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Excerpt from Manual for Field Musics, 1935 Preface chapter I. - A History of Drummers, Buglers, and Fifers in the U. S. Marine Corps chapter II. - Rudiments of Music Definitions Position of notes on the staff Ledger notes Position of notes on the scale Beats Relative length of notes Dotted notes__ Relative length of rests Dotted rests Up beats Time signature Tempo Key signature Chromatic signs Miscellaneous signs Abbreviation of notes Abbreviation of measures Marks of expression chapter III. - Drums and Rudiments of Drumming Types of drums Parts of the drum_ Drum slings Care of the drum Tucking drum heads Tension of drum heads The snare drum_ how to hold the sticks Practicing on pads Rudiments for the snare drum The tenor drum How to hold the sticks Tenor drumming Key to tenor drum, Scotch bass drum, and cymbal music Exercises for the tenor drum The. Scotch bass drum How to hold the sticks Scotch bass drumming Key and exercises for Scotch bass drumming The standard bass drum Tucking and tension of bass drum heads Holding the stick Standard bass drumming Exercises for the bass drum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.