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Charles "Charley" Wilcoxon was an American drum teacher and drum method book writer. He wrote several influential books on rudimental drumming that are still used by drum teachers today. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
During the 1960s, he started the Henry Adler Music Publishing Company. His books include How to Play Latin American Rhythm Instruments, Hand Development Techniques, and 4-Way Coordination: A Method Book for the Development of Complete Independence on the Drum Set. He also published instruction books by countless other authors.
Garwood Whaley (born November 21, 1942) is an American percussionist and founder of Meredith Music Publications. His method books, such as Audition Etudes for Snare Drum, Timpani, Keyboard Percussion and Multiple Percussion, have become standard audition repertoire for middle and high school percussionists.
Snare technique is the technique used to play a snare drum. It is studied as an end to itself by snare drummers, and as a way of developing stick control skill by kit drummers and players of other auxiliary percussion instruments. Snare drum is the first instrument that most percussionists learn to play.
The Moeller Method uses the whipping motion, described above, and applies it to the 4 basic strokes of drumming, the Full, Up, Down, and Tap strokes. [6] Using a combination of the basic strokes, in the whipping Moeller style it is possible to play extremely quickly with minimal effort, or to introduce a series of accents into a stream of notes with relative ease. [7]
George Lawrence Stone was born in 1886. He was the son of drum teacher and manufacturer George Burt Stone.George Lawrence learned drums and xylophone from his father and also helped out in his shop, where the elder Stone tucked drumheads, turned drumsticks, made wooden foot pedals and sold violins.