Title: Limitations
Product review: Mr. Appice's book has certainly been around for a long time has been used by many teachers (including myself). The biggest drawback of this book is the choice to layout the exercises in a format where each instrument has it's own line rather than using a traditional five line staff. The probelems are these:1) While the initial exercises are fairly easy to read, later in the book when the toms begin to be incorporated it actually becomes more confusing than traditional notation would be.2) The use of a non standard staff reinforces the notion that percussion instruments are not to be taken seriously, and that drummers don't really need to learn to read.3) Someone who begins in this book with no prior experience will have a hard time moving to other texts which do use traditional notation.4) Someone with previous experience and with properly taught reading skills tend to find the non-standard format annoying if not confusing.
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