Play Drums with Jazz Standards
Author : Adrian Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Drum set music
ISBN : 9781780381909
The Art of Bop Drumming
Author : John Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780898988901
Book Description
Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.
Berklee Jazz Drums
Author : Casey Scheuerell
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1540021661
Book Description
(Berklee Guide). 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 Dawson and 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 will help you to develop a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz drums, and to develop your own personal sound and style. You will learn to: * Deepen your sense of swing and overall timing * Understand the ride cymbal's critical role in jazz time-keeping * Apply the rudimental language of jazz * Develop your independence, via some of the great Alan Dawson's signature exercises and "The Rudimental Ritual" * Play brushes and brush patterns * Improvise captivating drum set solos * Incorporate world rhythms into jazz * Read and interpret drum charts
The Drummer's Toolbox
Author : Brandon Toews
Publisher : Drumeo
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1999151941
Book Description
The ultimate guide to drumming styles by the co-author of the best-selling instructional book The Best Beginner Drum Book. Brandon Toews and Drumeo present... THE DRUMMER'S TOOLBOX! The Drummer's Toolbox presents drummers of all skill levels with the most comprehensive introduction to 100 different drumming styles from the past century. This ultimate guide includes more than 900 groove examples, as well as listening suggestions for 1000 recommended recordings. Throughout the book, drummers will also learn about the history of each drumming style, effective techniques for playing them, and how to break down different grooves limb-by-limb. The Drummer's Toolbox is for any drummer who's serious about expanding their musical vocabulary and becoming more versatile behind the drum-set. You will learn how to play: - Rock: Surf Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock... - Jazz: 4/4 Swing, Up-Tempo Swing, Contemporary Jazz... - Blues: Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Flat Tire Shuffle... - Country: Train Beat, Two-Step, Rockabilly... - Soul & Funk: Motown, Neo-Soul, New Orleans Funk... - Metal: Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Metalcore... - Electronic: Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, Trap... - Afro-Cuban: Mambo, Nanigo, Songo... - Afro-Brazilian: Samba, Marcha, Bossa Nova... - Afro-Caribbean: Merengue, Reggae, Zouk... - And many more!
The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson
Author : John Ramsay
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769265247
Book Description
Alan Dawson was a legendary drummer and educator, known for his work with the top artists in jazz as well as for his 18-year association with Berklee College of Music. This new text and online audio combination was put together by John Ramsay, a prominent drummer in his own right and a former student of Dawson's. The book contains all the important techniques and concepts that Alan Dawson embraced in his own playing and subsequently taught to his students. The recordings include some remastered audio examples from actual lessons taught by Dawson himself over the years. This is a highly comprehensive textbook from a jazz master.
Beyond bop drumming
Author : John Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781576236093
Book Description
Beyond Bop Drumming is John Riley's exciting follow-up to the critically acclaimed Art of Bop Drumming. Based on the drumming advancements of the post-bop period of the 1960s, the book and audio topics include: broken time playing, ride-cymbal variations, up-tempo unison ideas, implied time metric modulation, solo ideas, solo analysis, complete transcriptions, and play-along tunes.
Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
Author : Ted Reed
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457412195
Book Description
Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.
Advanced techniques for the modern drummer
Author : Jim Chapin
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780757995408
Book Description
The classic jazz independence book is now new and improved and with online audio! Jim Chapin, known as the Father of Jazz Independence," has written one of the most popular drumset books of all time. This classic work should be in every drummer's library as there is always something new to learn and develop from this masterful book. Whether for a beginner or an accomplished drummer, this system will greatly improve independence and coordination, sticking, power, speed, and endurance on the drumset. Dedicated to Sanford Moeller, this book proves Jim's teaching techniques like no other."
4-Way Coordination
Author : Marvin Dahlgren
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1999-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457466406
Book Description
Proficiency as a drummer has always come from great hand dexterity. However, with the introduction of modern drumming techniques, it has become increasingly necessary to gain complete independence of both the hands and feet. With various rhythmic exercises in easy-to-read notation, 4-Way Coordination is designed to guide the drummer from simple patterns to advanced polyrhythms. Through the study of this method book, the student will gain invaluable listening skills and techniques that will provide insight to drumming in all styles.
Modern Rudimental Swing Solos
Author : Charley Wilcoxon
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Drum
ISBN : 9781578919970
Book Description
A classic collection of rudimental snare solos, by one of the legendary names in rudimental drumming. Also contains an introduction on performance techniques of each of the standard 26 rudiments. Essential to the library of every percussionist!
