Presented by Vic Firth-The second edition of the best-selling original Groove Essentials features a DVD and companion book/CD package with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players. Students will learn the difference between ghost and grace notes (while being encouraged to experiment with both in all six groove “families”) as well as important “go-to” grooves like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats. For more advanced players and professionals GE 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction interpretation and manipulation- training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential. The DVDfeatures more than 70 new songs covering 4/4 2/2 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures with three levels of difficulty for 5/4 7/8 and 9/8 meters. On the 3-hour 45-minute DVD Igoe discusses and demonstrates each groove in multiple tempos alone and with a band with many patterns shown on both acoustic and on Roland HD-1 and TD-9 electronic drumkits. The grooves span rock funk R&B/hip-hop jazz (sticks and brushes) world/specialty extreme tempos all-purpose hybrid rideless classic and odd-meters. The companion play-Along book and CD contain (available separately) over 90 tracks including every song from the DVD in their full-length versions minus the drums; allowing drummers to expand their skills by playing any of the grooves with a band and recording themselves on audio or video (optional) to help facilitate the learning process. These tracks also supply a variety of fill-in and soloing opportunities to challenge advanced players. In addition the book features Igoe's extended “global tours” that will test even the most seasoned professionals chops creativity and stamina and as a “first of its kind” bonus there is a full-length orchestral play-along track designed to provide a taste of playing in a full orchestra complete with multiple moving tempos dynamics and feels.

Musician Institute-This books explores essential grooves fills and styles. This includes: Feeling The Downbeats Syncopated Backbeats In Between Straight And Swing Feeling The Upbeats Three Ways To Explore And Play Time Straight Time Moving The Sixteenths The accompanying CD contains tracks for demonstration and play-along.

The Patterns Series The four books contained in the Patterns series have been designed to help students in developing an awareness of the types of materials currently being used in contemporary music drum performance. Throught the books many suggestions will be made concerning how these materials can be applied to the drum set. Students should feel free to experiment with these possibilities as well as any other ideas that they may come up with. It is important to understand that the books are not sequential and can be worked on in any order. Also it is not necessary to complete one book before moving on to the next. The various topics that are presented can beworked on in whathever order is the most appropiate for the individual student. Sticking Patterns Presents a new approach to stickings with specific emphasis on their application to drum set performance. Also includes materials for accented single strokes as well as exercises dealing with the use of doubles on the set.

Can you learn how to swing? Yes and this book will show you how giving you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common comfortable 16th-note patterns and adapting them into a triplet feel. The results are amazingly musical and refreshingly creative and will give any drummer tons of new ideas to play within any swing-based groove.Jeff Salem covers many concepts including solidifying your basic triplet grooves in various styles moving around the drumset with triplets incorporating the bass drum into your fills creating interesting triplet grooves using 16th note-based rhythms applyingparadiddle concepts to triplet grooves and fills incorporating rests into your swung phrases and more.In the later chapters the triplet rhythms presented are applied to fills that can be used in blues R&B rock and hip-hop settings and are also applied specifically to jazz concepts to broaden your independence and vocabulary in a traditional swing setting.An introductory section with basic triplet feels and a listening guide is designed to start beginning-level drummers on the right path to understanding swing-based styles.The book comes complete with an MP3 CD presenting play-along tracks in many styles which are designed for you to apply the concepts learned in the book. The disc also includes demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.