Twenty Studies for Timpani by Jacques Delécluse (born 1933) is a set of twenty studies written for 2-5 Timpani and inspired by symphonic repertoire. Written for intermediate-level they require some technical knowledge. Twenty Studies for Timpani features some meter and multiple pitch changes and the studies are written with increasing difficulty. This set will definitely help to master a good technique on Timpani The author Jacques Delécluse is a soloist at the Paris Orchestra and a professor at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris. He has conceived a keyboard-percussioninstruments that held his name and is also the author of a series of seven books “À la manière de” for Drums and Piano.

With few study books exisiting for the Timpani Jacques Delécluse ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent Thirty Studies for Timpani. French percussionist and composer Delécluse studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the mid-1900s winning many prizes. The exercises in the first volume of Thirty Studies for Timpani are built on technical examples and problems intended for students who have just started learning the technicalities of the instrument. Rhythms are developed to ensure continuous progression. For all aspiring Timpani players Delécluse's ThirtyStudies is essential having been compiled by a master of the instrument himself.