A Collection of 18th and early 19th Century Drum Beatings
This book includes translations all of known English/American drum beatings (marches, quicksteps, and troops) from the late-18th century and early-19th century.
These resources include:
- Benjamin Clark’s MS (American, c. 1790)
- Issac Day’s MS (American, c. 1790)
- “Drummer’s Book of Music”, often referred to as the Gardner MS or Lovering MS (American, c. 1800)
- The Young Drummers Instructor (British, c. 1780)
- “Drum Beatings” MS (British, c. 1780)
- Charles Ashworth, A New, Useful and Complete System of Drum Beating (American, 1812)
- Charles Robbins, The Drum and Fife Instructor (American, 1812)
- Samuel Potter, The Art of Beating the Drum (British, 1815)
- Rumrille & Holton, The Drummer’s Instructor; or Marital Musician (American, 1817)
- Levi Lovering, The Drummers Assistant for the Art of Drumming (American, 1818)
- David Hazeltine, Instructor in Martial Music (American, 1817).
- Alva Robinson, Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick (American, 1820)
All interpretations are written in clean, modern notation.
The book is organized into 3 sections – Common Time, Triple Time, and Compound Time. Each section includes a brief history of the meter and tempo.
Each section is further broken down into types of music. For example, Compound Time is broken into Flam Accent based tunes, Double Drag beatings, and mixed beatings. These sub-sections include explanations of the style and exercises for major rudiments.
Further, each sub-section contains an explanation of this style’s “rules”. The rules are elaborated on each page of music to aid in the drummer’s ability to quickly breakdown and memorize the pieces.
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The Common Time March (Ashworth)
Table of Contents
Ashworth
Austrian
Common Time March
Duke of York’s Troop, for two drums
The Dutch
Grenadier’s March
Hessian
The Long March
Points of War
Quickstep No. 2
Retreat
Roast Beef
Singlings of the Troop, or Assembly
Slow March
Bruce & Emmet
Erin’s Green Shore, a lively retreat
Lamplighter, a lively retreat
Clark
A Retreat [Peggy Band]
American Volunteer
Baltimore
Barron de Stuben
Boston Rabil
Buttonhole
French Grenadier
Happy Lover
Irish Brigade
Johnson’s [Troop]
Loag in the Water
Massachusetts
Minerva
Moon and Seven Stars
Morilla
Mount Vernon
None of my House
Over the Hills and in the Valleys
Paddy Whack
Peacock
Road to Boston (On the Roads to Boston)
Scotch (Scots) Favorite
Success to the Campaign
Trim the Velvet
Untitled No. 1
Untitled No. 2
Untitled No. 3
Washington
White Cockade
Woodcutter
Day
Baltimore
Buttonhole
French Grenadier
General Howe’s March – untranslatable
Guilderoy, Logan Water
Highlander
Open Beat – untranslatable
Run, get your Gun (To Arms?)
Scotch (Scots) Favorite
White Cockade
“Drummer’s Book of Music”
A Retreat [Peggy Band]
Banester Ben
Buttonhole
Duncan’s Dance
First March – untranslatable
French Grenadier
Grand Turk’s March
Merry Ploughman
My Love She Is
None of my House
Peacock – version 2
Pennsylvania QS
QS of the 12th Regiment
Scotch (Scots) Favorite
Sh Long Troop
A Troop Short
Soldier’s Joy
Valley Forge
Washington’s March
White Cockade
Hazeltine
Baltimore
Common Time March
Cubie’s March
Double Drag
Duke’s March
Free Mason’s March
Hay Maker
Irish Brigade
Jefferson & Liberty
On the Way to the Field
Quick Time
Single Drag
Trip to Otaheite
Warren’s March
Lovering
Apprenticed Mason
Baltimore
Bridgeton March
Buttonhole
Duncan’s Dance
General’s Salute
Gilderoy
Girl I Left Behind
King William’s March
Merry Ploughman
My Love She Is
New Pomproom
None of My House
QS of the 12th Regiment
Rhode Island March
Scotch (Scots) Favorite
Soldier’s Return
To the Fields
Washington’s March
White Cockade
Woodcutter
Yankee Doodle
Potter
Easy Quickstep
Grenadier’s March
Points of War
Retreat
Roast Beef
Singlings of the Troop, or Assembly
Robbins
1st Method of Common Time
2nd Method of Common Time
3rd Method of Common Time
4th Method of Common Time
5th Method of Common Time
Double Drag
Single Drag
Robinson
1st Mode of Common Time
2nd Mode of Common Time
3rd Mode of Common Time
4th Mode of Common Time, or Quick Time
Baltimore
Cubie’s March
Double Drag
Free Mason’s March
General Salute
Hay Maker
Morelli’s Lesson
No. 13
On the Way to the Field
Peas Upon the Trencher
Roast Beef
Single Drag
Triple Time (Waltz)
Troop
Warren’s March
Rumrille & Holton
Austrian
Bonaparte’s March
Boston March
Champlain
Dog and Gun
Double Drag
Duke of York’s Troop, for two drums
The Dutch
French Grenadier
General Brown’s March
General Harrison’s Slow March
General Macomb’s Quick Step
General Scott’s March
Grenadier’s March
Hessian
Jack’s Quick Step
The Long March
Nancy Dawson
Ohio March
Open Beating No. 1
Open Beating No. 2
Open Beating No. 3
Open Beating No. 4
Open Beating No. 5
Pennsylvania QS
Points of War
Queenstown Heights
Quickstep No. 2
Retreat
Roast Beef
Roving Sailor
Singlings of the Troop, or Assembly
Tecumseh
United States March
Walpole QS
Yankee Doodle QS – 6/8
Yankee Doodle Quickstep (Single Drag)
Young Drummers Assistant
Points of War
Singlings of the Troop, or Assembly
Troop for the Colours
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