Rhythmic Aerobics Volume II is an advanced instruction book which specializes in four areas of drumming: shuffle swing six-eight and odd time signatures. It contains over 200 drum fills plus challenging material relative totoday's music all arranged in four-measure exercises. Drummers who use this text will improve their timing technique dexterity and learn a wealth of rhythms for the demands of modern drumming. Drum fills are also included oneach page. Author Jim Ryan meticulously blends beats and fills throughout 85 pages of drum music. This is an excellent book for teachers with advanced students. Rhythmic Aerobics Volume II was created with material to stretchthe limits of one's capability. A metronome should be used when practicing and try to repeat each exercise many times to achieve ideal benefits. Watch your band mates perk up when you throw in one of these beats or fills into asong! Use Volume II as part of one's practice sessions and you'll find practical material for use in becoming a well-rounded drummer for the world to hear. The newly included CD enhances the book with: • 200 drum beatsand fills to help students become proficient with the exercises. 65 minutes of drumming is added to the package! •A click track is provided at the beginning of each exercise for play along. • Each chapter is recorded indepth • Drum beats and fills were recorded at moderate tempos so that drummers can play and read • Drum tuning on this CD makes it easier to reference drum to drum fill patterns. With this CD you can differentiate betweenall 3 toms in the book. This makes the drum fills more understandable when one listens to the CD.

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Patterns for Drums by Andrew D. Gordon, author of more than 30 instructional books, is designed to help drummers and drum programmers improve their funk drumming technique with a wide range of different Funk and R&B patterns and grooves. Each of the 55 examples in the book contains 4, two measure patterns increasing in complexity. There are a total of over 200 different funk rhythm patterns in the book. Each of the 55 examples in the book has been recorded twice on the accompanying audio CD. The first time through you will hear the drum pattern along with a full rhythm section of keyboards, bass and guitar. The second time through you will hear the drum pattern slowed down to 60 beats per minute with a click track in the left speaker and the drum track in the right speaker allowing you to play with or without a click track or drum pattern. Also available are play-along rhythm tracks of all the 55 examples as .mp3 files. These files are around 2 minutes long and contain the rhythm section of keyboards, guitar and bass as well as a click track, so you can practice in a band-like situation. Visit www.adgproductions.com to find out how to obtain these files at no additional cost. / Batterie / 60 pages / Partition + Cd