A few weeks ago I was asked by my teacher if I could find a copy of Dave Tough's "Advanced Paradiddles". It was a book he had used as a youth and he had a hankering for it.
Well the search turned into something like the National Treasure movie.
No luck on Ebay, nothing from Amazon or any of their second hand affliates.. the closest I could get was an image of the from cover on Drmmerworld.com
Now this book had one edition and was last printed in 1947 so I didn't think I could find it too easily.
I posted on a couple of forums that have a large vintage following and eventually I had one drummer come back to me from vintagedrumforum.com
He took up the challenge and searched online library catelogues. Found two copies in the Library of Congress and started to organise an interlibrary loan through his college so he could send me a copy.
I have to say it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling about the world, good people and fellow drummers going that extra mile to help out another druummer that the've never met, don't know and is on the other side of the world.
Various other drummers chipped in with other clues and eventually we found a copy in a University library in Aust (only 1,000 miles from me but a whole lot closer than I thought possible)
I check with my local municipal library and they were willing to try and get an interlibrary transfer for me (they apologised that it was $15 and that their share of that was $2)
So the book arrived today, 102 pages of paradiddles exercises and I get to make a friend happy!
How good is the internet, how valuable is drumming forums and especially the the fellowship of drummers that makes possible the tracking down of an obscure book that's 61 years old possible.
Sometimes the world is a better place than I give it credit for.
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Once again, I find myself at the beginning
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