FastTrack Drums Method - Book 1


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(Fast Track Music Instruction). The FastTrack method series is a fresh, user-friendly approach to learning with a method book which blends traditional lessons and songs with modern elements of humor, wit, and pop culture. Each book includes play-along audio tracks plus songs that are the same in all the FastTrack books so that friends can form a band and jam together.




Hal Leonard Drumset Method - Book 1


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(Drum Instruction). Designed for anyone just learning to play the drumset, this comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide is based on years of teaching drum students of all ages. It includes hours of audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video lessons by drum master Gregg Bissonette! Lessons include: drum setup & fundamentals * tuning & maintenance * basic music reading * grips & strokes * coordination & basic techniques * basic beats for many styles of music * 8th notes, 16th notes, dotted notes & triplets * drum fills * and more.




Alfred's Drum Method


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"Rudimental studies, roll studies, reading studies, actual drum parts, contest solos, bass drum & cymbals"--Cover.




Haskell W. Harr Drum Method


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(Drum Instruction). Now available with CD! This best-selling instruction book was developed to meet the needs of the young student aspiring to become a drummer in the school band or orchestra. Book 1 spans 52 lessons and includes: rudiments * study of various time figures found in every day playing * care and maintenance of drums * and more. Building on the lessons from Book 1, Book 2 covers 26 rudiments and contains additional studies in various time signatures utilizing the 26 rudiments.




Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer


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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.




Drum Method, Intermediate


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A complete drum method containing the elementary principles of music and an introduction to bass drum and cymbals.




The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson


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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.




Rubank Advanced Method - Drums


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(Advanced Band Method). Designed to follow any elementary and intermediate method for drums, the Rubank Advanced Method is a complete course of study, embracing not only a review of the 26 rudiments, but also presenting many valuable exercises, etudes, and musical excerpts all written expressly for the purpose of developing a high degree of technical skill and musical proficiency in the art of percussion playing.




Stick Control


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George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.




Snare Drum Method #1


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