Kirjahaku

Drummers from beginners to pros will relish this comprehensive guide to the tools of the trade! EThe Drum HandbookE gives you the in-depth knowledge you need to choose the whole range of gear including drums cymbals hardware heads and sticks a new used and vintage. Includes info on setting up tuning and maintenance plus tips from top pros on gear recording playing live and surviving on the road. Fully illustrated and authoritatively written this book includes a website directory and an exhaustive glossary of technical terms.

What's a life look like when the reader only gets to see the birthdays? The Birthday Scrolls is a memoir of Newcastle bohemian Geoff Nicholls' birthdays between the ages of 21 and 60. Pre-gentrification Newcastle, bands and parties mingle with visits to psychiatric wards, concerts in Sydney and, as the years go by, work at the Hunter Wetlands Centre, yoga, singing, uni. Geoff writes with humour and candour of his passions and foibles, but also of the peaks and troughs of birthdays, including those he winds up celebrating by himself. It's a brave and poignant set of recollections of a life lived at a tangent to the mainstream, that explores family, loneliness, friendship, and the transcendence to be found in art.