Edition notes
Status: evolving. This list is populated as I work through the source book. It will not be complete until my reading of Rondinelli & Lauren’s Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming is complete. Entries below reflect what I have personally verified against both the Original and Revised editions; anything not yet checked is not on the list.
What this file covers
Four kinds of entry:
- Printing errors — cases where one edition prints an exercise in a way that appears to contradict the chapter’s stated purpose or R&L’s own prose, and the other edition prints it in a way that fits.
- Per-exercise notation differences — cases where the two editions notate the same exercise in genuinely different but not obviously wrong ways.
- Confirmed identical, worth mentioning — cases where an exercise looks unusual enough to raise a “did they typo this?” question, and I have checked both editions and can confirm the notation stands as printed in both.
- Structural inventory — one-line acknowledgements of macro-level differences between the two editions (e.g. Revised-only chapters).
The general edition policy (which edition the manual defaults to, how to work from the Original Edition, etc.) is in Approach §3.2, not here.
Structural inventory
- Chapters 15–23 are Revised-only. The Original Edition ends at Ch. 14. The corresponding pages in the Original hold back-matter essays (Double Bass Time Line, Discography, “Future of Double Bass Drumming”) rather than exercise material. Full detail — including implications for anyone working from the Original Edition — in Approach §3.2.
Printing errors
Ex. 1.1, bar 2 (Revised Edition)
- Symptom. The Revised Edition prints bar 2 of Ex. 1.1 on the same bass drum as bar 1 — both on BD I (strong foot).
- Why this looks wrong. R&L Ch. 1’s stated purpose is to “isolate and help develop your weak foot.” A two-bar exercise with both bars on the strong foot does not serve that purpose.
- What the Original Edition prints. Bar 2 on BD II (weak foot). Reads as a strong-foot / weak-foot alternation across the two bars, which does fit the chapter’s stated purpose.
- How the manual plays it. Per the Original Edition: bar 1 strong foot, bar 2 weak foot. Called out on Chapter 1 under “Note on Ex. 1.1 (edition discrepancy)”.
Per-exercise notation differences
None confirmed to date beyond the Ex. 1.1 printing error above (which is an error, not a stylistic difference). Add here as more surface during ongoing reading.
Confirmed identical, worth mentioning
Ex. 5.13, snare on 2e and 4
- What raised the flag. The snare voice in Ex. 5.13 reads
_____x______x___ — hits on 2e and 4, not the 2-and-4 backbeat that Ex. 2.5, Ex. 2.7, Ex. 2.10, Ex. 3.12 and Ex. 4.12 all share.
- Verification. Checked bar-by-bar against both the Original and Revised editions. Identical in both. The manual accepts the notation as an intentional Ch. 5 stylistic choice — probably driven by the placement of the five-consecutive-16th run at the top of the bar (positions 0–4, spanning beat 1 into beat 2), which the 2-and-4 backbeat would occlude.
- Implication for practice. Play as printed. Do not “correct” the snare to a 2-and-4 backbeat.