Percussion category: 112 books

"Learn to Play Drumset WITHOUT a Drumset! For KIDS who want to play drums and the ADULTS who always wished they had. Here is your chance! Master drummer percussionist Reid DeFever shares his joy of drumming in this new instructional book. Learn: How to make a make-shift drumset how...

Bill Woods has used his decades of experience as a successful bodhrán performer and teacher to create this instruction book for the beginning bodhrán player. Using photographs, text, and audio examples, it takes you in easy steps from holding the bodhrán and stick through playing...

The book includes one Brazilian Samba inspired song written for djembes. Instructors can add their own style of teaching whilst using the book as a guide and select parts in a pick and mix format to construct one lesson plan. Whether you are teaching a small group of adults  or a large...

Pocket change is a concept of approaching playing music to build a long,stable career.As a musician the intent is sometimes to rein as an individual.Longevity and stability are based on being versatile and adapting to the contemporary styles.In order to stay on top of the working ladder,one must alter...

Absolute Beginners: Electronic Drums is a comprehensive introduction to playing the Electronic Drums, from setting up your equipment, posture, the history of the instrument and playing your very first grooves and beats. This book aims to get you playing the drums as swiftly and easily as possible.Covering...

The Steve Gadd drumming transcriptions book honors the talents of one of the greatest drummers in the entire world: the amazing Steve Gadd. The book includes thirty stylistically varying transcriptions. It is a note for note, very accurate interpretation of Steve Gadd's style of playing the drums....

The didgeridoo is an ancient instrument of the Aborigines of Australia, but the discovery of its rhythmic and harmonic richness has only been in the West for a few years. This work gives all the essential advice needed to test, appreciate and buy a didgeridoo. The many exercises and sound samples...

IF YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE DRUM SET, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! BEGINNING DRUM SET will help you learn the three basic beats most common in popular music today. The lessons that follow are the words and the visuals I would say and show a beginning drum set student. Start with the...

For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset...

Over 400 rhythm patterns presented in 4 different time signatures. Each time signature has three sections: the first covers one bar phrases, section two looks at 2 bar phrases and lastly, the third section covers 4 bar phrases. You should always try to expand your knowledge and playing abilities and learning new time signatures is one way.

In this book, author Rob Cook gives the complete history of the Rogers Drum Company, whose drums, in the words of Not-So-Modern Drummer editor John Aldridge, were “the Cadillac of the 1960s...(whose) innovations in hardware design have been copied by almost every drum manufacturer in existence.”...

Blues Drums Play-Along Trax, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting play-along that contains the most common grooves used in blues bands today. All of the examples are minus the drums. You can place in whichever drum pattern you feel is appropriate or use the recommended notated...

Blues Drums, 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 Blues Drumming; Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound; Exercises for Development of Technique (Sticking...

This 208-page book is the first systematic, comprehensive approach to learning about rhythm. It's for any drummer or other musician playing any style of music. It organizes and analyzes hundreds of African and Afro-Cuban patterns to give you a deeper understanding of rhythmic structure. It also teaches...