Fantastic Hands Ebook

Fantastic Hands offers you many ways to achieve greater dexterity and control of the drum sticks and it will help any drummer playing in any style. It contains 515 carefully modulated exercises representing the root position and all of the inversions of the 5 different types of paradiddles (The Paradiddle Paradigm). It also shows 40 different ways (dexterity systems) to play all of these exercises—each one superimposed over and working with the paradiddle paradigm to push your control and dexterity farther. These systems cover the following aspects of snare drumming: Rolls (open and buzz), Flams, Drags, Paradiddles, Accents, Dead Strokes, Cheeses, Flammed Buzzes and combinations thereof. Each of these 40 different dexterity systems feels differently to your hands, giving you essentially a whole new set of exercises—this amounts to well over 20,000 exercises. It's like having 40 books in one! Also included are numerous suggestions on how to practice the patterns. Part Two of Fantastic Hands shows you creative ways to put different exercises from Part One together to spur on your creativity and help you with IDEA GENERATION for drum solos and fills—And they are FUN to play! for drum set players, we have added many foot under lays that can be applied to the patterns to help you with four limb fluency and coordination. At the end of this book is a special appendix of essential snare drum techniques to supplement the control and dexterity exercises of Part One and Part Two, that every serious drummer should work on to attain ultimate stick control and intuitive touch.

MY AMAZING HANDS HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS! I will tell you about . . . — some extraordinary people My Amazing Hands have met . . . Wayne Gretzky, Vince Gill, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Elliott, and 30 more! — extraordinary places they have been: I sat where Elvis sat in Fun In Acapulco; Naussau; New Orleans, & Mount St. Helens soon after eruption! — and some extraordinary occurrences . . . I got shot at while up the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France — while in the R.C.A.F., for example! My Amazing Hands . . . — have performed on television and on the radio and have been in two movies. One of them was a speaking part. The other starred Geena Davis! — have performed various acting roles in many live theatre performances — and have done both lighting and sound. — have been on the Front Page and elsewhere in newspapers. Have been on TV and performed on the radio. — have performed on the Casino Rama Entertainment Centre stage, and elsewhere to audiences of over 3,500 fans. — made three music CDs and recorded at RCA Studios. — played with a Mariachi Band in Mexico. My Amazing Hands also . . . — as Music Director at church, choses the hymns and leads the congregration. — have preached sermons when the pastor was unavailable. — are licensed to fly Cessna, Cherokee, Piper Cub, and Beechcraft aircraft. — have even piloted a huge glider. — are licensed to drive motorcycles of all sizes from 90cc up to and including Honda 1200cc Gold Wing! — were licensed to sell automobiles, trucks, boats, exotic vehicles etc. — were licensed as a coupier and Supervisor at Casino Rama for 10 years! — My Amazing Hands, played . . . SANTA CLAUS . . . in a mall! THESE 79 CHAPTERS CONTAIN A TOTAL OF OVER 180 ADVENTURES. And are organized by years of my life from 1942 (you GOTTA read it) to 2020.(and, yes, I’m now 81 and STILL going strong – singing and acting). I sincerely hope that you will enjoy the adventures of MY AMAZING HANDS!!! JAMES E. McCARTHY

This book is a combination of life happenings or Gods amazing handslittle things that cant be explained! Big things that are out of this world! Realization came that if I didnt write them down, they would be lost forever. That is how this book came to be! Hope you enjoy Gods Amazing Hands.

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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the history, language, holidays, festivals, customs, legends, foods, creative arts, lifestyles, and games of the title country. A creative alternative to student research reports and a time-saver for teachers since the activities and resource material are contained in one book.

This picture book teaches young readers all about their amazing hands! Featuring vibrant images and simple, repetitive words and phrases, students will be eager to learn all about the wonderful things their amazing hands can do.

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This book contains more than one hundred clever and unique art ideas using easy-to-find and inexpensive materials. Even though directions are given, there is no right or wrong way to do art activities. All projects are illustrated with examples of the finished work and are sure to inspire creativity in both you and your students!