In Your Hands: Essential Guide to Pipe Band Drumming

This complete drumming tutor starts at the beginning and builds to skills needed to be play with a competing pipe band. David Henderson and David Ross of D2 Percussion, the writers, have both played in Grade 1 pipe bands and with the Red Hot Chili Pipers. The layout and photos are clear, and the book is packed with exercises, rudiments, scores, and more. This is a substantial book instructional book and valuable reference for pipe band drummers.

Stage 1: In the Beginning
Basic Technique and Notation

Stage 2: Sticks in Hands
Exercises and Key Rudiments

Stage 3: On a Roll
Buzzing and Rolling, Basic Scotland the Brave

Stage 4: Triplets
Triplets, More Rolls, Highland Laddie

Stage 5: Gracing
Embellishments, Flams, Drags, 3/4 Marches

Stage 6: Massed Bands
Scotland the Brave, Rowan Tree, Compound Time, 6/8 March

Stage 7: Phrasing
Accented Rolls, Single Stroke Exercises, Teribus, The Piper’s Cave

Stage 8: The M.A.P Set
Advanced Rudiments, Advanced Simple Time Exercises, 2/4 March Set

Stage 9: Dance Tunes
Strathspey Idiom and Exercises, Reel Idiom and Exercises, Multiple Scores

Stage 10: Favorites
Highland Cathedral, Flower of Scotland, Amazing Grace, Drum Fanfare