Welcome to the Snare Drum Lessons
portion of the Pearl Educational CD-ROM!

These lessons are designed to get you off to a great start! Here, you will learn the basics for gripping the sticks and producing the proper stroke, as well as some fundamentals on how to read music.

You may begin by selecting a topic below, or you can use the menu above to quickly jump through the available lessons and lesson topics.

I. Gripping the Sticks
II. Learning the Proper Stroke
III. Lesson One: Sticking Exercises/Musical Terms
IV. Lesson Two: Music Reading

These lessons were excerpted from Mark Wessels' book,
A Fresh Approach to the Snare Drum

If you like these lessons, we hope that you will consider purchasing a book and CD-ROM for yourself!

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Excerpted from "A Fresh Approach to the Snare Drum Instructional CD-ROM" • Copyright 2002 • Mark Wessels Publications