Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense, lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles, from the reggae rhythms in the music of popular bands like The Police, to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called 'toasting,' and the influence of Bob Marley is evident throughout the world of music and pop culture. Drum Atlas: Jamaica teaches you many of the enjoyable and challenging grooves and fills that make Jamaican music so unique, covering early styles such as nyabinghi (sacred drumming that accompanies vocal chanting and singing) to modern styles like ragga (played entirely on digital and electronic equipment). Study techniques like the three-drop, the steppers beat, and the skank, and discover forces behind the music---like the spiritual influence of the Rastafarian religion. You'll also learn how to translate rhythms from traditional instruments, such as the rumba box and timbales, to the drumset. With its wealth of ideas for modern drummers,Drum Atlas: Jamaica will inspire you to improve your technique, increase your knowledge, and make you a more well-rounded musician. The included CD demonstrates all the examples and compositions featured in the book, performed with a full Jamaican-style band. / Batterie

This fantastic new addition to the rudimental literature for snare drum offers traditional-style rudimental solos presented in not-so traditional ways. These Solos are fun to play and are sure to challenge even the finest drummers!Features jazz-influenced rudimental solos-each with flexible tempos - inspired by legendary drummers plus a three-page Rudimental Interpretation Chart. Perfect for contests or competitions!

The second DVD from Stanton Moore shows you how to blend simple ideas with the traditional Second Line to create a new approach to New Orleans drumming. The unique flavour of New Orleans has grown from the combination of African European Afro-Cuban and Afro-Haitian styles that are characteristic of this famously multi-cultural city. This special tutorial gives you the tools to bring character and inflection to your beats whilst staying true to the underlying groove. You will discover Stanton's personal approach to incorporating Mambo Guaguanco Shuffle Boogaloo Bossa-Nova and Samba with Second Line drumming to add a contemporary flair to established rhythms. The DVD alsoincludes some spectacular demonstrations from the Dirty Dozen Band! Suitable for drummers of all styles and abilities. See also Stanton Moore: A Traditional Approach To New Orleans Drumming (Catalogue No. DVD15)

Glen Caruba. Centerstream Publishing. Glen Caruba is a talented percussionist who has worked with Bruce Springsteen. Sheryl Crow Don Henley Bruce Hornsby Arturo Sandoval and others. His comprehensive guide to traditional andcontemporary styles of Afro-Cuban drumming will start the beginner out right and help professionals come up with new rhythms and ideas in this increasingly popular genre.

This historical collection contains 78 tunes including some Civil War selections as well as many other traditional favourites. Each arrangement features harmony style marks and Guitar chords. The music issupplemented with histories of the tunes and drumbeats. Complete Music For Fife And Drum was compiled by a professional fifer and intended for the military Fife in B-flat. This book offers tunes from theRevolutionary and Civil War eras with suggested Snare and Bass Drum parts as well as chord progressions. It also contains a wealth of Fife history and resources. The author Walter Sweet is the son of the well-known American Fifemaker Ralph Sweet of Connecticut. This book includes access to online audio.

Drum Play Along-Performed by Hal Smith drumsAccompaniment: Tim Laughlin's New Orleans All-StarsMany people consider New Orleans the birthplace of jazz. After all Louis Armstrong was born and played there as well asJoseph 'King' Oliver the Dodds Brothers Sidney Bechet and a roster of players to fill not one but many all-star bands. Louis Prima was a child of the Crescent City as is Harry Connick and Wynton Marsalis. The wholeMarsalis clan was raised there and are all acknowledged jazz masters so its reputation as the seminal jazz town has long been acknowledged. We assembled a band of New Orleans' best players for our times veterans all of manystreet parades and steamboat gigs and asked them to put together a typical program of New Orleans Classics. Under the direction of Tim Laughlin clarinetist supreme and led by Connie Jones Jr. one of the great hornmen of thiscity which boasts so many great players they put together an album of must-hear must-have songs that every traditional jazz player cherishes. Hear them now in these perfect renditions. Then join the band on your own instrument be it clarinet trumpet trombone tenor piano bass or drums as they swing through the French Quarter of New Orleans. Includes newly engraved solo charts printed on acid-free ivory paper; and two compact discs featuringcomplete versions of each tune plus a recording of the accompaniments minus the soloist. Also includes slow tempo versions of most up-tempo pieces for practice purposes.

A New Language for Mastering The Brushes-Carl Fischer Music has combined all elements of Clayton Cameron's Brushworks method into one package containing the entire contents of the Brushworks Book/CD (HMP010142) and the Brushworks DVD (DVD17) winner of the 2007 Modern Drummer Magazine Poll.Brushworks is the first publication to ever devise a system of notation for brushstrokes and brush effects within traditional percussion methods created by THE Brushman Clayton Cameron who has performed recorded and toured behind artists such as Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jr. Billy Joel Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera.Brushworks gives players of all levels theopportunity to form not only an aural connection to the materials in the book via the CD included but also to see every stroke and technique while bringing the concepts to life via the DVD included.

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 ensemblephrasing 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 audio available online and an hour long video demonstrating every exercise in the text. Also included are anecdotes and interviews with legendary big banddrummers and arrangers such as Louie Bellson Jake Hanna Phil Wilson Mark Taylor and Bob Curnow.

Talking Drums is a unique percussion trio of three world-renowned drummers who have come together to combine traditional Afro-Caribbean and funk rhythms: funk drumming innovator David Garibaldi Cuban-born hand drummer Jesús Diaz and San Francisco Bay area percussionist Michael Spiro.In this DVD Talking Drums performs and breaks down several exciting compositions that demonstrate the rich rhythmic complexities of this Afro-Caribbean/funk music offering new ways of approaching both hand drums and drumset. Talking Drums offers a unique teaching approach that clearly explains the intricate workings of Afro-Caribbean rhythmic styles and helpsbuild a better understanding of their history and origin.

Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels and improvise dynamic fills and solos taught in the tradition of Alan Dawsonand other Berklee luminaries of drum education.This approach to jazz drumming presents a unique blend of four-way coordination comping vocabulary and soloing/improvisation concepts infused with world rhythms. It willhelp you to develop a deep practical understanding of how to play jazz drums and to develop your own personal sound and style.

In the tradition of the Play-Along series Drum Along features 10 Classic Rock Songs in a user friendly and clear layout. Each lead sheet contains the different parts of a song and the corresponding patterns while the backing tracks on the CD have a full version and play-along version both in great sound quality.The classic rock songs include tunes by bands like Kiss Bryan Adams and Linkin Park as well as Simple Minds 3 Doors Down and Bloodhound Gang. The contents of Drum Along IX allow drummers to play the same songs as guitarists and bassists using the corresponding books in their series.