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I remember playing for this book in high school and it was SO HARD. Little did I know, this was a college level book and my band director prepared me well!This is a nice book if you already has good techniques to play with mallets. It has a lot of lessons about different kind of music. But if you are a novice and does not has notion of techniques then you might get some difficulties reading the lessons. But if you already play, it is a nice book to improve your techniques with a lot of different practices.Enjoy.I bought this for my son who is entering high school next year. He is a percussionist in the middle school band and plans to play xylophone in the high school band. After looking through the book he thinks that it is way more than he will ever need for high school level, more of a professional level. However, I feel it can't hurt to encourage him to go beyond the minimum requirements that the high school band will require.Goodmallet players looking for a good challenge and/or good workouts will really benifit from this book. it is not easy, but it is well thought out and will make a huge impact on your playing. the ending solos are great fun. There is even a Bach concierto which is quite the challenge. buy it!Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art音大受験の課題曲などにもこの本から出されている曲が多く、受験を考えている方にはピッタリだと思います！ 初歩の基礎練習曲からバッハの曲までいろいろな曲があるので長く使えてとても良い教則本です。
