Blues Drums Method within the School of the Blues Lesson Series contains over 250 examples of blues Drum patterns and technique-building exercises! Subjects covered in this book are: The History of BluesDrumming; Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound; Exercises for Development of Technique (Sticking and foot patterns specific to playing blues); Blues Shuffles and Swing Beats Slow Blues Ballads and the Triplet Groove(12/8 Time); Blues Rhumba Calypso Beats and Samba Feel; Two-Beat/Cut Time; Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats; New Orleans Soul and Funk Influences; and Build-ups and Fills.This book is accompanied by an online audiorecording of all examples played on the Drums with the backing of the School of the Blues All-Star Band. It is recommended that you also purchase Blues Drums Play-Along Trax to have full-length play-along trax for you to applywhat you learn in this book. Includes access to online audio.
