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.

Exploring The Mental Aspects Of Drumming-Go beyond learning simple rudiments or star-drummer solos and discover the spiritual side of becoming a great performer and musician. This unique and unusual book written by master drummer and educator Billy Ward is a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental skills that are required to be a truly great drummer. Ward shares his celebrated essays from Modern Drummer magazine to give you a fresh perspective on your attitude and approach as a performing musician. Discover what it really means to be part of a band and how to shape your own drum playing to forge your own characteristic style. The topics are punctuated with anecdotes and examples fromWard's own extensive experience. Chapter topics include:How to get gigs Learning to groove Effective practicing Session drumming tips Auditioning Improving your mechanics

Media Type : Book+CD+DVD Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Jazz Number of pages : 248 Inside the Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind drum method that uses traditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazz ensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form, ensemble phrasing, articulation, and interpretation. For each arrangement, there is talk through information explaining how the composition is played as well as transcriptions of key beats and melodic information that connects the written drum part to the music. The 248 page book includes a 2.5 hour MP3 CD and an hour long DVD demonstrating every exercise in the text. Also included are anecdotes and interviews with legendary big band drummers and arrangers such as Louie Bellson, Jake Hanna, Phil Wilson, Mark Taylor and Bob Curnow.

Par SMITH STEVE. In the new STEVE SMITH LEGENDS, you get a brand new 40-page interview which covers Steve\'s entire career and virtually every band and recording in which he\'s played as a sideman or a leader including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Ronnie Montrose, Steps Ahead, Vital Information, Mike Stern, Hiromi, the many editions of the band Electric Miles, the tribute gigs playing The Music of Coltrane and The Music of Ornette Coleman. We discuss what it means to be a professional drummer and musician, the history of jazz and fusion drumming, the music business, and being an eternal student of the drums and music. To help you study how Steve interprets music and creates drum parts, he gave us eight of his own handwritten drum charts from the Journey and Mike Stern gigs. The reader also gets an in-depth step-by-step lesson on Indian rhythms and drumming. LEGENDS also comes with a free download component of Steve\'s drum solo recording The Fabric of Rhythm (a $200 value) with exclusive in-depth explanations of each solo. For the gear obsessed drummers, Steve gives us a complete rundown of every drum set that he has owned, recorded, and toured with, and hundreds of never-before-seen pictures from his own archive. You will also get over 50 brand new transcriptions. However, LEGENDS transcriptions are not just the notes and rests. LEGENDS also includes Steve\'s thoughts on what makes the transcribed parts and recordings special and unique. Along with the detailed transcriptions, we discuss WHAT and WHY he played what he did. Plus, you get all six of Steve\'s past Modern Drummer cover feature interviews. There are a lot of surprises in every LEGENDS book, and there is a mountain of useful information inside the over 248 pages! This is not just another drum book or magazine, it\'s Modern Drummer LEGENDS. / Date parution : 2022-07-28/ Etude / Percussions

The recordings contain two mixes of each composition one mix for listening and one mix to play along with (without drums).Sidemen include John Abercrombie (guitar) Richie Beirach or Bill Dobbins (piano) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) David Liebman (soprano & tenor saxophone) Ron McClure or Rufus Reid (bass) Louis Smith (flügelhorn) and Bobby Watson (alto saxophone).The book contains transcriptions of Billy Hart’s playing with helpful commentary of each recorded performance: A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie Equinox - John Coltrane Day & Nite - David Liebman Ralph’s Piano Waltz - John Abercrombie Embraceable You - George Gershwin LoFlame - Bill Dobbins.

In this landmark video Glen Velez the world's leading frame drum player shares with you his extraordinary techniques and musical perspectives. By concentrating on three prominent frame drums - the Irish Bodhran North African Tar and Middle-Eastern Riq (tambourine) - Velez presents an array of techniques tonal resources rhythmic patterns and expressive possibilities that can be creatively applied to any frame drum.Following each instructional segment there are exciting solo performances by Velez which employ lesson elements and showcase the virtuosic capabilities and amazing versatility of frame drums. Layne Redmons joins Velez todemonstrate compositional considerations relating to playing frame drums in ensembles. As finale Velez and Redmond give an inspiring and dazzling performance of Velez's Internal Combustion. In addition to hisworld-acclaimed work wiht The Paul Winter Consort Velez has performed or recorded with an impressive varietey of musicians and composers including Mickey Hart Richard Stoltzman Steve Reich John Cage NEXUS and as the leaderof his own ensembles. We are confident taht you will find The Fantastic World of Frame Drums by Glen Velez to be a continuing technical and creative resource.

Always wanted to play Drums? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction professional audio and video examples and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to startplaying (this is a Hal Leonard book after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles Clapton Hendrix and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar Bass Keyboard and Drums) include the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So yes it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Includes a book with transcriptions and analysis of 13 great dummers, including Grady Tate, Al Foster, Billy Hart, Ben Riley, Billy Higgins, Louis Hayes, Roy McCurdy, Bill Goodwin, Ed Soph and many more. The tracks cover a variety of grooves, styles, and tempos. No other method on the market gives you the work of so many outstanding (and legendary) jazz drummers. Special stereo separation on the CD allows you to remove the drummer and play along with Tenor, Bass, and Piano by simply turning your stereo's balance control to one side! / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Batterie

sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Metric Modulation will greatly improve the student’s improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue. The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists, bassists and drummers. The included DVD demonstrates of all the material from the book, including improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg. Transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms are included. The DVD musical examples can be watched, and played along to. Standard notation.

Advanced Rudiments for Creative Drumming-With Phrasing: Advanced Rudiments For Creative Drumming you can advance your creativity and command of the Drum set.Phrasing will help you expand your vocabulary by using standard rudiments and exciting rhythmic concepts making your playing more conversational dynamic and focused. First you'll learn a core set of phrases that are the basis for all of the exercises. Then each of the 50 lessons applies rudiments and innovative stickings to the phrases to explode the rhythmic potential of standard practice routines. This process will give you a comprehensive Drum set vocabulary that you can bring to all groove styles.52 minutes of videodemonstration and audio play-along tracks are accessible online for download or streaming using the unique code inside this book.

The World Beat Rhythms series explores rhythmic styles from different regions of the world. The hybrid compositions and rhythms in this book and CD package are influenced by the popular Samba Olodum and Baiao styles of Brazil. All levels.WHAT'S INSIDE: Photographs of each percussion instrument Instruction on techniques used to play each instrument Percussion scores Rhythm indexes played at different tempos Worksheets Percussion breaks Charts Audio examples of each rhythm demonstrated on their respective instruments The Cd contains demonstration and play-along tracks that can be used when learning and practicing theexamples. Play along with a 30-piece percussion ensemble with drumset and bass. The World Beat Rhythms series can be used by studenst who want to teach themselves or by music educators for private or group instruction. ...a great asset to all music educators and band directors to get their orchestras band ensembles and students of all ages grooving together.Joe Porcaro

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have beenthought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Lefthand; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) Hi-hat - Left foot. The author clearly states his goals in writing this book: 'It is my sincere wish that the materials presented in [this] text will be of considerable help indeveloping musical approach to the coordination skills demanded of today's drummer.' -John Pickering