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by Ken Karsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In the pursuit of improvisation (jazz or other styles), scales are the 'palettes' utilized for creating melodies. Often, scales are only practiced ascending or descending step-wise. 'Jazz Scale Workout' by Ken Karsh contains eight measure through-composed continuous eighth note exercises (or 'workouts')...
by John Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective...
Grade 3 Drum Kit Work Book
Everything you need to know to get you through grade 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The Drum Kit Work Book is a series of books that expands on beats, fills and rudiments used at specific grade levels across all examination boards as well as GCSE and A level. (Or equivalent in different countries). It allows the student to use the work books along side exam books or as a structured...
The Drummer's Bible
How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Updated to include 50 additional grooves, this encyclopedic book and two-CD set contains more than 450 musical examples in standard notation, showing grooves and practical variations. Overviews of the history and development of almost all popular music styles are covered alongside innumerable helpful...
Grade 4 Drum Kit Work Book
Beats, fills and rudiments to help you get through at grade 4 level.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Grade 4 Drum Kit Work Book is a series of work books that follows the syllabus across all examination boards at that particular level allowing the student to expand their knowledge and repertoire of beats, fills and rudiments, whilst learning what needs to be learnt at that level. ...
Conga Drumming
A Beginner's Guide to Playing with Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
This book--which won the 2000 DRUM Magazine Readers' Poll for "Best Instructional Book"--is a complete, step-by-step course on conga drumming. It's the book we looked for but couldn't find when we were first learning to drum. We did everything we could to make it user-friendly, so even non-musicians...
Developing Rhythmic Sensitivity
A Study Designed for All Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
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Secrets of the Hand
Soloing Strategies for Hand Drummers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book is for any hand drummer who wants to learn to improvise and solo. Whether you play djembe or conga, the practical hand-pattern strategies explained here will help you get the most out of your hands with the least amount of effort. And whether you want to solo in a traditional African or Afro-Cuban...
by David Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Learning to play Drums is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast!
Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine to...
by Michael Drake
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Indigenous shamanic peoples of diverse cultures have gathered in community drumming circles for thousands of years. Although most of us did not grow up in an indigenous shamanic tradition, we can still tap into the healing power of shamanic drumming. Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience, shamanic...
by Rick Mattingly, Rod Morgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
(Percussion). This beginning- to intermediate-level book contains hundreds of practical, usable beats and fills. It teaches how to apply a variety of patterns and grooves to the actual performance of songs. The audio includes demos and 14 play-along tracks covering rock, blues and pop styles, with detailed...
World-Beat & Funk Grooves
Playing a Drumset the Easy Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
If you've got a drumset and you know how to make the basic strokes, you're ready to get started. This book uses an ingenious method that makes complex rhythms magically emerge out of simple sequences of body movements. Within days you'll be playing world-beat and funk grooves that usually take months...
Double Bass Drumming Explained Part 2
The Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Expand and improve your double bass drumming abilities with this collection of beats and exercises designed to utilize the skills featured in the first Double Bass Drumming Explained book. Once you know the right techniques, the next step is to apply them to key exercises and real-world double bass...
Drum Kit Secrets
52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers,...