The complete idiot's guide to playing percussion
By: by Michael Miller
Publisher: Alpha
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781592579297
Other titles: Complete idiot's guide; Playing percussion
Notes: CD includes examples of 57 different instruments being played, and the composition, Into the west, by Michael Miller. The score is included in the book (p. [223]-228).

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to the world of percussion. A quick tour of the percussion family ; A quick guide to percussion notation; title: The world of concert percussion. Drums ; Timpani ; Cymbals and gongs ; Mallets, bells, and chimes ; Auxiliary percussion; title: The world marching percussion. Marching drums and cymbals ; Marching bells and mallets; title: The world of popular percussion. Drum set ; Drum circle drums and percussion; title: The world of ethnic percussion. Latin percussion ; African percussion ; Middle Eastern percussion ; Indian percussion ; Asian and Indonesian percussion; title: Appendixes.