Play and Teach Percussion: A College Method for Success in the Classroom

Steve Houghton
Linda Peterson

General Info

Year: 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: GIA Publications
Cost: Book Cost - $0.00   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Overview

This thin method book is a concise and comprehensive collection of material that can fit into a single semester. Including two DVDs with extended demonstrations on world percussion and the proper way to practice rudiments. It is interesting that the authors also include the drumset as an instrument, they use the terms like “sense of time” and “clearer sense of form”.

Reviews

Student Review

"This small book offers a small glimpse into percussion, but the contents provided are a valuable resource for hands on percussion teaching and playing. The Play and Teach Percussion book is a comprehensive guide to beginning to understand the world of percussion, and in a “less talk more action way”. This book would be appropriate to some young music classes or perhaps a group of beginning musicians in a studio." - Denver Ridgway

"This book introduces itself by tackling the importance of musicianship first. It then is followed by a well-planned semester synopsis and timeline. This book includes an accompanying CD-ROM that helps the student to learn through hearing and double-checking themselves. Each new instrument introduced has explanations on how to play the instruments, as well as hand-drawn examples and short etudes, each new section ends with a skills assessment. During some sections the book will ask that the student listen to different artists, or pieces, and answer them in-book. there are some etudes that call for a small ensemble, more specifically, in the Latin, and marching percussion sections of the book. At the end of this book, a list of resources are given that were included in the making of this book, as well as the PAS 40 rudiments. The book also gives a percussion instrument alternative list, so that if a school does not own the instruments, a similar-style instrument can be used. Suggested methods are listed at the end that go a little more in-depth in certain instruments, a stick and mallet choice guide, and a percussion manufacturers directory are listed at the very end." -Trevor Landreth; Emporia State University

Works for Percussion by this Author

Steve Houghton
Houghton, Steve. The Drumset Soloist. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1996.
Houghton, Steve; Tom Warrington. Essential Styles for the Drummer and Bassist, Book 1. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1990.
Houghton, Steve; Tom Warrington. Essential Styles for the Drummer and Bassist, Book 2. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1990.
Houghton, Steve; Linda Peterson. Play and Teach Percussion: A College Method for Success in the Classroom. Chicago, Illinois: GIA Publications, 2004.
Houghton, Steve. Studio and Big Band Drumming. Oskaloosa, Iowa: C.L. Barnhouse Co., 1985.
Houghton, Steve. Ultimate Drumset Reading Anthology for the Working Drummer. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1998.

Linda Peterson
Houghton, Steve; Linda Peterson. Play and Teach Percussion: A College Method for Success in the Classroom. Chicago, Illinois: GIA Publications, 2004.