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Nathan Petitpas is a percussionist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He works predominantly as a freelancer in the Ontario orchestral scene as well as the Toronto contemporary music scene. He teaches drum set, percussion, music theory, and general music classes in a variety of programs across Toronto. Nathan holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music degree from Acadia University, both in percussion performance. Dots and Beams creates a wide variety of reading materials for musicians at all skill levels and for all instruments. The goal of Dots and Beams is to break music down into its elements and provide reading material focused on systematically developing each element in isolation. These books can be used in any number of ways and are an invaluable tool for creative musicians who enjoy inventing new exercises. In addition, these books make excellent, thoughtfully graduated sight-reading material for a wide range of ability levels from student to professional. How is Dots and Beams different? Many books of sight-reading materials are simply books of short compositions that range from easy to difficult. With this approach, after the first reading of each piece, the user is effectively no longer practising sight-reading but is instead learning a series of short pieces. While there is value in doing this, it is by definition not an exercise in sight-reading. Instead of providing a collection of short pieces, this book series provides reading material that is designed to require the user to process every single note and rhythm. These exercises are designed to be very difficult to memorize, impossible to predict, usable in any key, and flexible enough to be usable with many exercises beyond sight-reading. This allows the user to change the context and challenge level of the material depending on the exercise they are working on at any given moment. Each page can be used many times, in many different ways, and still feel fresh, new, and challenging. While other books spend a lot of time talking about reading music, Dots and Beams books focus more on providing an abundance of practice material. Each book has over 100 pages of exercises that are carefully graduated from easy to difficult. These books are a great tool for any musician and music educator, especially those who enjoy creating exercises to push themselves or their students to new levels.

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