Par NILLES ANIKA. If you don’t have access to your drums regularly, travel a lot, or have neighbors with sensitive ears, you will already have a PRACTICE PAD. But practicing without a drum kit is special! To keep your hands agile and dive deeper into EFFECTIVE METHODS that really improve your pad technique, ANIKA NILLES‘ PAD BOOK is JUST THE THING!  Anika gives plenty of options WHAT AND HOW to practice on a pad. Practice pads are particularly well suited because they reduce drumming to one basic sound source. This way you follow a process of continuous progression in terms of stickings and rudiments, phrasings and rhythm concepts. The FUNDAMENTAL WORKOUTS are allocated to four chapters: Subdivision Studies, Mixed Meters, Hand Independence, and Polyrhythms. The result is a complete system with triplets, 16th notes, quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets, which are broken down into individual steps starting with a very basic layout before moving to more complex rhythms. The focus is on building up and consolidating fundamentals across all note values, raising awareness on a feel for time and rhythm, and presentation of many possibilities on how you can expand acquired skills. Anika also puts together a collection of WARM-UPS which suggest ideas on how you create your own rhythm patterns out of the technical features in this book. The deeper meaning underpinning Anika’s ideas is always how to be MORE CREATIVE. It is about working on your weaknesses, developing new ideas and rhythms for yourself, or simply looking at familiar things from a different perspective. Back on the DRUM KIT you will find that you can focus on more specific, musically relevant topics such as sound, orchestration, and dynamics, since the hands, body, and mind have already internalized the basics practiced on the pad. JUST FUNDAMENTAL   / Methods & Tutors / Etude / Percussions

Avec l'impulsion de Jazz, le batteur / éducateur Nic Marcy fournit une méthode complète pour la construction d'un chronométrage vocabulaire de jazz. En s'appuyant sur d'autres méthodes de jazz classique, le livre propose des exercices basés sur des approches communes de chronométrage du plus simple au très avancé (appelés 'lignes de temps'), et propose des exercices pour développer l'indépendance et l'installation Comping avec chaque approche. De cette façon, le livre couvre des sujets tels que les idées de jazz shuffle, Elvin Jones et Tony Williams concepts, les déplacements, Comping polyrythmique, plans-en 3/4, trois et exercices d'interdépendance à quatre voies, la modulation métrique et plus encore. Le disque fourni contient 21 titres MP3 (dont play-Along Songs) et 34 vidéos Quick-Time totalisant plus de 20 minutes de temps de fonctionnement. / Percussions