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!

Play-Along CD for Drummers-A must own collection for every serious drummer that wants to learn how to play well with others. This series covers a wide range of musical styles from Rock to Jazz and Latin/Afro-Cuban to Funk and Heavy Metal.These tools are invaluable for the student who can't seem to find available band mates at the drop of a hat. With Turn It Up And Lay It Down you are the drummer on the song... so you have the flexibility and freedom to create innumerable beats with the Bass Guitar and Horn lines without feeling confined by a previously recorded drum performance.Rock-it Science features very hip all new bass lines w/ guitar accompaniment emulatingMTV-ish ROCK feels. Almost 70 minutes of Jam time. Guaranteed to Improve Your Groove. Rock on. Tracks in the style of bands like Tool Primus No Doubt Foo Fighters Jet and more... Check this...

Now packaged with a CD this bestselling book is designed to help players gain an extremely high level of coordinated independence for rock drumming performance thereby freeing all four limbs from dependence on one another.Once the material in this book has been mastered students will be capable of playing almost any rhythmic figure on snare and bass drum in combination with six varied hi-hat/cymbal patterns while the hi-hat foot plays quarter notes 8th notes or upbeat 8ths. All examples are played on the accompanying CD.

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.