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Daniel Bédard presents a challenging and fun collection of contemporary snare drum solos for all styles of drummers. Prepared under the supervision of late Wizdom Media founder Dom Famularo, the book addresses all the various aspects of musical control for the snare drummer and drum set player. In these 20 snare drum solos, you’ll find many varied themes, including rudimental playing; triplet-oriented pieces; paradiddle-oriented solos; 3/4, 5/4, and 7/8 time signatures; single-stroke studies; slow and fast solos; roll-oriented solos; rhythmic combinations; solos with rests; and much more. Most of the solos are built around 4- or 8-bar phrases so that you can only focus on a small chunk of information if needed.

The Code of Movement: Developing Accent Freedom with Paradiddles, by Guy Gelso (Zebra) with Dom Famularo, is about understanding the movement of the sticks and the position they should be in for the most fluid performance to allow your drumming to be more efficient, using the least amount of energy for maximum results. At the same time, the book gives you the ability to execute accents anywhere in the flow of the most common paradiddle stickings, giving you freedom of expression in any style of music.

Accenting the Weaker Side is focused on developing control, strength, and facility with the weaker hand and foot for drum set playing. Conceived as a follow-up book to The Weaker Side (Dom Famularo and Stephane Chamberland) and Accents and Rebounds (George Lawrence Stone), Accenting the Weaker Side provides an intensive one-year program to build strength with the weaker hand/foot. All great drummers have one thing in common: they play relaxed with both hands and feet. The predecessor to this book, The Weaker Side, is about developing your weaker hand and foot to give you more balance and control. Accenting the Weaker Side adds another level of dimension of movement that will challenge you and test your level of control. The accents in the book are played following the code of movements presented in Accents and Rebounds. Designed to be played first on pad or snare, the rhythms can also be orchestrated around the drums.