Learn to play the drums and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with a newly revised edition of this exciting method from Alfred Music. This edition features an all-new DVD presented by educator/performer Johnny O'Reilly, that correlates directly with the book. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various drum types and the sounds they create, playing basics, proper drumstick grips, and getting acquainted with standard drum notation. You will then move right along to playing different lines with different tempos, rhythms, and grooves---all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical and drum notation. You will learn to play beats and fills in an array of musical styles, including rock, country, jazz, and Latin. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play in a band and read standard drum music.The book features the following helpful resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Technique builders* Daily workouts to improve your playing* Practice tips* Hints on purchasing equipment, tuning and sound modification, drum set maintenance* Plus much more. / Batterie

Featuring Bass Drum Kicks For Rock and Jazz. Par ROTHMAN JOEL. As every drummer knows, in today's music it's essential that a high degree of coordination is necessary when it comes to playing bass drum kicks against various rock and jazz cymbal beats. This easy to read book presents just about every combination of bass kicks any drummer is likely to use when playing. It's the most extensive and in-depth presentation ever written. For all all levels-beginner, intermediate and advanced players. / Pop and rock / Etude / Batterie

Rhythm by the Numbers provides a fundamental and comprehensive way to learn and use rhythm in drumming. Born from the author's lifelong interest and involvement with rhythm and rhythmic exploration, this book will help students become more creative players by developing vocabulary that does not come from rote learning. The method presents notes within a given metric space that can be applied in various ways at the drumset in any style, in any tempo, and using any note value. / Batterie

Par SWEENEY PETE. The first volume of The Complete Drumset series and approved curriculum for the National Guitar Workshop. Perfect for beginning drummers, this book starts with an introduction to the various parts of the drumset, sticking techniques, snare drum rudiments, accents, dynamics and reading drumset music. Techniques that develop ideal coordination for playing drumbeats that are explained in a fun, logical step-by-step manner. So that by the end of the book, the student can play drum fills, cymbal crashes, sixteenth-note bass drum beats and dotted eighth-note, rhythms. Students, teachers and self taught players will all enjoy this thorough easy to use method! Cleardescriptions and photographs show important techniques, effective practice tips for good musical development and progressive skill building exercises combine with a CD of demonstrations and examples to form a powerful tool to improve, progress and develop. / Niveau : Débutant / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Batterie

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

Par COHEN ALEX. Ultimate Progressive Drumming, by Alex Cohen, pushes the boundaries of drum independence and technical complexity while providing foundational training that will help all drummers, regardless of style. Starting with basic independence and balance training on the drums, Cohen moves into groove coordination, melodic phrasing, unison patterns, and weak-foot builders in the early sections of the book. He then delves in to various topics for advanced soloing over ostinato patterns and using rhythmic cells to create complex phrases. Later sections of the book address some of the most cutting edge topics in progressive and extreme drumming today, such as hybrid rudiments applied to the kit, micro-timing and practicing to a displaced click, applications of polyrhythms, extreme independence, ambidexterity, and use of the freehand technique over ostinatos. Also included are transcriptions of influential patterns from Alex\'s favorite drummers. The package comes with over 50 minutes of video demonstrating dozens of examples and solos from the book. / Pédagogie / Méthode / Batterie

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

Media : Book/DVD
Author : by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller
Level : Intermediate
Date published : 5/28/2009
Style : Contemporary
Type : Rhythm/Backup
Description :
One of the best methods for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition. Looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see, sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. Can be used by any and all instrumentalists. 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. a DVD with demonstrations of all the material from the book. 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. musical examples which can be watched, and used as a play along.
* The #1 method for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition
* Will greatly improve the student?s improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue
* Students will learn to look at rhythm through a magnifying glass in order to hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions
* Students will learn how to make core rhythms into core grooves and use beat displacement to alter these core grooves.

With few study books for Drums in existence, Drum Session 14 contributes to a series of prolific studies for the instrument, filling a vital gap. Accompanied by a CD, this progressive book effectively focuses on all musical studies, accessible to any musician. Compiled by Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin , two prominent drummers of our day, and with music specially composed by renowned pianist Lionel Melot , the book contains 35 pages of music in various styles which will enable the pupil to progress in their instrumental study. Drum Session 14 is an indispensable complement to traditional teaching of the instrument. / Percussions

Cuban Rhythms For Percussion And Drumset. This book helps to overcome the various obstacles and difficulties drummers and multipercussionists from the four corners of the earth have had to face in view of their lack of knowledge about Cuban rhythms: Step by step, it offers - in a very skillful and up-to-date manner - a compilation of polyrhythmic transcriptions of pieces performed by most of the existing Cuban music ensembles featuring a percussion section. In doing so, it gives a novel and extraordinary kind of survey of our Cuban culture, a survey that could be compared to a 'Concise Atlas of Cuban Rhythms”. / Méthode / Méthode / Percussions

The Playing Techniques series marks the culmination of legendary drummers Ralph Humphrey and Joe Porcaro's deep contribution to drum set education. Covering the study of everything pertaining to the proper technical performance of music on the drum set, the materials are presented in a systematic manner similar to a college course, which the authors refined over decades of teaching at Musicians Institute and Los Angeles College of Music. Book three covers flams applied to various stickings; poly-pulse ostinatos in 3/4 and 12/8; bass drum groove exercises; category 3, 4, and 5 sticking development and phrasing; more rudiments and rudimental etudes; intro to note groupings and changing note value rates; more diddle, double, and flam applications combined with sticking and phrasing exercises; amd 3-note groupings. / Drums / Hudson Music

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

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 style of 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.