- Free downloads of audio recordings of all the pieces in Andy Gleadhill's Percussion Buddies Book
- Professionally produced performances
Above you can play the audio tracks that accompany Andy Gleadhill’s Percussion Buddies Book and you can also download them. The recordings are of all the audio tracks in the book. We recommend that you listen to the tunes either through headphones or good quality speakers as laptop and small loudspeakers will struggle to reproduce the lower frequencies and may sound rather “tinny”.
The Percussion Buddies Book, written by educator and professional percussionist Andy Gleadhill, shows teachers how to enable every pupil to participate fully and meaningfully throughout each class instrumental lesson, even if there aren’t enough main instruments to go round. The Percussion Buddies approach makes music budgets go twice as far.
Copies of all of the associated audio tracks are listed above in the SoundCloud player. You can download the complete set as a .zip file.
You may also be interested in our World Percussion – Video Support – – please check out the following links:
World Percussion Class Packs – Short videos introducing each of the Drums for Schools Class Packs. These videos provide a useful overview of the options for schools or clubs looking to introduce World Percussion using a collaborative teaching and learning approach and which can be taught by any teacher, not just music specialists. There’s an introduction to Class Packs generally and to the Percussion Buddies approach plus a separate overview of each World Percussion pack.
World Percussion Instruments – Clips of Drums for Schools instruments. These should give you a good idea of what the instruments sound like (through headphones or good speakers) and of some of the different ways of playing them.
World Percussion How to Play – Short clips that introduce the instruments and show you some of the techniques for playing them.
World Percussion Workshops – Clips about Drums for Schools workshops for students.
World Percussion CPD Training – Clips about Drums for Schools CPD Training for both music teachers and non-specialists.