The art of jazz drumming has greatly evolved through generations of players whose approaches have influenced styles, techniques, and even the tools with which this music is played. No other tool is as immediately identified with jazz than the retractable wire brush used by drummers throughout the world. In this beautiful full-color illustrated book, acclaimed Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer, composer, educator, and producer Ulysses Owens Jr. (Christian McBride, Gregory Porter, Ted Nash, Joey Alexander, and many others) explains the history of the development of the brushes in jazz along with exercises and illustrations to help you play with authenticity and ease. Features:
• Play-along tracks and demos that allow you to play with a vocalist and full rhythm section comprised of some of today's best jazz musicians
• Instructional videos in which Ulysses shows you how to implement the discussed techniques in real time
• Bonus interviews
• A comprehensive list of recordings of jazz brushes players from over the years
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This comprehensive resource covers virtually every aspect of double bass drumming. By revealing the value of proper balance and foot technique, then applying those concepts to various warm-ups, mirrored grooves, fills and progressive phrasing applications, you will be thoroughly prepared for any musical situation demanding double bass proficiency. With nearly 200 pages of printed instruction, online access to 130 audio tracks, and over an hour of video content, this package is a must for double bass drummers of all levels. Topics covered include: practice suggestions • balance/foot technique insights and overview • dynamic warm-ups • mirrored double bass grooves based on 8th-note, 16th-note, 32nd-note and triplet feels • fill development using drum and cymbal orchestrations • phrasing concepts applied to grooves and fills.
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Master teacher Joe Porcaro presents rudiments at the drumset in this sensational new edition of Groovin' with Rudiments. This book is chock full of exciting drum grooves, sticking patterns, fills, polyrhythmic adaptations, odd meters, and fantastic solo ideas in jazz, rock, and Latin feels. The audio features 99 audio clip examples in many styles to round out this true collection of superb drumming material for every serious drumset performer. Includes a foreword and bio.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Step away from the practice pad! Legendary drummer Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to limber up your entire body. Features exercises to develop and improve your speed, power, control, coordination, independence, accuracy, endurance and agility. With this book, you'll gain a greater facility and command of the drum set, along with an increased feeling of confidence.
“The definitive text for improving technical facility on the drum set.”
– Ron Spagnardi
Editor/Publisher, Modern Drummer
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Progressive Drumming Essentials is a collection of material originally written for Modern Drummer magazine plus extensive additional content. This book breaks down fun and challenging material for progressive-minded drummers, including double bass, odd time signatures, displacements, odd subdivisions, and modulations, plus an in-depth section on polyrhythms and their applications to the drumset. Author Aaron Edgar is the drummer for the prog-metal band Third Ion. He's a regular instructor on Drumeo.com and a regular columnist for Modern Drummer magazine. He is known for teaching advanced rhythmic concepts and has a knack for being able to break down and explain challenging material in an easily understandable way.
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This is the second installment in the Modern Drummer Legends series. It includes Alex's 1983, 1993, and 2008 Modern Drummer cover stories along with transcriptions of classic Van Halen tracks, beats, and fills. It also includes a survey of the evolution of his famous live drumkits as well as a deep dive into his unique snare sound and an exclusive brand-new 2020 interview.
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The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online metronome!
The drum book features lessons on: drumset fundamentals, counting & rhythm basics, music reading, beginning grooves, fills, chart reading, rudiments, The Moeller Method, the shuffle, different time signatures, and listening suggestions. Includes drum beats from 14 songs: Another One Bites the Dust • Babylon Sisters • Bang Bang • Every Breath You Take • Everybody Wants to Rule the World • Free Fallin' • Hold the Line • La Grange • Minute by Minute • (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman • Sharp Dressed Man • Smells like Teen Spirit • Solsbury Hill • Whipping Post.
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Exteme Metal Drumming is your guide to an exciting musical genre that features great technicality, fast and complex double-bass patterns, odd time signatures, erratic song structures, and blazing tempos. This logical, step-by-step approach will enable drummers to acquire the diverse skills needed for this style while emphasizing musical applications of the techniques. Includes a foreword by George Kollias.
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Whether you are self-taught or taking lessons, learning for fun or heading for a career in the music industry, Trinity College London Rock & Pop exams will help you develop valuable playing skills and achieve your musical ambitions. Available for bass, drums, guitar, keyboard and vocals, from Initial (beginner) to Grade 8 (advanced), these exams cover a wide variety of music and artists – giving a great choice in all rock and pop styles.
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Always wanted to play drums? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction, professional audio and video examples, and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to start playing (this is a Hal Leonard book, after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be, ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you, the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar, Bass, Keyboard and Drums) include the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So, yes, it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Originally released in 1967, this Joe Morello classic is once again available. The precursor to his two most widely used instructional books – Master Studies and Master Studies II – this book covers: techniques such as right and left hand grips, playing position, striking the snare drum & hi-hat and more; beginning exercises; drum beats; teacher's charts; graphic cutouts and more. Includes a foreword by John Riley and an informative intro.
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The ultimate resource for all drummers and musicians! Featuring over 180 essential rhythms and patterns in standard drum and percussion notation from around the globe, including: pop, rock, jazz, Latin, worldbeat, and more. Also included is a tuning and maintenance section packed with tips to help keep your equipment in good condition.
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An invaluable reference guide for drummers of all genres, this snare drum rudiments chart features the 40 international drum rudiments with a short description and the patten in drum notation.
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Ricky Sebastian provides drummers with tools to improve coordination for use in all styles of music. Whether it be in rock, jazz, funk, or world music, the exercises within provide a system of practice by which to gain mastery of independence on the drum set.
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Maria Martinez provides in-depth coverage of: Mambo, Songo, Nanigo and Mozambique patterns; cowbell and ride cymbal variations; studies to develop left-foot clave; ostinatos, rhythm studies, 2-bar phrases; and much more! The recordings feature 40 full-band tracks with demos and play-alongs. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This enjoyable and challenging exercise system will elevate your body to entirely new levels of coordination and independence on the drumset. With the use of ostinatos, you will work your way, step by step, through a well-organized system of common patterns and rhythms for each hand and foot.
Not only will Drumset Coordination unlock your muscles, it will open your mind to many new possibilities of drumset playing and will help you realize your full musical potential. A unique and efficient approach to building drumset control and confidence, this book is a must-have for the serious drummer.
To watch a video introduction and examples on YouTube by author, Blake Paulson, click here.
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Integrate double bass drums into your beats. Two bass drums give you more power, speed, and flexibility, allowing you to create new dimensions of drumbeats. These timetables and other road-tested exercises methodically introduce the double pedal patterns into your beats, helping you play them intuitively, and revealing the possibilities of double bass drums. You get access to 38 online audio tracks for download or streaming, using the unique code inside this book. This will ensure you understand how each exercise could sound. These pedaling techniques and patterns will be useful in helping you to keep time, and playing solos and fills in jazz, funk, rock, world and any style of drumming.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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The goal of this book is to help develop, expand and solidify your rhythmic vocabulary, accuracy and comfort level and to build chops on top of that. The “rhythm builders” are meant to build your rhythmic vocabulary and make you much more comfortable, confident and accurate. The rhythms go from common to obscure, and there are certainly some challenges. As you train your mind, body and musical instinct with new and familiar rhythms through thousands of repetitions, they'll confidently and effortlessly come out in creative ways in the music that you play. The “chops builders” are an expansion of the exercises found in Bachman's Stick Technique book, although many of the exercises also borrow from the concepts covered in the “rhythm builders” section of this book.
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If you're interested in playing drumset in a church setting or worship group, this unique book/audio pack is for you. Praise and Worship Drumming by percussionist and teacher Cary Nasatir is a clear and concise guide for the beginning to intermediate drummer and also a must-have for the non-drumming worship leader, music director, and minister of music. Covering a wide variety of musical styles, the book includes lessons on rhythmic fundamentals, drumset anatomy, techniques and more. The companion audio contains many of the examples in the book for both demonstration and play-along.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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As drummer for the legendary B.B. King and countless other blues, soul, rock and pop artists, Tony Coleman has spent a lifetime refining his brilliant, wide-ranging drum skills and knowledge. And now, in this exclusive full-length video and book, Tony shares his invaluable wisdom on the often-overlooked art of the blues shuffle. Featuring loads of shuffles styles, blues variations, concepts, tips and much more, this intimate video lesson also includes a book of transcriptions detailing all of the main video examples.
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Coordinated independence refers to the ability to execute separate rhythms in each hand and foot in a coordinated manner, yet totally independent of one another. This book will teach you this essential part of jazz drumming. Section One covers snare drum independence, Section Two teaches bass drum independence, Section Three puts them both together, and Section Four features helpful combination exercises.
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This drumming workbook helps to perfect fill technique for a variety of rock styles. Basic rhythms are shown, then modified with orchestrations. Practice tips and a variety of quotes provide additional inspiration. The accompanying audio includes 71 demo and play-along tracks. Covers: practice suggestions, motion concepts, compound rhythm concepts, hand-foot concepts, drum to cymbal concepts, roll concepts, play-along charts, percussion notation, and more.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Get started playing cool drum beats today with this book! If you're a beginning drummer, look no further than this very affordable drumset resource. Each page provides a core drum beat with three drum fill options, plus specific suggestions for popular tunes to try with each beat. Includes audio and video demonstrations tracks online (for download or streaming) for every beat and fill in the book, plus a metronome to help you practice at different tempos. Designed for use with a standard 4-piece drumset, but will also work great for expanded kits as well.
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Advance your creativity and command of the drum set. Phrasing will help you expand your vocabulary by using standard rudiments and exciting rhythmic concepts, making your playing more conversational, dynamic, and focused. First, you'll learn a core set of phrases that are the basis for all the exercises. Then, each of the 50 lessons applies rudiments and innovative stickings to the phrases to explode the rhythmic potential of standard practice routines. This process will give you a comprehensive drum set vocabulary that you can bring to all groove styles. 52 minutes of video demonstration and audio play-along tracks are accessible online for download or streaming, using the unique code inside this book.
Online audio/video is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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Learn jazz drums from one of the classic texts of jazz drumming, Alan Dawson. This book presents some of his seminal thoughts about drumming technique. The book also includes several articles about jazz styles and history by DownBeat magazine editor Don DeMicheal, plus his insights about the soloing styles of jazz greats like Chick Webb, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Art Blakey and others. This source material from two of the jazz era's most insightful champions of the drum set will teach you how to: develop your sense of time and jazz feel • master jazz rhythms and meter • play with greater independence and expressive nuance • perform essential beats • deveop your soloing ability • and much more.
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This in-depth workshop, complete with helpful diagrams and online practice audio, will help drummers master the art of brush playing. It features 10 essential concepts, 32 brush patterns, rhythm table exercises for dexterity, coordination exercises for time playing, and signature strokes in the styles of legends like Buddy Rich, Philly Joe Jones, and Elvin Jones. The online audio is the ultimate practice accompaniment, enabling drummers to play along with 34 bass groove tracks.
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“This book is a must-read for all aspiring musicians.” –Bassist, producer, and musical director Rickey Minor
Welcome to your one-stop-shop for learning how tune your chops to pop, R&B, and gospel drumming! This unique book/video/audio combo is the ultimate guide to developing grooves, improvisation, and technical mastery within modern music styles and settings. Chris Johnson has been one of the top in-demand drummers in the music industry for the last 20 years. His recording and touring credits range from pop icons such as Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna to R&B singers Patti LaBelle, Mya, Lalah Hathaway, and Fantasia along with gospel artists Donnie McClurkin, Norman Hutchins, and Beverly Crawford. In this book, Chris gives advice for playing techniques and approaches, and sharing of experiences of playing in both live performances and studio sessions. In addition to Chris's insights and instruction, the accompanying videos and audio tracks showcase Chris playing to pop hits along with original music and arrangements played by his band. We've even included bonus material featuring interviews with other industry professionals! The three-plus hours of video content is accessed online using the unique code in each book.
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This convenient compilation of books 1 & 2 is the ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction (in print, audio and video!), terrific songs, 197 professional quality full-band demo and demo tracks via online audio tracks, and online video lessons. It can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher and watch the video. This complete guide to the basics covers: beats, songs and fills; all musical styles; playing tips and techniques; and music notation. Learn at your own pace with over 180 great songs and examples!
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WINNER of Music Inc. 2022 NAMM Editor's Choice Award
The Total Drummer is put together for any drummer who is looking to take their playing to the next level, offering a complete package designed to help you achieve your musicianship goals. Professional drummer, producer, and educator Dimitri Fantini guides you through exercises, drills, and routines that are guaranteed to improve your playing!
Lessons include: rudiments; developing advanced hand and feet techniques; coordinating independence; stacking meters; maximizing vocabulary; working in the studio; over an hour of video performances and instruction; and more!
The book includes video lessons, showing you how to implement the concepts described within. It also includes a special solo performance by the author, fully transcribed and showing all the techniques explained in the book!
Video is accessed online for download or streaming using the unique code inside each book.
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From Tadd Dameron through Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Cannonball Adderly and Benny Golson, to his own 17-piece “Supersound” big band, Charli Persip has been one of the most in-demand drummers in all of jazz, as well as in the pop genre. A textbook example of how to play the drums, Persip has proven his worth in a wide variety of ensembles and handled the transitions from one group to the next without missing a beat. Learn from his experiences and share some of his insights in this practical, down-to-earth text. Newly revised and expanded to include “The Warm-Up Exercise,” this book for all musicians and music lovers is loaded with playing tips, great advice and anecdotes.
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