Category: Learn

Learn from master musician, percussionist, and educator Jack Bell.

  • Rimshots

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    Rimshots Interview Series The Rimshots interview series on Youtube includes an interview with Jack Bell. John Lawless, Joey Baggett, Emrah Kotan and Jack Bell. A little preview of what will be the essence of RIMSHOTS. Read more

  • Rudimental Swing Drumming

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    The Art of Percussion This style of rudimental swing drumming presented in this DVD bridges the gap between the old N.A.RD. traditional interpretation of the “26 Standard American Drum Rudiments” and the rudimental style used in today’s modern drum corps. Selections Read more

  • ASO Performances

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    Selected Recordings Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1967-1995) Jack Bell, Principal Percussionist Symphony #5, Mahler/Telarc 1995 Harry Janos, Kodaly/Telarc 1995 Dances of Galanta, Kodaly/Telarc 1995 The Bells, Rachmaninoff/Telarc 1995 Harmonium, John Adams/Telarc 1995 Javelin and Run, Torke/Decca 1995 Peter and the Wolf, Prokoviev/Telarc 1993 The Carnival of the Animals, Xylophone soloist, Saint-Saens/Telarc 1993 Great Opera Choruses/Telarc: 1993… Read more

  • Wilcoxen Solo 150

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  • The Pacer Demonstration

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  • Harold Firestone

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    Life Harold Edward Firestone was born October 27, 1907. He was adopted by Frank and Minerva Firestone. Frank worked as a pattern maker for the New York Central Railroad and Minerva was a housewife. Harold grew up in Elkhart, Indiana. Mr. Frank Firestone took his seventeen-year old son to the grand opening of the Lerner… Read more

  • Rolf Legbandt

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    Rolf Legbandt was born Aug. 26, 1930, in Chicago, Ill., to mother, Helene Dora Klara Herzner Legbandt, and father, Alfred Heinrich Legbandt. Mother Helene emigrated from Hamburg, Germany, and father Alfred emigrated from Kiel, Germany. Rolf graduated high school from Pasadena Junior College, Calif., in 1948 and in July joined the Marine Corps, hoping to… Read more

  • Learning to be Creative

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    Learning: to be Creative In the next few moments, I will try to rekindle you – by attempting to help you understand a little more about yourself and how to learn creatively. Had I studied the topics of Learning and Creativity extensively before presenting this lecture, you would be offered many sophisticated definitions and interpretations.… Read more

  • Eugene Rehm Interview

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    Unconventional Audition This post tells the long-awaited true facts about the audition of Gene Rehm – former principal timpanist and third percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Remarkably, it is told in the exact words of Gene – taken from an interview by Nick Jones of the ASO staff. I know you will find it… Read more

  • Mastery Through Accomplishment

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    The year was 1980 – many years ago. I was going through a tough time in my life. Tough times can feel incredibly overwhelming and exhausting. I was consoling myself by reading many books and assembling all the thoughts, as well as my own, into small red notebooks. After about a year, the notebooks were… Read more