-COUNT 5/4 TIE LAZAZAS FOR EACH YPASURE# IB-COUNT 6/4 TIME 1A 2 AGA 4 Kor T AQAA 1A 2A 45 FoR EACH MEASURE: A4COUNT 7/4 TIME LA ZAZA ATA POR EACH SEASURE: 15-BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ADVANCED READER DON"F CAKE THESE L6-THE YDRE TIMES YOU REVIEW s! ADVANCED MATERIAL. 17=PLAY HARD:STRONG:USE SETAL DAUM STICKS:SNITCH OVER 11 YHEX MODUEX PRACTICE STICK: L8-READ BOOK ELEVEN ON YOUR DROM PAD THE FIRST FRY TIME THAOY'GH, THEN PLAY THESE STUDIES ON YOUR SNARE DRUM:TUNE YOUR SNARE DREN TLGIT AND USE A BMANCTD VOMDEN STICK ON YOUR SNARE IQ-NOTICE THAT SOME OF THE ROUPS OF NOLES ARE SOT GRITTEN IX TIE ORDINARY PASHTON:THEY WILL TRICK YOUR EYES:LOOK AT WHAT YoU aki PLAYING: 2O-AFTER YOU HAVE MASTERED THIS MVTERIAI. TX G/4 TRY TO PLAY 17 1 CUT TLYR FOR FASTER READING: SIUILES FOS GRANTED: N BOOKS THE FASTER YOU WITL EE 0 Re: p THIS These rules are flexible.If you knew sou can read this apte vomhinitions Cry to develop a mis~ ical concept when practicing these staxlivs: ALWAYS REVIEW THE FIRST TEN BOOKS EAH AY IN YOUR PRACTICE ROCYLWE.THES WiLL Cake you about two to three solid hours of reading practice:Ronember the material in che ORUY READER series 1s a systematic development of reading and can help you improve vour reading abilities: IE you are using this material in your coaching explain to your students chat revieeing is the key to developing your reading eye:Play along with your students:Don't hop and skip around in these DRUM READER studics.Keep the materia! in an oraanteed olan. This way your students WIL progress weok to week: Once you have developed these exercises you can now start co read book eleven from back to front:This method will help you cover all the pages in book eleven Practice the sane time every day:Practice the same way every day:Practtee for control and allay your eyes to move a measure ahead :Eventually you will be able to move two or more measures ahead:SIMILAR TO A TYPEWRITER YDVING AHEAD,LETTER TO LETTER: PLAN YOUR PRACTICE TL¥E SO YOU READ FIRST AND THEN DEVELOP Yor'e HAND TECHNTQUE:DON'T SPEND YOUR PRACTICE TINE TO WORK ONLY ON YOUR WAND TECIINIQUE:STAY ORCANIZED AT ALL TEMPS:DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE INTERUPTED WIN YOU PRACTICE EACH DAY:- ppt tS Py hy PP fy, path fash ity Pty t+ ae ity pha Aor foayh Ab, vis OFynfrern, pA. s wh £0) y is gf) PyrAnsh, PPA LT ye tly Ese fynty POP hy hy PAPA Ey ta hy, jared \—_f we J-ALy - Py PPSae fy = )o3 we LS utes non = a fps sino vent oh ot A- pat —toh— AA fpf " iA) Ay, = en FPLm mh fimo, pF yy ST SID OM | _ ATL eee SFU TUT a AIDREOREADI_ . ot UTE ySVUUnM, - ny He oo ra oe : va RD MS nes eee mms : | [ ! ; a : Ny : = nero ey pe v BRR = ‘ Bn aR ro eepPek Pb beh, BUA AU Ay ppd sty _ EURINTUMH | Pe hn im pmo mA eine aut 7 7 Fu ts sy i CALE, \ SLALAU,,3L° ‘2pfes SLs Sy LOELhs, - Sarre? fata = spn f Kh Baht ph TTR, ARR OH UF) Ur fmm ancl TRADEPage 9 DEVELOPING YOUR READING 1N 3/8,5/8,6/8,7/8,9/ and 12/8 ‘TES: SIGIATCRES In my many years of teaching T have found most drum students «nd many professtonals very weak in their control of reading in time signatures where the eighth note gets the beat I guess this 1s because most of us have been brought up in our early days in reading cime Signatures where the quarter note gets the heat:2/4,,3/4, 44/4, 5/44,5/4, 57/4,,Those secm to be the easiest for most percussion players because this is where we all start to learn to read. It is easy to develop reading in these time signs because when we start with 4/4 tine,as ost instruction books dove can wraduate to $/4 ox b/d or 7/4 or even 9/4 and 12/4 tine Tt is easier to go darn to 3/4 or 2/4 From che 4/4 time sign because all you have to do is count the shorter measures..3/4 ix one beat less than 4/4..2/4 is twa beats tess than 4/4 time. Thus this is easy to do. Since our early days of reading is developed around the quarter qote beat tine signatures, when we yet introduced to the tine signacures where the eighth note receives the beat it Bets confusing. I think the problem lies in the fact that most of us don't really understand what the word BEAT means..A BEAT 1S THE MEASUREMENT OP SOUND. .A BEAT STARTS ON ONE HUMBER COUNT AND ENDS UP WHEN WE START THE NEXT NUMBER COUNT: Thus the count of ONE starts the first beat in the Measure and the count of TKO starts the second beat in the measure and the count of teo also the end of the first beat.-RIGH ON THY, COUNT OF THO Wh END THE FIRST SEAT AND START SECOND BEAT: When the quarter note Is divided into two parts the aunber count of one starts the beat. .the AN count is the half way mark of tho first beat and the count of INO starts and alo ends the beat. When we read the time signatures where the eighth note gets the beat the same thing happens. ONLY THIS TIME WE ARE DIVIDING AN EIGHTH NOTE INTO TWO PARTS.HicH ETGHTH NOTE GETS A BEAT AS IN 3/8 TIME.The sound of 3/8 is the same sound of 3/4 hvever in 3/8 time the edghth note is the beat and in 3/4 time the quarter note is the beat:T know this has confused many players but alt you need do is think of the eighth note as the beat in the tine signatures where the eighth note is the beat: 3/8 has three eighth notes in a measures5/8 has five eighth notes ina measure: 6/8 has six eighth notes in a measure; 7/8 has seven eighth nots In cach measure; 9/8 has nine eighths in each measure; and 12/8 has twelve eighth notes in each measure:Nay we are using the cighth Rote as the Full form of the heat..THE FIGITH NOTE EN the signatures where clghth get tho beat are divided into evo parts:How ever the eighth note in the tine signatures where there ave quarter notes getting the beat,as in 4/4 Cime,the eighth note now only receives one half of a beat: I suggest you read as much material as possible where the eighth note gets the beat and train your mind to ehink of the eighth note as the beat and this is the measurment of the tine.DON'T THINK OF EIGITH NOTES AS THEY ARE WHERE THE QUARTER NOTE GETS THE BEAT. REMEMBER AN ELGHTH NOTE TS ONLY ONE HALF OF A QUARTER NOTE IN 4/4 TIME AND THIS IS ONLY HALE OF \ BEAT. THE BEAT IS THE AMMUNT OF TLYE LT TAKES TO CET FROM ONE NUMBER COUNT TO THE NEXT NUMBER COUNT: REVIEW ALL TRE NATE: S1AL S BOOKS ONE THROUGI TEN MHERE THERE IS ETGUTH NOTE TEX SE@uaTU“Uf ah A Dh 73, PCR LTRS SESSA TNS¢Page 16 CLOSING OF BOOK ELEVEN OF THE DRUM READER SERTES: T kno you must have found this material quite difficult hovever constant review will give you the needed training to understand the syacopated notations in this work. ‘Try to follay some of these rules to improve the work in book eleven of the DRUM READER series: ALWAYS REVIEW THE FIRST TEN BOOKS LN THE DRUM READER SERIES BEFORE YOU TACKLE THE MATERIAL TW ROOK ELEVEN:This to me is the key to understanding and being ale to execute these studies. TF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH THIS M\TERIAL TAKE A RED PENCTI AND MARK OUT THE NOTES AT THE END OF THE TIES..THIS WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS NOTE 1S NOT PLAYED. .COUNTED. . BUT NOT PLAYED: RENEMBER THAT TIES ARE USED TO EXTEND SOUND WHERE THE DRUSGER AND MELODY PLAYER TS CON- CERNED. It is one of the methods of playing as many beats as vou need to play as a supoort behind other sections in the archestra.Ten heats, twenty or no matter hay many you need. The tie allows you to extend your sound.Either rolling on a snare dru ton tom or a cymbal. Try this method of review Play the first two pages of book onc through eleven: Then play the first throe pages fronbook one through eleven: Then follow this by playing the firse four pages through each book and thon follay this by Playing the first five pages:Untill you have gone through each book;This nethod of review can help you understand the studies in cach of the first cleven books in che DRUM READER series: Play each book once on the drum pad with metal sticks:Then play each book once on your snare drum with either a 28 stick or the weight stick you actually use when playing behind your drums:This is good training and will help you control your snare drum: Play book one with metal sticks on a pad:Play book evo on a pad with wooden sticks:Play book three on pad with metal scicks:Play book four on pad with wooden sticks:Play book five with metal sticks:Play book six with wonden sticks:Play book seven with metal sticks;Play book eight with wooden sticks:Play book nine with metal sticks:Play book ten with wooden sticks: Play book eleven with metal sticks:Tais method of alternating book to book with metal sticks and then wooden sticks is good technique training and also good reading development: Play book one as slo as possible:Play book two slightly faster than book one:Play book three slight faster than book to:Play book four slightly faster chan book three:Play book five fast= er than book four:Play book six faster than book five:Play book seven faster than book six: Play book eight faster than book seven:PLay book nine faster than book eight :PL faster than book nine:Play book eleven faster than book ten: ¥y book ten This method of increasing the tenpo of each book will help your reading eye: PLAY VERY HARD WHEN USING THE YETAL STICKS:Play easier when using the wooden sticks: Always review starting wEth book one:Neyer start with number six and then go back to three and then junp to nurber eight and back to nurber tro.This hop-skip method can't help your reading eye:Reyiay each book,one after another day after day: COUNT OUT LOUD AT ALL TIMES:L00K AT WHAT YOU ARE PLAYING:UNDERSTAND EACH BOOK BEFORE PRO- (RESSING TO THE FOLLOWING BOOK: