Deep dive into the history and musical vocabulary of popular styles like rock, jazz, blues, country and soul along with subgenres such as go-go, surf rock, no wave, Afrobeat, dub and electronic dance music.
Drumming from A to Z: More Stuff You Can Use, by Rob Mitzner, takes a deep dive into the history and musical vocabulary of popular styles like rock, jazz, blues, country and soul along with subgenres such as go-go, surf rock, no wave, Afrobeat, dub and electronic dance music. Each of the 32 sections features original music play-alongs and in-depth video lessons, plus interviews and tips from top New York session players.
As the sequel to the author's first offering, Drumming in a Band: Stuff You Can Use, this book provides historical context, fun stories and recommended listening for each style, helping students to understand where the music came from along with how to play it. Some grooves are an homage to influential drummers such as Questlove, Levon Helm and Jim Black, while others focus on musical moments in time like the arena rock era of the 1980s or industrial music in the '90s. All the material is drawn from the author's real-world experience as a working musician playing different styles. This book is the perfect companion for intermediate and advanced drummers who want to broaden their musical horizons and work in everyday band situations.
169 pages with online audio and video
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Jeff Porcaro was a founding member of the Grammy® Award-winning band Toto, and he also recorded and toured with a list of artists that reads like a who's who of popular music in the late twentieth century. His long-time friend, Robyn Flans has written this biography of one of the most recorded drummers in history, held in equal esteem by fans and music professionals alike. It includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Ron Howard, Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Peter Frampton and others, plus extensive commentary from Jeff's Toto bandmates and his family. The book also includes a 24-page glossy photo center section, including many never-before-seen pictures.
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In Drummer's Polymetric Mastery, educator, author and performer Jason Gianni, provides an in-depth study of independence aimed at uncovering a pathway to executing polymeters, over-the-bar phrases and cross-rhythms for the drum set. Based primarily around groove-building exercises in 4/4, Jason's unique approach exposes a systematic process to develop the various subdivisions and odd-numbered grouping coordination required in understanding the language of polymetric drumming. The material throughout the book is presented through both standard groove options and assorted rhythmic exercises for bass drum & snare drum, combined with accented ostinato hand patterns to assemble technically demanding yet innovative contemporary patterns. Despite an understandably greater level of difficulty, the progressive pathway presented in the book is suitable for those just entering this adventurous journey up to drummers who may have already developed an appreciation of polymeters.
Each section helpfully guides the performer with suggestions on how to read, hear, count, perform or even transcribe the exercises. With the aid of selected video examples, the comprehensiveness of the material provides the reader with the opportunity to come away with a much more controlled sense of numbers heard simultaneously existing with one another; a sense of “rhythmic ear training.” Venturing into a more challenging field of study will, in turn, secure a better command of control & solidity of a more simplistic, standard internal pulse as a result. In addition to a much higher level of interdependence gained, this material will open the door for the drummer to discover his or her greater potential for individuality and creativity.
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