Develop your drumming versatility as you master these grooves for all occasions. This book and CD package contains 155 drumbeats in styles such as classic rock modern rock hip-hop and rap as well as Latin country jazz and many more popular styles. Each beat on the two accompanying CDs has been professionally recorded by a real drummer.

Rhythm Patterns for Drummers. An extremely useful book for all drumkit players. This comprehensive volume covers most aspects of rythmical playing that will occur in popular pieces today.

Jam packed with performances in this DVD Todd plays along with popular Styx songs demonstrates Drum solos provides instruction on hands and foot techniques gives insights on touring offers quick tips and much more.Astonishing technique power and musicality explode from the various musical and solo performances throughout this DVD. Filmed in high definition.

Watch listen and learn as acclaimed drum instructor Chuck Silverman shows you how to blend classic funk beats and popular Latin rhythms together to create exciting new grooves.

How to Apply Your Vocabulary to the Drum Kit in a Musical Fashion-Jazz Drumming is designed to help today's rock pop and R&B drummer learn the jazz idiom quickly and efficiently. It is an inclusive and in-depth study of how to authentically perform alongside a rhythm section within jazz's popular styles and forms. This package includes a set of detailed charts and each composition focuses on a particular musical form drumset sound solo concept and comping approach. Genre relevant drumset-based rudimental voicings solo transcriptions and simple brush patterns are also presented. After completing this study the reader will be able to perform within a jazz ensemble – and sound like they belongthere!

Groove Essentials is based on the definitive collection of contemporary Rock Jazz R And B/Funk and World/Ethnic drumming styles contained in the Groove Essentials poster developed by world class drummer teacher and author Tommy Igoe. On this DVD Tommy demonstrates forty seven of today's most popular drum patterns including a performance of each with a rhythm track played by some of New York's top players. This unique feature lets students hear what each groove sounds and feels like with real music played by live musicians.The DVD Package includes a Groove Essentials poster which contains fully notated examples of every one of the forty sevengrooves on the DVD.

The Essential Guide for the Modern Drummer-Culled from Bill Bachman's popular 'Strictly Technique' articles in Modern Drummer magazine this book will help players develop hands that are loose stress free and ready to play anything that comes to mind. The book is for everyone who plays with sticks regardless of whether you're focusing primarily on drumset orchestral percussion or the rudimental style of drumming. Divided into three main sections Technique Top Twelve Rudiments and Chops Builders the book is designed to get you playing essential techniques correctly and as quickly as possible. Also includes a bonus section two-hand coordination and independence.

A comprehensive method that first teaches music reading then explores many of the most common syncopated rhythms of modern popular music. Includes practice tips rhythm exercises beginning music theory and a CD demonstrating all the examples in the book.

This easy to read chart makes getting started playing basic rock grooves a snap! Beginners of all ages will be playing grooves in no time using this simple guide which includes both drum tab format and standard drum set notationside by side. Drum tab is currently a popular tool for writing beats and communicating drum parts on the Internet. This chart makes it clear and easy to transition from reading tab to reading and understanding standard drum setnotation. This simple tool will aid the beginner in opening up a whole new realm of musical possibilities and can be utilized by both instructors and students learning on their own. The grooves are basic rock patterns usingquarter and eighth notes. These are recognizable and useful grooves often heard in popular music. This short and concise learning tool also includes easy to understand descriptions of basic drum kit set up for both the right andleft-handed drummer and beginner set up and playing position tips.

Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense, lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles, from the reggae rhythms in the music of popular bands like The Police, to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called 'toasting,' and the influence of Bob Marley is evident throughout the world of music and pop culture. Drum Atlas: Jamaica teaches you many of the enjoyable and challenging grooves and fills that make Jamaican music so unique, covering early styles such as nyabinghi (sacred drumming that accompanies vocal chanting and singing) to modern styles like ragga (played entirely on digital and electronic equipment). Study techniques like the three-drop, the steppers beat, and the skank, and discover forces behind the music---like the spiritual influence of the Rastafarian religion. You'll also learn how to translate rhythms from traditional instruments, such as the rumba box and timbales, to the drumset. With its wealth of ideas for modern drummers,Drum Atlas: Jamaica will inspire you to improve your technique, increase your knowledge, and make you a more well-rounded musician. The included CD demonstrates all the examples and compositions featured in the book, performed with a full Jamaican-style band. / Batterie

A Guide to Reading Music-Whether you are just learning to read music or you're an established player who wants to supplement your reading repertoire Understanding Rhythm will help you understand and execute the most common rhythms found in popular music. Drumset players will find this book useful for developing reading and coordiantion skills. Beginning with simple whole-note half-note and quarter-note combinations Understanding Rhythm's seventeen lessons also covers eighths sixteenths and thirty-second-notes syncopated eighth-note figures ties dots and triplets.

Glen Caruba. Centerstream Publishing. Glen Caruba is a talented percussionist who has worked with Bruce Springsteen. Sheryl Crow Don Henley Bruce Hornsby Arturo Sandoval and others. His comprehensive guide to traditional andcontemporary styles of Afro-Cuban drumming will start the beginner out right and help professionals come up with new rhythms and ideas in this increasingly popular genre.

'Mongonucleosis' was recorded in 1974 by the popular rock band Chicago for the album Chicago VII. Though it was never one of their 'hits,' this driving Latin influenced jazz-rock jam tune became one of Chicago's most enduring instrumental numbers, performed many times by the band both live and on several recordings. This arrangement for steel band is an amalgam of several live versions. It features an open pan solo and finishes with a rousing percussion break that should have everyone dancing in the aisles. / Batterie

Solo in Style is a collection of beginning to intermediate drumset etudes focused on various styles. To prepare the player for each solo, a short list of popular songs in the same style and a full page of exercises precede it. Great for school solo and ensemble repertoire! / Batterie