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The Bare Bones: Exercise #8

Exercise #8 uses the syllables "Baby Baby" for dotted sixteenth/thirty-second note rhythms. Welcome to the Bare Bones Reading Method for pipe band drummers. Pipe band drumming is a strange and wonderful style of drumming that requires both technical proficiency and feel to play correctly. There are five basic styles of pipe band drumming: simple march, round reel, jig, compound march and strathspey. Each style contains its own rhythms, feel, tempos and time signatures which must be mastered in order to call oneself a “pipe band drummer”. I have chosen to call my reading system "The Bare Bones" because I have stripped away any flams, drags, rolls, dynamics and complex sticking patterns leaving only the rhythms and simple "hand to hand" sticking--the "bare bones" of the music. I modelled The Bare Bones Reading Method after the Kodaly system of rhythm syllables (tah, ti-ti etc) which has been used by music educators to great success for decades. Using syllables decreases reliance on standard classical music theory and counting which simply does not apply to pipe band drumming in many cases. These syllables are not the only way to learn how to read rhythms, however, they are pretty silly, fun, and according to my students, incredibly effective. I hope you have fun with these syllables yourself and hopefully they will provide an accessible entry to the pipe band drumming world.