On September 16 and 17 2006 The Modern Drummer Festival Weekend returned to the incredible New Jersey Performing Arts Center for its most ambitious festival ever. Sixteen drummers and percussionists performed with more than twenty musicians making for one of the most exciting festival weekends in its eighteen-year history. Backstage while these incredible performances were taking place each artist was interviewed at a practice kit. Each in-depth interview features playing and demonstration as well as discussion on technique warming up their MD Fest performance and much more. And for the first time ever on any MD Festival drummers interviewed drummers: SteveSmith interviewed Thomas Lang Aaron Spears interviewed Gerald Heyward Gerald interviewed Marvin McQuitty etc making for some truly historic moments. Disc One: The Performances. The spectacular performances on this DVD include: Ronald Bruner Jr. Jason McGerr Teddy Campbell Gerald Heyward Aaron Spears Marvin McQuitty Glenn Kotche Thomas Lang Luis Conte Stewart Copeland with Gizmo Run time: 3 hours Disc Two: VIP backstage pass the interviewsExtensive and in-depth interviews at a practice kit with each of this year’s featured performers including demonstration and discussion of technique practice and warm-up routines and specific playing examples from their MD Festival performance.Run time: 3 hours 22 minutes Total run time for both DVDs: 6 hours 22minutes

Modern Drummer Festival 2003 featured almost unprecedented cross-section of great drummers and percussionists! This Two-Disc DVD set captures almost 6 hours of incredible performance footage from this amazing event. Disc One - Saturday Mike Orris winner Undiscovered Drummer under 18 The Hip Pickles The Nathaniel Townsley Trio Matt Wilson and Band Steve Smith and Vital Information Mike Portnoy with Yellow Matter Custard and Dream Theater. Disc Two - Sunday Louis Santiago Jr. winner Undiscovered Drummer over 18 The Drumbassadors Nick D'Virgilio Antonio Sanchez Airto Moreira and Shawn Pelton with House ofDiablo. Special DVD Features include: Bonus Footage - including Behind the Scenes & Rehearsal Footage Photo Gallery Weblinks and more!

The one-hour and thirty-five-minute Master Class session offers unprecedented view of a modern drumming icon as Steve reveals his approach to the drums and music through an open question-and-answer format. His natural warmth charisma and abundant drumming skills are readily apparent as he demonstrates and discusses many of the signature drum tracks he created with artists such as Simon & Garfunkel Steeley Dan Chick Corea James Taylor and Eric Clapton. One of the many highlights of the performance is a self-accompanied brush solo on Bye Bye Blackbird. Additional topics include applying rudiments to the drumset and playing to a click-track odd-times shuffles and solos in a musical context. Bonus footage includes a 20-minute Steve Gadd documentary from the 2003 American Drummers Achievement Award ceremony plus a Steve Gadd - Giovanni Hidalgo duet from 1997 Modern Drummer Festival. With Spanish and German subtitles

More than a performance video this new release features four percussion powerhouses from the 2000 Modern Drummer Festival lineup. Japan's amazing export Akira Jimbo displays his incredible independence and command of many musical styles. Vastly talented Billy Ward (Robbie Robertson Carly Simon Bill Evans) performs two tracks from his Two Hands Clapping CD and talks about unconventional technique developing a groove and more. Hilary Jones (Lee Ritenour Dave Grusin Robben Ford) plays a beautiful solo and discusses playing with a linear approach. Drummer's drummer Vinnie Colaiuta performs 3 songs (25+ minutes of music!) with his group Karizma - David Garfield Michael Landau andNeil Stubenhaus. 90 minutes.

This great super pack includes Modern Drummer Festival 2000 2003 2005 and 2008 - 11 DVDs featuring some of the world's greatest drummers at a great price. Over 27 hours of content featuring Steve Smith Jason Bittner Chris Adler Todd Sucherman Billy Ward Chad Smith Don Brewer Keith Carlock Derek Roddy Gavin Harrison Jojo Mayer and many many more.

Featuring Instruction from Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and more-For the first time in print Hudson Music has taken lessons from the eBooks contained on their award-winning DVDs and compiled them into a book/DVD package for drummers of all styles. Lessons with the Hudson Greats Vol. 1 contains note-for-note transcriptions of many of the key exercises grooves fills and concepts performed and taught by some of the greatest drummers in the world creating a workbook that will improve your playing on just about every front. Concepts cover all the bases including hand and foot technique builders odd-time patterns jazz time and comping concepts fill ideas from basic to extremely advanced groove creativity ideas funkpatterns including odd linear groupings and more.These eBooks together present a fantastic amount of challenging practice material in all styles almost like a college course in modern professional drumset playing. Not only a companion to the Hudson DVDs the book works as a stand-alone course of study that will allow you to incorporate the concepts of many of today's leading players into your approach.Included is a DVD containing one hour and 15 minutes of clips pulled from the Hudson DVDs referred to in the book indexed for ease of reference making this a complete educational package. Included are drumming greats Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and all the artists from the Modern Drummer Festival 2008: Will Calhoun Ndugu Chancler Gavin Harrison Simon Phillips Thomas Pridgen Dafnis Prieto Derek Roddy Todd Sucherman Bill Stewart and Billy Ward.

100 Essential Drumset Lessons contains exercises examples and advice that drummers of all abilities will find useful. Featuring over 300 demonstration and play-along audio tracks this informative guide includes instruction on playing in a wide range of styles-from basic rock and funk to metal and advanced swing. Fills metric superimposition odd time playing and soloing concepts are all covered with helpful technical exercises. 100 Essential Drumset Lessons also gives advice on productive practicing techniques and five Drumset audition solos are included for use at all-state auditions music festivals and recitals.

Ce DVD-deux mis caractéristiques près de six heures d'images étonnantes de concert, des ateliers et des faits saillants festivals d'ultime batteur Weekend 2004 l'Australie. Disque 1 présente des concerts par : Marco Minneman, Michael Shack, Chad Wackerman Band, Dave Beck, Gregg Bissonette, Dom Famularo et Steve Smith. Disque 2 comprend plus de 90 minutes de matériel d'atelier novateur: * Steve Smith démontre la valeur ayant une Technique ' Swing ' que joue la Fondation à l'un, et plus encore ! * Marco Minnermann montre une série d'idées, mettant en vedette certains patrons qui se coincent simples et des idées de coordination, par le biais de phrases de temps impair intéressant. * Dom Famularo explore le ' Moeller Stroke ' et l'idée de rebond à l'égard de la préhension appariée, style open-handed. Points saillants supplémentaires: * Marco Minnemann bonus track * Dom & amis * John Reynolds Raiders Drum Corps * Drum & Percussion Expo * concours de meilleur batteur Up & venue d'Australie finales * Extra entrevues * 2002 & 2003... / Batterie / Dvd