In 1942, Buddy Rich collaborated with Henry Adler, publishing Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments. It is known today as “the drummer's bible.” In 2005, Ted MacKenzie revised the classic snare drum book and, with Henry Adler's blessing, revealed the method behind the book. In this book, Ted takes Buddy's rudiments from the original book and carefully applies them to the drum set. There is no favoring of the downbeat in any of the rudiments, allowing the student to gain confidence and control while developing a natural vocabulary around the kit. Combined with MacKenzie's The Ultimate Drummer's Workout video, this comprehensive program is the fastest, most efficient study ever put together for gaining proficiency and fluidity around the kit. Video is accessed online for download or streaming using the unique code in each book.
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This wonderful collection for solo four-mallet vibraphone features 17 concise, beautifully written-out arrangements of favorite jazz gems geared toward the skilled intermediate and seasoned student/professional performer alike. Performance ntoes for each song are included to enhance your knowledge and technical ability. Songs include: Autumn in New York • Footprints • I Got Rhythm • Lullaby of Birdland • Night and Day • On Green Dolphin Street • Satin Doll • Summertime • (There Is) No Greater Love • Waltz for Debby • and more.
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The Great Jazz Drummers is an excellent reference for any drummer or jazz enthusiast. It features biographies and photos of 62 influential drummers, as well as a CD featuring 16 artists to demonstrate the gradual progression of jazz drumming through seven decades.
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Matching folio to the best-selling album. Includes: Master Of Puppets • Battery • Leper Messiah • plus photos.
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Matching folio to Metallica's second album, including: Creeping Death • Fade To Black • and more.
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Matching folio to their critically acclaimed self-titled album. Includes: Enter Sandman * Sad But True * The Unforgiven * Don't Tread On Me * Of Wolf And Man * The God That Failed * Nothing Else Matters * and 5 more metal crunchers.
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This continuation of Classic Overtures for Timpani features the complete timpani parts to 19 symphonies by Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart. Includes: Beethoven's Symphonies No. 1-9; Haydn's Symphonies No. 94 ('Surprise'), 100, and 101 ('The Clock'); and Mozart's Symphonies No. 31, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, and 41.
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Drum transcriptions to every song from Metallica's blockbuster album, plus complete drum setup diagrams, and background notes on Lars Ulrich's drumming style.
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This bestselling book is designed to help players gain an extremely high level of coordinated independence for rock drumming performance, thereby freeing all four limbs from dependence on one another. Once the material in this book has been mastered, students will be capable of playing almost any rhythmic figure on snare and bass drum, in combination with six varied hi-hat/cymbal patterns, while the hi-hat foot plays quarter notes, 8th notes, or upbeat 8ths. All examples are played on the accompanying CD.
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8 songs, including: Evil Ways • Gimme Some Lovin' • Gloria • Have I Told You Lately • Jailhouse Rock • Time Is on My Side • Twist and Shout • Walk Don't Run.
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This long-awaited collection features beautiful solo arrangements for skilled intermediate to professional performers on the four-mallet vibraphone. Includes 17 popular standards, complete with performance notes for each to enhance your knowledge and technical ability. Songs: All the Things You Are • Autumn Leaves • Bluesette • Body and Soul • Django • The Girl from Ipanema • Haunted Heart • I Could Write a Book • It's Impossible • Little Boat • Misty • My Funny Valentine • My One and Only Love • My Romance • Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) • Up, Up and Away • Wichita Lineman.
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Elementary level solos and duets (2 or 3 mallets).
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This book is a study of Gavin Harrison's performances with the band Porcupine Tree. Twenty highly detailed transcriptions by Terry Branam and in-depth commentary from Gavin take you through the concepts of each song.
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In The Polyrhythm Odyssey, Camille Bigeault explores several topic related to polyrhythms, presenting an approachable method for understanding and incorporating these often-confusing ideas into your drumming. Specifically, the books covers: polyrhythms; polymeters; metric modulation; ostinatos; subdivisions; note groupings; rhythmic illusions; and more.
The 128-page book explains the difference between polyrhythm and polymeter, then presents practice suggestions and tips for absorbing these concepts. Bigeault begins with an 11-note theme that was her first experience with polyrhythm; this is used to introduce her approach to learning odd groupings and playing over ostinatos. Note groupings are fully explored and explained, then used to create advanced grooves. Groupings of 5 and 7 are detailed, and examples are presented in a wide variety of time signatures. Playing note groupings with one hand alongside binary or ternary beats on the other hand is also explored. Several useful tips are included, which are applicable to material beyond the book.
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Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals.
For Rockschool's 2018-2024 Drums series, Rockschool have commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus.
The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock, metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recordingstudios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel, authenticity and musicianship.
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This book begins with the most basic fundamentals of drumming and then gradually progresses by introducing various rudiments until the student is ready for the drumset. The basics in reading, hand control, various triplet feelings, and standard rock beats are presented. Focused toward developing and coordinating hands, feet, and mind ... everything you need to become a great drummer!
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One of the biggest challenges for anyone attempting to notate a drumset part is that there is no absolute “standard” in terms of what makes up a drumset. Through this book, the Percussive Arts Society provides guidelines to aid performers, teachers, students, composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music engravers in producing clear drumset parts for a variety of uses. These guidelines cover the majority of situations and provide basic principles to help people arrive at logical solutions to unique circumstances. Topics covered include: general notation, drums, cymbals, noteheads, voicing, improvisational notation, and more.
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Enjoy some Christmas “vibes” on the vibraphone with this unique collection of 15 songs just for this percussion instrument: Blue Christmas • The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) • Christmas Time Is Here • Do You Hear What I Hear • Frosty the Snow Man • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas • Here Comes Santa Claus (Right down Santa Claus Lane) • I'll Be Home for Christmas • Jingle Bell Rock • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer • Santa Baby • Silver Bells • Sleigh Ride • White Christmas • Winter Wonderland.
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Sixty Fab Four favorites for bells/glockenspiel are included in this collection: All You Need Is Love • Blackbird • Can't Buy Me Love • Day Tripper • Eleanor Rigby • Here Comes the Sun • Hey Jude • I Want to Hold Your Hand • Let It Be • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da • Penny Lane • She Loves You • Twist and Shout • When I'm Sixty-Four • Yesterday • and more.
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Features the complete timpani parts to 26 standard orchestral overtures by Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Dvorak, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and Weber. Includes Prometheus Overture, Roman Carnival Overture, Academic Festival Overture, Carnival Overture, Les Preludes, A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Cosi Fan Tutte Overture, Don Giovanni Overture, The Magic Flute Overture, Wilhelm Tell Overture, The Flying Dutchman Overture, Oberon Overture, and many others.
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The 26 “traditional” drumming rudiments are the foundation of American rudimental drumming. This collection of rudimental examples and roll charts will aid the learner in mastering the rudimental language. John S. Pratt's early works, now once again available, are an essential part of America's “traditional” drumming heritage. This new edition contains a new foreword and corrected music engravings, and also includes the classic solos “The Sons of Liberty” and “The All-American Emblem.”
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Four arrangements for percussion quartet from the composer's composition that draws inspiration from the Amazon waters with tones of classical, new age and jazz. Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning, artist-run quartet of classically-trained percussionists from Chicago, USA.
The movements are: Amazon River, Xingu River, Japurá River, Madeira River.
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With The Ultimate Guide to Syncopation, master teacher Bruce Becker takes Ted Reed's classic book Syncopation and shows you how to use it to develop more relaxed movement, better flow, improved phrasing, and more advanced independence. Spanning more than four decades as an educator, Bruce has been bringing forward unique concepts in developing “the flow”! Through the years, drummers like David Garibaldi, Tris Imboden, Mark Schulman, Daniel Glass, Glen Sobel, Tim Carman and many more have sought his guidance.
In this book, Bruce adapts the exercises in the classic book Syncopation by Ted Reed to achieve fluidity of movement, phrasing and independence. The concepts presented in this book are designed to: choreograph your movement to achieve a better flow; build your own concepts for better phrasing; stretch your independence.
If you've checked out Syncopation but feel you have not unlocked the secrets that has made it one of the best-selling drum books of all time, Bruce will shed light on how to use it to supercharge your drumming. For longtime users of Syncopation, Bruce's approach will give you hours of new source material for productive practice.
“This book is incredibly comprehensive in its scope. It ranges from the physical mechanics involved in proper hand technique all the way to developing greater four-way independence on the drum set. Stylistically it covers so much territory as well, from rock to Latin all the way to Elvin Jones-style bebop. It's the hippest book I have seen in a long time!” -Tris Imboden (Chicago, Kenny Loggins)
“I've known Bruce for many years and I'm also a former student. He's one of my favorite teachers. A disciple of the legendary Freddie Gruber, Bruce takes what he learned from Freddie to another level. He's a master of movement and his exercises are very effective in building solid technique and relaxation. Thank you, B!” -David Garibaldi (Tower of Power)
Bruce Becker co-led the David Becker Tribune for 35 years, recording 10 CDs. He has performed/recorded with Ron Carter, Mike Stern, Russell Ferrante, Barbara Dennerlein, John Abercrombie, Frank Gambale and many others. Bruce has conducted master classes all over the world and most recently has been a regular contributor to Drumeo, creating the very successful Drum Technique Made Easy course. He is the author of Puzzles, Rhymes and Riddles, and the DVD, Concepts and Philosophies.
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Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals.
For Rockschool's 2018-2024 Drums series, Rockschool have commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus.
The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock, metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recording studios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel, authenticity and musicianship.
Songs in Level 1 include: Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) • I Want to Break Free (Queen) • In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett) • Liberation (Wretch 32) • Soul Man (Sam and Dave) • Yeah! (Usher).
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Welcome to the ISMS series, a drum method dedicated to and built around the famous Bruce Lee quote: “I fear not the [person] who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the [person] who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” For the purposes of this series, the quote has been modified as follows: “I fear not the MUSICIAN who has practiced 10,000 LICKS once, but I fear the MUSICIAN who has practiced one LICK 10,000 times.” Philly-ISM, the second book in Tim's ISMS series, is a unique analyses of Philly Joe Jones' “rudimental” approach to soloing. More specifically, it's a deep dive into Philly's use of the paradiddle.
With Philly-ISM, you will:
• Learn how Philly Joe utilized the paradiddle sticking and its variations in his solos
• Study 18 Philly solos from legendary recordings
• Permutate, orchestrate, and subdivide the ISM
• Analyze nine additional Philly trademark phrases
• Learn to sing and solo using your ISM over real song forms
• Absorb the ISM and create your own variations!
Includes over one hour of instructional video lessons demonstrating exercises and concepts from this book. Spiral-bound.
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Over the past decade, “Off the Record” has been one of Modern Drummer magazine's most popular columns. Each month it focuses on a well-known drummer through detailed transcriptions and analysis of recordings. Here for the first time is a collection of the best of these articles, highlighting outstanding performances in modern rock, metal, punk, classic rock, funk, and progressive music. Also features several new, never-before-published articles and a disc with over 175 MP3 examples!
Drummers included are John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Phil Collins, Carter Beauford, Chad Smith, Lars Ulrich, Dave Grohl, Matt Sorum, Taylor Hawkins, Dennis Chambers, Alex Van Halen, Stewart Copeland, and many, many more.
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