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Phrasing with Diddles: A "Sticking" Dictionary

by Armando A. Capote

232 pages; Spiral coil; catalogue #08-0932; ISBN 1-4251-8359-X; US$28.91, C$28.91, EUR19.75, £14.93

This book's purpose is to give drummers-percusionists a complete series of rhythmic phrases, accompanied by their corresponding "hand sticking patterns". Ideal for solo and/or orchestrating drumming studies.

About the Book

Phrasing with Diddles: A “Sticking” Dictionary is a book divided in two main sections, each with 36 parts. The first gives more than 1.000 detailed accented example, with constant 16th notes fills and suggestions regarding hand movements using “diddles” (double hits with each hands), which the musician should attempt.

The second section repeats the phrases from the first section, extracting the accented notes, thus leaving only the 16th notes of the fills exposed. Each example from section 2 is like a photo negative of the same phrase from section 1.

I hope this book helps to show students a very effective technique, designed to enrich important aspects of the drummer's-percussionist´s development.

About the Author

Born in the Canary Islands, Armando holds a Film Scoring degree as well as a minor in Percussion from Berklee College of Music and a Master in Composition from New England Conservatory (Boston).

Aside from having written many works including music for theatre, ballet, television, documentaries, etc., he has published “La Batería Básica” and is the author of many other titles including games and other didactical material mainly for the younger drummers.

He now lives in Barcelona with his wife and daughter.

Armando Capote can be contacted at:

melthecatdrumbooks@gmail.com
or
mandicapote@gmail.com