Now available with CD! This best-selling instruction book was developed to meet the needs of the young student aspiring to become a drummer in the school band or orchestra. Book 1 spans 52 lessons and includes rudiments study of various time figures found in every day playing care and maintenance of drums and more. The detailed early lessons feature diagrams explanations photographs and illustrations while the exercises in later lessons are presented with brief but helpful introductions.

Par MORTON JAMES. This intermediate to advanced-level book is intended for the serious rock drummer. It demonstrated the obvious benefits of being a versatile percussionist. The author asserts that creative drummers come up with new and exiting patterns from having studied various styles of music - those that exert a lasting influence seem to be constantly aware of styles that could influence their own music. The book includes ten charts, each representative of a rock style that you will surely encounter as you progress as a musician. A companion CD recording of all the charts is included. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Rock - Methods / Etude / Batterie

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Caisse Claire

In Joel Rothman's Rock Breaks Around The Drums dozens of basic rock breaks are shown in various possible patterns around the snare and tom toms. Beg-intermediate. / Batterie

What do you get when you mess with the bull? You get the horns! Jeff Salem provides an incredibly complete educational look at how to approach grooves fills drum part construction setting up horn figures and various other musical twists and turns in 13 extremely funky charts in this book. The included CD is the original Messin' Wid Da Bull play-along CD featuring songs that pay homage to the great horn bands of the '70s like Tower of Power; Blood Sweat & Tears; Chicago; Earth Wind & Fire; Average White Band; and others. The book presents detailed concepts and explanations that will not only get you playing these particular songs in a very funky manner but willimprove your approach to this genre overall.

Etudes for Performance & Sight Reading-Rhythmic Compositions consists of three books - each dedicated to various difficulty levels as defined by SmartMusic guidelines. This book covers SmartMusic levels 5-8 (intermediate) with 30 snare drum etudes for each level.Though the etudes are perfect for sight-reading they also stand up on their own and can be utilized as individual musical performance pieces.

In addition to being a collection of transcriptions of the Buddy Rich solos featured on the Buddy Rich Jazz Legend videos (VH0196, VH0197), this publication concentrates on the specifics of The World's Greatest Drummer's playing. The techniques covered include left-handed/bass drum coordination, drumset crossovers, cymbal patterns, left-hand/right-hand singles, left-hand time patterns, hi-hat work, blisteringly fast alternating single strokes, and various nuances that made Buddy so special. Together with the videos, or by itself, this book is a must for any drummer's library.

Contemporary percussionists Jacques-François Juskowiak and Dominique Marseille compile the first volume of Rythmiques Binaires with the objective of developing differing styles of various difficulty. Containing helpful indications of difficulty the style of the pieces in this book reflect the playing of prominent drummers such as Steve Gadd Jeff Porcaro and Carlos Vega. Beginning with a page of instructions with regards to Drum notation Rythmiques Binaires goes on to develop rhythm and coordination through its inspiring study pieces. This unique aid to drumming is key to all drummers seeking to varyand expand their style.

Description A collection of 120 drum set exercises designed to help the beginning to intermediate drummer develop coordination, independence and accompanying skills between the snare and bass drum while keeping steady jazz time on the ride cymbal. The play-along tracks will help students develop the ability to recognize the 12-bar blues and 32-bar AABA form, two of the most popular song forms in jazz music. Practicing with the tracks will also help you develop better clock time and should inspire some creative interaction with the recorded music. Exercises include patterns using quarter notes, quarter and eighth note combinations, and triplets and other combinations. The 32-bar AABA song form is practiced with and without drums, and at slow and fast tempos with a bass track. The 12-bar blues form is practiced with various combinations including drums, bass, both, or neither. All tempos from the CD are indicated in the book. A helpful glossary of musical signs and symbols is also included.

Syncopation and Rolls for the Drumset presents exercises to help the beginning drummer master the two principal rudiments of alternating single strokes and alternating double strokes or press rolls, controlled at all tempos from very slow (open), to very fast (closed). The book includes various combinations of these two rudiments, in addition to valuable syncopation exercises. / Batterie

The Evolution of Jazz Drumming presents a complete historical overview and analysis of jazz drumming. Designed as a guide and workbook for the high school college level and professional drummer it is designed to be studied based on a typical 16-week college semester.A legendary and influential jazz drummer is studied during each of these weeks. Upon completion of the book the user will have a complete understanding of the influential contributions of these jazz masters which is necessary for any musician to play this music authentically.The 31 jazz drumming legends included are examined with musical analysis including practice exercises in the styleof the subject's drumming transcriptions of both solo and time playing and etudes that examine the work of each artist in unprecedented detail. Each profile also includes a complete biography personal anecdotes from the author and dozens of exclusive and rare photos many of which have never appeared in print before.The book includes a DVD of classic video clips of many of the drummers as well as an MP3 disc with over 300 tracks. Video clips on the DVD are analyzed and transcribed in the text while the MP3s consist of exercises and etudes from the book recorded at various speeds that can be looped for analysis and practice. Drummers featured in this book include Chick Webb Gene Krupa Buddy Rich Louis Bellson Kenny Clarke Max Roach Art Blakey and many more.

Par MITZNER ROB. Drumming in a Band: Stuff you Can Use, by Rob Mitzner, can prepare drummers to play almost any kind of gig. The target audience is drummers with 2 or more years of playing experience who want to learn to play in a band. All of the material presented comes from the author's real-world experience in recording sessions and band situations. Based around ?Groove Workshops? that include 53 bass/drums groove play-alongs, styles explored include rock, drum'n'bass, RandB/soul, reggae, World, roots, blues, jazz, odd time, and more. Within these styles, specific substyles and classic influences are examined, with grooves and rhythm section approaches used by Billy Cobham, James Brown, Steve Jordan, David Garibaldi, J Dilla, Robert Glasper, Art Blakey, and many others. Other substyles studied include bluegrass, New Orleans Second Line, boogaloo, blues, various shuffles, grungy rock, jazz brushes, and much more. The package also includes 18 full-length original song play-along tracks with New York bands and top session players, including Woodhead, Simon Garrett, Dave Ross, Luke Buck, Andrea Capozzoli, MC Frontalot, Will Reynolds, Eric Price, Michael Gallant, Lars Potteiger, Chris Cheek, Dmitry Ishenko, Yana Davydova, Matthew Milligan, John Shannon, Jared Sims, Gaby Alter, Schaffer the Darklord and Miss Eaves. Audio files with and without drums are included for every groove, along with detailed charts, transcriptions, road maps and lead sheets. There is also a section on how to make your own charts. There is video and analysis for every track, with interviews, anecdotes, and pro tips for the drummer from all the various musicians. / Date parution : 2022-05-03/ Etude / Batterie

Studio musician and percussion editor Jim Payne presents this outstanding video on the basics of rock and blues drumming assigning 'singing drum sounds' or solfege syllables to the five basic components of thedrumset.Payne addresses holding the sticks playing the Bass Drum and traditional notation and singing syllables of the Hi-Hat Bass Drum Cymbals and Toms.Introducing rock and blues tunes with various grooves andtempos he stresses an awareness of song form in maintaining one's place in a piece of music. All on-screen samples are written in both standard notation and drum sounds. With the three-camera filming technique making everyprecise move easy to follow.

This method presents a large number of Drum beats along with as many corresponding breaks. They all come from the repertoire of the greatest drummers from the present and the past. In other words reference grooves! This method is of course primarily intended for the drummers who will find an endless source of exciting rhythms to incorporate into their own playing. Other musicians will find here a worthwhile support in programming their Drum machines or sequencers. The many rhythms presented here are grouped and sorted by style: Rock and Metal Blues and Shuffle Jazz and Latin (Samba Bossa Nova etc...). Lastly the DVD demonstrates all the beatsand breaks featured in this method while the CD will allow you to put them into practice with various play-along tracks.