Drummer producer singer and songwriter James Gadson has worked with the world's top performing artists including Quincy Jones Ray Charles Bill Withers The Temptations Ramsey Lewis Marvin Gaye Herbie Hancock Patrice Rushen the Pointer Sisters Herb Alpert the 5th Dimension Smokey Robinson B.B. King Aretha Franklin Natalie Cole and Paul McCartney.On this DVD James demonstrates and explains the many funk and rhythm

Media Type : Book CD DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 96 Drumming made accessible for the complete beginner! This easy to follow book teaches basic drum set percussion concepts progressively, so that is you stick with it, you will have a good foundation upon which to further build your musicianship. Four learning tracks are presented in the book: Technique- including the grip, sticking, and methods used to achieve musical sounds, as well as the principle of learning good habits from the beginning. Reading-basic reading principles are introduced in this book in logical sequence. Writing-By actually notating the rhythms you find challenging, you'll develop an increasingly intimate awareness of the note and rest values if which they are comprised. Application-after basic principles are introduced, you'll have the opportunity to apply them in musical context. The companion video is included. Thorough and easy to understand, this exciting percussion DVD loaded with useful information. Recommended for the beginning drummer of any age, You Can Teach Yourself Drums progressively introduces drumset basics from setup and basic sticking patterns to rock and funk grooves and fills involving syncopation. CD also included.

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.The Rockschool packs have standard music notation plus great sounding CDs featuring top musicians. Includes full notation plus click-track and non click-track backing tracks on the CD. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!Rockschool's grade exams are made up of the following elements: * Performance pieces * Technical exercises * Sight reading or Improvisation And Interpretation * Quick Study Piece * Ear Tests * General Musicianship / Batterie Et Percussions

Steve Gadd Gaddiments. In this, the first drum book he has written, music legend Steve Gadd presents a series of rudimental passages inspired by his experience in drum corps and his love of the rudiments. Each of the etudes is based on a classic or contemporary rudiment, or on Steve's personal variations. He takes the phrases and then displaces them to begin on different subdivisions of the beat, thereby creating new, challenging patterns from the basic sticking. All of the solos are written in musical phrases that reinforce the player's understanding of the importance of phrasing as a key element of musicianship. The book has been painstakingly hand-engraved at Steve's request, to bring a comfortable and classic look to the pages. The layout of each page was also designed specifically by Gadd to create an easy yet musical flow to the reading. The book is also spiral-bound making sure it lays flat. These features are reflective of a man who has read thousands of charts in the studio on some of the most important recordings of our time. Accompanying the book is a full set of videos with Steve demonstrating each etude using the method he used to write the book: Playing with his rubber-tip practice sticks on a piece of wood. Even in this situation, Gadd's legendary groove and musicality shine through. Drum set, drum corps, and classical drummers will find an instant classic in these pages, with elements that will improve your technical ability, musical phrasing, groove, and your rhythmic vocabulary using the challenging technique of displacement that Steve bases the book upon. STEVE GADD is one of the all-time legends of drumming, having appeared on thousands of recordings in every major style in which the drumset is played, with artists who comprise a literal who's-who of contemporary recording artists, including Chick Corea, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Al DiMeola, Al Jarreau, Stanley Clarke, Chuck Mangione. He is also an established producer and bandleader of the Gadd Gang and the Steve Gadd Band.

Il y a beaucoup de batteurs qui ne font pas leur vie en jouant de la batterie. Beaucoup de ces personnes ont une passion effrénée pour la musique et la scène - ils ont juste arriver à faire quelque chose d'autre - mais ils sont vraiment musiciens à leur base. Quand le week-end arrive, c'est incroyable combien de ces enseignants, médecins, avocats, fonctionnaires, montée derrière la batterie et le lancement dans leurs chansons préférées dans un lieu près de chez vous. Nous appelons ces musiciens guerriers week-end.L'objectif ici est de donner le guerrier week-end le répertoire pour être en mesure de s'asseoir dans la plupart n'importe quelle bande, pour traiter les demandes courantes, et de commencer finalement créer leurs propres listes de set. Cette série est un merveilleux outil pour faciliter cela, si vous êtes un adolescent désireux de comprendre comment faire de l'argent de gaz en fin de semaine, à un groupe de travail qui veut saisir réellement l'essence des visites originales, Week-end guerriers Set list est pour vous. Pour le musicien individuel, cela permet de vous faire commercialisable et utile. Pour tout un groupe, cela devient un outil de répétition parfaite pour mettre toute la bande sur la même page. / Batterie