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Matt Bo Eder
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I found this in a used bookstore the other day. I had since lost my original copy decades ago that I bought new back in 1978. I remember it like it was yesterday - I was studying with a local teacher when I was 11, and he was taking me through Benjamin Podemski's Modern Snare Drum method book at the time (I hated it, and then hated it even more when I discovered ol' Ben was using his own type of "short hand" for writing the notation, that I never saw in anybody else's books or in the concert hall), but against my teachers' wishes, I bought this book and proceeded to take myself through it, learning how to play simple rock beats and learning how to read Carmine's stuff. The book even came with a 12x17 poster of Carmine, and a couple of those plastic sleeve records so you could hear the beats as Carmine played them.
On a technical level, it was probably groundbreaking since it was written not on the usual 5-line staff, but it's own notation utilizing three lines. I hadn't seen that up until this book (maybe I'm wrong?). And of course, it was a 'cool' book getting kids into that forbidden music called "rock n roll" (I understand Carmine wrote this book in the 60s - and it has paid many bills for him in the last 40 years!).
Lo and behold, I'm browsing this old book store and find this gem. It still had the poster, and it had one of the records. I don't have anything to play the records anyway. So i had to pick it up.
This book probably explains why I have a soft-spot in my heart for Thermagloss Maple, and probably all things Ludwig, but I certainly don't dig the ancient state-of-the-art hardware from the period! I'm sure plenty of you here have gone through this very book - what's your story?
(Of course, Gary Chester then releases "The New Breed" and that sent me back into the closet for many months - I still work on that stuff, and still suck at it).
On a technical level, it was probably groundbreaking since it was written not on the usual 5-line staff, but it's own notation utilizing three lines. I hadn't seen that up until this book (maybe I'm wrong?). And of course, it was a 'cool' book getting kids into that forbidden music called "rock n roll" (I understand Carmine wrote this book in the 60s - and it has paid many bills for him in the last 40 years!).
Lo and behold, I'm browsing this old book store and find this gem. It still had the poster, and it had one of the records. I don't have anything to play the records anyway. So i had to pick it up.
This book probably explains why I have a soft-spot in my heart for Thermagloss Maple, and probably all things Ludwig, but I certainly don't dig the ancient state-of-the-art hardware from the period! I'm sure plenty of you here have gone through this very book - what's your story?
(Of course, Gary Chester then releases "The New Breed" and that sent me back into the closet for many months - I still work on that stuff, and still suck at it).
