Essential Elements 2000 Percussion Book 1 Plus DVD and CD

Now the best-selling band method is even better! Book 1 Percussion for absolute beginners includes a start-up video and much, much more, all on CD-ROM.

Features:
- Same great Essential Elements 2000 method
- 15-minute video/super lesson; for learning the basics
- Play-along mp3* tracks for all 185 exercises (featuring a professional player on your instrument)
- Tempo Adjustment Software
- Duets and Trios, Music Listening Library
- SmartMusic® Software for Exercises 1-100 (for use on PC/Mac) - practice, record, and email a performance with on-screen assessment

*mp3 files will play on most current CD or DVD players

Authors: Tim Lautzenheiser, John Higgins, Charles Menghini, Paul Lavender, Tom C. Rhodes, Don Bierschenk

Customer Reviews:

Great book for beginners

By Pawel Mikoluk - September 30, 2008

The Essential Elements 2000 book, is a great book for anybody who wants to learn how to play any percussion insturment. I advise this book for everybody. It comes with a DVD which is very helpful and nice. The book contains a lot of captivating songs and I fully enjoy playing them.

Good First Book

By Julie - August 10, 2011

We bought this book because it is the one used by my child's fourth grade band program, and it seems well suited to that age and older. The book covers the beginning fundamentals for snare drum, bass drum and bells/xylophone. The snare and bass exercises comprise the first half of the book and are written together, on one staff. The bells exercises make up the second half of the book. Exercises are short, 1-2 lines of music, and fundamentals are explained clearly before each segment. Although this may be outside its scope, it would be fun for kids of this age if some of the music were simple versions of rock classics, instead of all folk songs and classical.

Essential Ellements 2000

By Melanie Berger - May 23, 2011

We thought this book would have more drum training than it does. It is all types of percussion. Otherwise, we have used the guitar Essential Elements books and liked it.