On this second amazing DVD session Danny Gottlieb surveys the techniques of the great musicians - Buddy Rich Mel Lewis Gary Chester Airto Moreira John McLaughlin Pat Metheny and Mark Egan - who have helped him become a 'complete all-around drummer.' The lesson is filled with invaluable tips important advice and inspiring musical ideas for all learning players. Numerous hands-on exercises will help you develop the essential percussion techniques you'll need to play your best. Danny teaches big band beats and advanced drum set techniques that will set you up for all styles of music. He takes apart a variety of Brazilian grooves (samba bossa nova partito alto etc.) and imparts a fascinating lesson in counting and playing complex rhythms using the Indian syllable method. Finally bassist Mark Egan joins Danny for a discussion of how a bassist and drummer successfully work together. They close the DVD with some sizzling duets to illustrate their long-time working method for creating blues and jazz grooves. The songs they perform include DePraw Blues Willie's Blues and Waterfall Cafe.

This is a complete instructional play-along package with a unique twist. The included minus drums CD features eleven tracks that gradually step up in tempo from 100 to 310 bpm.Based on classic jazz standard these play-along tunes give the drummer the opportunity to work on increasing his/her drumming facility in a real world musical fashion.The package contains drum charts and suggested patterns for each song as well as a lead sheet for each song helping the drummer to understand what he or she may encounter in a real jazz gig.Written by 2 jazz pros Peter Rezlaff and Jim Rupp it also includes a complete instructional method for learning how toplay jazz covering such topics as covering your jazz ride cymbal patterns feathering the bass drum learning comping patterns and playing with brushes.All of the songs and educational topics are accompanied by clear text that explains the concepts along with an extensive recommended listening discography.

Note-for-note transcriptions of Carter Beauford's great drum work on 10 DMB hits: Ants Marching * The Best of What's Around * Crash into Me * Don't Drink the Water * Rapunzel * Satellite * So Much to Say * Stay (Wasting Time) * Too Much * What Would You Say.

Join in with the Poncho Sanchez Latin Band and learn the styles and techniques of Latin percussion. Sanchez gives you a detailed guide to his instrument set-up and all the skills you need to play authentic and characteristic accompaniment patterns as part of a Latin band. Discover what is required when playing the Congas Bongos Timbales Bass Piano and other instruments when working in the styles of Mambo Chachacha Merengue and Afro Cuban music.

This book was created to help drummers improve their abilities to play great drum fills. The material presented was originally developed over the course of several years as a result of the needs and requests of many of mystudents. As drummers practice playing fills it becomes apparent that there are a variety of issues that need to be addressed. To play fluent and creative fills a drummer needs a strong foundation of basic fill concepts thetechnique to execute the fill and musical ideas for the content of the fill. Without these key elements playing fills can be a source of difficulty and frustration. To further illustrate this idea… In some cases a drummer maypractice a particular lick or sticking pattern to a high degree of physical execution but does not have a clear understanding of how to apply it well within a musical phrase. The opposite is also sometimes true a drummer mayunderstand a simple rhythmic idea and play it very well as a fill but doesn't quite know how to employ more interesting techniques or sounds into the phrase and get something else out of it. The goal of this book is to helpdrummers achieve a balance in these necessary skills. This book presents a diverse collection of studies and exercises that clarify the basics of drum fills develop more advanced and specific techniques to use in fills andpresent many ideas for musical phrases using the techniques. The studies are presented in an order that follows a natural progression of ability however… the exercises do not need to be played in the order they are presented.Students and teachers can select exercises to design a curriculum that fits a student's needs as their skills develop. With each set of exercises you will find descriptions tips and practice instructions. Sometimes they arewritten for each individual study and when appropriate they are written for the entire chapter. Be sure to read the text that accompanies each part of this book to get the most out of the exercise.

This new DVD from Tommy Igoe focuses on developing and maintaining the physical tools that are essential for every drummer and drumming application: their hands.At the heart of this life-changing career-extending system is the three-tier 'Lifetime Warmup' originally conceived in the 1950s by Tommy's father Sonny Igoe. Featuring basic intermediate and advanced levels the Lifetime Warmup is a challenging routine that weaves its way through standard drum rudiments and motions. This nearly four-hour DVD includes Tommy demonstrating the basics of his system:Matched and Traditional gripFulcrum ConceptsRebound StrokesSingles andDoublesCheck PatternsThe Five Families Of RudimentsYou also get a group demonstration with five of Tommy's students including all three versions of the Lifetime Warmup. Included are a free colour-coordinated wall sized Lifetime Warmup poster and a compact fold-out guide courtesy of Evans Drumheads as well as a printable 60-page eBook with instruction and exercises. Created by one of today's most successful and progressive drum educators Great Hands For A Lifetime brings the no-nonsense inspiring approach of the Groove Essentials series to hand technique and provides a proven alternative for drummers who wish to discover the full potential of their hands and stay healthy drumming over the decades to come.

The Doors are inextricably linked to '60s counterculture. Taking their name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, the group followed Jim Morrison's dark poetic vision to massive commercial success, making The Doors one of the best-selling bands of all time. This folio contains drum transcriptions of 20 of the band's most classic songs, including the vocal melody and lyrics. Also featured is an in-depth stylistic analysis of drummer John Densmore's contribution to The Doors' captivating, melancholy sound. / Batterie

66 Drum Solos for the Modern Drummer presents drum solos in all styles of music in an easy-to-read format.These solos are designed to help improve you technique independence improvisational skills and reading ability on the drums and at the same time provide you with some cool licks that you can use right away in your own playing.The DVD features footage of every solo performed by author Tom Hapke.

Instructional DVD-?Most fathers gave their four-year-old children train sets toy cars or tricycles. Mine gave me a scaled down Ludwig drum set.? Jason Bonham. Jason Bonham was not quite four when his father the legendary Led Zeppelin powerhouse drummer John Bonham gave him his first drum kit. It was a smaller replica of the exact set used by his father and the first of many as Jason grew to become a talented and dedicated musicians. After playing with a few bands he went on to record and tour with Jimmy Page and play with Led Zeppelin. He later represented his father when the superband was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Jason has performed with Foreigner UFO famous guitarists Ted Nugent and Slash and his own band Bonham. In this very personal session taped in 1990 Jason discusses the many influences that helped him develop his unique style. He explores his approaches to time playing drum fill ideas drummer's attitude and performing live. He discusses his equipment and how studio effects can enhance the sound of the drums. The enclosed booklet has diagrams showing Jason's drum set up and includes fully notated examples and exercises that accompany this DVD. With Bonham band-mates Ian Hatton guitar and John Smithson on keyboards Jason plays songs from his band and from Led Zeppelin. A special feature is a rare video clip of Jason as a young boy with his father John playing drums at home in England.

A collection of Fan Favorites by the Charlottesville Virginia songwriter and his band especially presented for the Drums with accurate Play It Like It Is transcriptions. Includes Crush The Space Between and Jimi Thing.

A collection of 120 Drum set exercises designed to help the beginning to intermediate drummer develop coordination independence and accompanying skills between the snare and bass Drum while keeping steady jazz time on the ridecymbal. The play-along tracks will help students develop the ability to recognize the 12-bar blues and 32-bar AABA form two of the most popular song forms in jazz music. Practicing with the tracks will also help you developbetter clock time and should inspire some creative interaction with the recorded music. Exercises include patterns using quarter notes quarter and eighth note combinations and triplets and other combinations. The 32-bar AABAsong form is practiced with and without drums and at slow and fast tempos with a bass track. The 12-bar blues form is practiced with various combinations including Drums Bass both or neither. All tempos from the audio downloadare indicated in the book. A helpful glossary of musical signs and symbols is also included. Audio download available online.

Turn those standard 26 rudiments into mind-blowing groovers fills and solos. All that rhythmic sophistication you hear in the playing of great drummers can easily be broken down into its basic elements: the rudiments.Rudiments are the drum language a basic vocabulary of rhythms that drummers arrange and rearrange when they play grooves solos and fills. This book shows you how to apply the rudiments to the drum set in all styles of music.When you start combining the hands and feet orchestrating different parts of the rudiments between the various drums and cymbals on your set you'll start to make inspired music. Fifty illustrated grooves are reinforced withthe accompanying CD; hear how the rudiments sound when you apply them to the drum set. Discover how these basics become the foundation for all grooves and moves including: Single and double strokes Stroked rolls DragsFlams Paradiddles double paradiddles paradiddle grooves and fills Combinations Your choices of accents tempos style and feel are what will ultimately make the rudiments into music. Learning and internalizingthem will help you expand your vocabulary to play creative grooves fills and solos. Use Rudiment Grooves to create an infininte number of combinations in any style and at any tempo. Rick Considine is anAssociate Professor at Berklee College of Music. He was a former percussion instructor and drum set conductor at Drummer's Collective in New York.

Stanton Moore presents a study in New Orleans Street Beats and second-line rhythms that takes the glorious cosmopolitan sounds of the Louisiana style and applies them to funk and rock drumming.New Orleans native Stanton Moore has studied the indigenous styles of his home city for many years and this unique tutorial gives you the chance to learn about this rich musical heritage and master the beats that have become so characteristic of this cultural melting-pot. You will learn about the history of street beats second line and the Mardi Gras Indians as well as the importance of clave to New Orleans drumming. You will discover how to put a New Orleans spin ontraditional rhythms like Mambo Guaguanco Shuffle and Samba and how to add inflection and variations to bring them to life. The accompanying CD includes performances by The Dirty Dozen George Porter and Ivan Neville.The ideal choice for drummers of all abilities and styles wishing to add some unusual but thoroughly infectious elements to their playing.