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A collection of 78 tunes containing some Civil War selections as well as many other traditional favorites. Each arrangement features harmony, style marks and guitar chords. The music is supplemented with histories of the tunes and drumbeats. Complete Music for Fife and Drum was compiled by a professional fifer and is intended for the military fife in B-flat. This book offers tunes from the Revolutionary and Civil War eras with suggested snare and bass drum parts as well as chord progressions. It also contains a wealth of fife history and resources
About the Author
Walter D. Sweet is a native Connecticut fifer with 32 years' experience. He has taught fifing on all levels, and plays other instruments as well. With Yankee ingenuity, he also designs instruments: The "Waltfife" features a Boehm-style bore for traditional easy with added robustness; his Boehm flute in F above C matches the range of the fiddle for playing dance music. Sweet also works as a technical writer for Jagenberg in Enfield, Connecticut.
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