Sandy Feldstein's PlayinTime™ Productions, Inc. was incorporated as an umbrella company for Sandy Feldstein Music and Amidan Music, an ASCAP publishing company, which founded in 1966.
PlayinTime™ Productions, Inc. is dedicated to publishing the best music and music educational materials for teachers, students and music hobbyists. The ever-expanding catalog currently includes The Yamaha Advantage® complete band curriculum, the Yamaha Advantage® Band Series, Solo Series and Recorder Series all co-authored by Larry Clark and Sandy Feldstein as well as books by Wynton Marsalis and percussion books by Vic Firth and Ignacio Berroa.
Firth-Feldstein Percussion Series
An historic event for Percussion Education combines the talents of two of the most well respected names in the field of Percussion, Vic Firth and Sandy Feldstein.
Created with a flexible concept that allows use in any teaching situation. Each book is a comprehensive individual teaching method. All books can be used in any combination for group instruction and combined percussion ensemble performance.
Drumset & Latin Percussion Instruction
Best known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie, Afro-Cuban and Jazz drummer Ignacio Berroa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1953. He grew up in a musical family beginning his musical career by training to become a classical violinist following his father footsteps, before turning his sights to drumming. He studied at The National School of Arts and later at Havana's National Conservatory. Equally adept in Jazz and Latin percussion, Berroa recorded and performed with artists like Tito Puente, Charlie Haden, Chico Buarque, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chick Corea, and João Bosco. He is passionate about education, and has written educational drumset books and presented clinics around the world.
Giovanni Hidalgo began playing percussion in his native Puerto Rico at the age of five. He is the son of the great percussionist Jose “Manengue” Hidalgo so while growing up; his home was full of interesting instruments to play.
Gio, as his friends affectionately call him, began adapting the traditional rudiments of snare drum playing into his hand drumming. This practice helped him develop his incredible technique. Combinations of single, double and triple strokes and rolls have become part of his unique sound, incredible technique and musical approach to performing. When anyone hears or sees Giovanni Hidalgo perform they are impressed by his technique, his musicianship and his ability to make the music come to life.
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, and President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. He made history as the first musician to win Grammy Awards in both Jazz and Classical categories in the same year. His composition "Blood on the Fields" was the first Jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Recreational Music
To expand the Recreational Music Making movement, there has been a need for materials that will insure an exciting experience for all who want to play drums and other rhythm instruments. Rhythm Party™ products make it possible for any music dealer, or other consumer outlet to provide a group or individual with a wonderful music making experience. This “turnkey” program provides a positive atmosphere for making music and playing drums in a non-judgmental, creative, fun atmosphere.
The Rhythm Party™ Sound Shape™ DVD and The Rhythm Party™ Hand Drum DVD turn any environment into an instant rhythm party. The leaders and performers on the DVDs represent all ages and show how much fun and how easy it is to make music. The DVDs can be used at home for a family rhythm party, in schools or enjoyed one on one. It also is a stimulating play- along for any group from a daycare and preschool setting to a senior citizen and health care facility.
Musicianship from Day One
The Yamaha Advantage™ is the perfect way to begin instrumental music instruction. The educational process is enhanced with chorales, technique studies, familiar music from all cultures, great classical themes, special advantage exercises and musical ensemble experiences.
The compositions in The Yamaha Advantage™ Performance Series for Concert Band are designed to provide exciting performance material which is also pedagogically paced for beginning and intermediate band programs and correlate at specific points in The Yamaha Advantage™ Band Method Books 1 and 2.
Sandy Feldstein Music's unique series of performance pieces for String Orchestra are enhanced by the use of a solo string quartet playing on electronic or traditional instruments. The series contains a wide variety of music from contest style original pieces to Rock, Jazz, Fiddling and Christmas.
The Solo Series contains selections in a variety of styles and genres designed to meet all of your performance and teaching needs. There are extensive program notes, form and analysis and performance suggestions to help the student learn the pieces.