Song List:
Level 1: The Path
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Parts of a Drumset
Setting Up the Drums
Holding the Drumsticks
Basic Hand Technique
Basic Foot Technique
Reading Music Notation
Basic Rock Beats
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (from The White Stripes' White Blood Cells) (2001)
Runnin' Down a Dream (from Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever) (1989)
Back in Black (from AC/DC's Back in Black) (1980)
I Won't Back Down (from Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever) (1989)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (from Green Day's American Idiot) (2004)
Paradise City (from Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction) (1987)
You Shook Me All Night Long (from AC/DC's Back in Black) (1980)
Hard to Handle (from The Black Crowes' Shake Your Money Maker) (1990)
Free Fallin' (from Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever) (1989)
Come As You Are (from Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit) (1991)
Smoke on the Water (from Deep Purple's Machine Head) (1972)
Kashmir (from Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti) (1975)
The Weight (from The Band's Music from Big Pink) (1968)
When the Levee Breaks (from Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV) (1971)
Sweet Emotion (from Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic) (1975)
Walk This Way (from Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic) (1975)
Basic Rock Fills
Free Fallin' (ex. 1) (from Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever) (1989)
Free Fallin' (ex. 2) (from Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever) (1989)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (ex. 1) (from Green Day's American Idiot) (2004)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (ex. 2) (from Green Day's American Idiot) (2004)
Livin' on the Edge (from Aerosmith's Get a Grip) (1993)
Jamie's Cryin' (from Van Halen's Van Halen) (1979)
D'Yer Mak'er (from Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy) (1973)
Parts of a Drum
Drumhead Selection
Tuning the Drums
Drumstick Selection
Level 2: The Path
Reading Music Notation---What You Should Already Know
Basic Blues and Shuffle Beats
Red House (from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced) (1997 remastered version)
You Shook Me (from Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin) (1969)
Paying the Cost to Be the Boss (from B.B. King's Complete Collection) (2008, single version originally released in 1968)
Sweet Home Chicago (from The Blues Brothers' The Blues Brothers Soundtrack) (1980)
Revolution (from The Beatles' 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)) (1973, originally released in 1968 as the B-side to the "Hey Jude" single)
Bad to the Bone (from George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Bad to the Bone) (1982)
Who Do You Love (from George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Move It On Over) (1978)
Boom, Boom (from John Lee Hooker's Urban Blues) (1967)
I Want to Be Loved #2 (from Muddy Waters' Hard Again) (1977)
Manish Boy (from Muddy Waters' Hard Again) (1977)
Green Onions (from Booker T. & the MG's Green Onions) (1962)
At Last (ex. 1) (from Etta James's At Last) (1961)
At Last (ex. 2) (from Etta James's At Last) (1961)
Texas Flood (from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's Texas Flood) (1983)
Pride and Joy (from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's Texas Flood) (1983)
Move It On Over (from George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Move It On Over) (1978)
Basic Blues and Shuffle Fills
Sweet Home Chicago (ex. 1) (from The Blues Brothers' The Blues Brothers Soundtrack) (1980)
Sweet Home Chicago (ex. 2) (from The Blues Brothers' The Blues Brothers Soundtrack) (1980)
Stone Crazy (from Buddy Guy's Buddy's Blues) (1997, single originally released in 1962)
Red House (ex. 1) (from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced) (1997 remastered version)
Red House (ex. 2) (from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced) (1997 remastered version)
Basic Jazz Beats
Everybody Loves Somebody (from Dean Martin's Dream with Dean) (1964)
What a Wonderful World (from Louis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hits) (song originally recorded in 1968)
I've Got You Under My Skin (from Michael Buble's It's Time) (2005)
Theme from New York, New York (from Frank Sinatra's Trilogy: Past Present and Future) (1980)
Straight, No Chaser (from Miles Davis's Milestones) (1958)
In a Mellow Tone (from Duke Ellington's Best of Duke Ellington) (song originally recorded in 1939)
In the Mood (from The Glenn Miller Orchestra's Best of Glenn Miller) (song originally recorded in 1939)
Chelsea Bridge (from Buddy Rich's The Best of Buddy Rich) (Pacific Jazz) (1997, song originally recorded in 1970)
Blues Walk (from Lou Donaldson's Blues Walk) (1958)
The Sidewinder (from Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder) (1964)
Moanin' (from Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Moanin') (1958)
So What (from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue) (1959)
Jeru (from Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool) (1949)
Basic Jazz Fills
In Walked Bud (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, single originally recorded in 1947)
I've Got You Under My Skin (ex. 1) (from Michael Buble's It's Time) (2005)
I've Got You Under My Skin (ex. 2) (from Michael Buble's It's Time) (2005)
I've Got You Under My Skin (ex. 3) (from Michael Buble's It's Time) (2005)
Moanin' (from Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Moanin')(1958)
In Walked Bud (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, single originally released in 1947)
Everybody Loves Somebody (ex. 1) (from the Dean Martin's Dream with Dean (1964)
Everybody Loves Somebody (ex. 2) (from the Dean Martin's Dream with Dean (1964)
Level 3: The Path
Basic Country Beats
On the Road Again (from Willie Nelson's 16 Biggest Hits) (1998, originally released on the Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack in 1980)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia (from The Charlie Daniels Band's Million Mile Reflections) (1979)
Basic Funk Beats
Groovy Lady (from The Meters' Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology) (1995)
Doodle Loop (The World Is a Little Bit Under the Weather) (from The Meters' Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology) (1995)
Unfunky UFO (from Parliament's Mothership Connection) (1976)
You Can Make It If You Try (from Sly & the Family Stones' Stand!) (1969)
Tippi-Toes (from The Meters' Struttin') (1970)
Brick House (from The Commodores' Commodores) (1977)
Chameleon (from Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters) (1973)
Thinking (from The Meters' Look-Ka Py Py) (1969)
Super Bad, Pt. 1 (from James Brown's 70's Funk Classics) (2004, single originally released in 1970)
Basic Reggae Beats
54--46 That's My Number (from Toots & The Maytals' The Very Best of Toots & The Maytals) (2000, single originally released in 1968)
Buffalo Soldier (from Bob Marley and the Wailers' Confrontation) (1983)
One Love / People Get Ready (from Bob Marley and the Wailers' Exodus) (1977)
Rootsman Skanking (from Bunny Wailers' Rootsman Skanking) (1987)
Basic Latin Beats
The Girl from Ipanema (from Astrud Gilberto, Jo„o Gilberto, & Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto) (1964)
Fee (from Phish's Junta) (1989)
Desafinado (Off Key) (from Charlie Byrd & Stand Getz's Jazz Samba) (1962)
More Jazz Beats
In Walked Bud (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, song originally recorded in 1947)
More Jazz Fills
In Walked Bud (ex. 1) (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, song originally recorded in 1947)
In Walked Bud (ex. 2) (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, song originally recorded in 1947)
In Walked Bud (ex. 3) (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, song originally recorded in 1947)
In Walked Bud (ex. 4) (from Thelonious Monk's The Very Best) (2005, song originally recorded in 1947)
Blues Walk (ex. 1) (from Lou Donaldson's Blues Walk) (1958)
Blues Walk (ex. 2) (from Lou Donaldson's Blues Walk) (1958)
Blues Walk (ex. 3) (from Lou Donaldson's Blues Walk) (1958)
More Time Signatures
Money (from Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon) (1973)
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (from Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You) (1967)
The Trees (from Rush's Hemispheres) (1978)
I Hung My Head (from Sting's Mercury Falling) (1996)
Tom Sawyer (from Rush's Moving Pictures) (1981)
Time / Meter / Tempo Manipulation
Me and Bobby McGee (from Janis Joplin's Pearl) (1971)
Wherever I May Roam (from Metallica's Metallica, a.k.a. The Black Album) (1991)
Stand (from Blues Traveler's Four) (1994)
