ISBN 9781610652193. The Drum Set Styles Encyclopediais a non-comprehensive introduction to essential styles and time-feels for drummers. This book and online audio package is presented in an encyclopedia-like format and features over 50 must-know styles and time-feels. Each chapter presents a different style with helpful and informative background information, useful playing examples and specific recommended listening examples for each feel. The styles and time-feels include: Funk, Hip-Hop, Go-Go, Reggae, Blues, Latin, New Orleans, Texas Shuffle, Chicago Shuffle, Half-Time Shuffle and Odd Meter. This is a must-have resource for drummers of all levels; perfect for the aspiring freelancer or versatile-minded player. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781609742294. Practice for Performance provides a rare and intimate view into a very thoughtful and successful performer's personal toolkit. Set in the context of his own personal history of growth as a performer, cellist Daniel Morganstern (principal cellist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York) displays rare honesty in discussing the problems that faced him at various point of his career, and the ways to solve them. The discoveries sensibly unfold in a fascinating account of experiences with many notable artists whose comments and examples shaped the author's thinking. These ideas are not to be found in any other treatise on the subject of musical preparation. The examples in this book, both musical and non-musical, offer a foundation to help evoke instinctive musical responses in the mechanical processes of playing the cello, and have been advantageously applied to other instruments as well, including voice.