Beginning Steel Drum: Book, CD, & Poster
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0897249739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A complete method for learning to play lead steel drum. Perfect for individual study or classroom use, this method comes complete with an accompaniment CD and a full-size practice poster.. World-renowned steel drum artist Othello Molineaux has developed a concise method for the novice or experienced musician
Novice Beware! A Customer Unless you already know how to play a musical instrument (or at least know how to read music) this book will be of little value to you. Actually, it's not so much a book as it is a pamphlet. The only thing it accomplishes is that it shows you where the notes are on the pan.After a few introductory words, here is the 6th sentence in the "book":"The tuning consists of a circle of 5ths or 4ths, there are two circles of a complete octave and one circle of five notes. The range of the drum is from middle C up two octaves and a major third to E."If that quote doesn't mean anything to you, don't expect to really understand it after reading the pamp. Pretty disappointing Having bought a steel drum, I was all ready to learn how to play it and was excited to have found this book. But I have to agree with the other reviewer that it is pretty disappointing - I know how to read music and know a little about chords, etc., but this book was still not helpful to me. It had some info about playing chords that would be found in any music book, and the info on techniques was very slim - just a sentence or two, as the other reviewer said. The clips are songs you probably wouldn't want to play, and just short little parts of them at that. The author, who really is a great steel drum player, should've given us at least an. Mickey said Didn't work for me. I've been looking for a book that matches my steel drums; this one clearly doesn't. Because each drum is different, there really needs to be a distinction/clarification regarding what notes are in the songs. I don't have all of these notes so this really didn't help me much at all.