Reading Mallet Percussion Music For Four-Octave Marimba Third Edition

Reading Mallet Percussion Music is an excellent book, well-written and organized for easy comprehension. "Your two-mallet reading book is absolutely brilliant, and is now a required resource in my curriculum." -Kurt Gartner, Kansas State University. Since its first edition in 1993, Kite's method book has been used by thousands of percussionists to learn to read music and to improve their sight reading skills. 

Endorsed by numerous college percussion programs, Reading Mallet Percussion Music by Rebecca Kite provides a solid foundation in the scales, arpeggio, and melodic patterns necessary to get up to speed quickly.There is a special emphasis on developing speed reading techniques that gives each learner a fast track to reading fluency. Illustrations of the marimba keyboard with either a note or scale darkened so the student can identify them on the marimba they are playing are excellent and valuable to the beginning reader. The music, all of which is for a four-octave marimba, is clearly notated with excellent visual layout and printing.
The third edition includes thirty technical exercises for two mallets that prepare the student for performing the Classic Melodies in the last third of the book.