Mastering Finger Cymbals Book
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Book by Mary Ellen Donald.
Contains 11 lessons with numerous popular belly dance rhythms, suggested
dance steps, exercises to strengthen cymbal technique and basic music
theory.
(Spiral bound, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 75 pages, beautifully illustrated 1976)
Includes:
Basic music theory
Exercises to strengthen cymbal technique
Tips for co-ordinating dance steps and cymbal patterns
Popular belly dance rhythms, and
Guidelines for creating rhythmical variations
Two disc Companion CD sold separately.
Mary Ellen Donald has been involved in Middle Eastern music as a dance
student and a musician since the late 1960's. She is known by many as
the "Guru of finger cymbal playing." Mary Ellen studied dance with
Jamila Salimpour, drum and tambourine with Vince Delgado, Tony Lammam,
and various Arab drummers. She has written, produced and published
several books and tapes on Middle Eastern music. Since the 1970's she
has performed in numerous concerts, on albums including Magda Helmy,
Gallal Kutub, Yusel Mostafa, and Light Rain, and on the soundtrack
ABC-TV series, the Young Indiana Jones. Mary Ellen continues to be in
high demand as a musician, teacher, and organizer of events. Her
youthful vitality and highly developed sensitivity to music may be
partially attributed to her being legally blind. Excerpt from The
Caravan, Vol. 13, #6, May/June 1997
