A Study In Contemporary Music For The Drums-The genre Fusion as the name implies is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD use four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process can occur and expose you to new musical ideas. With unique step-by-step approaches to developing 'fused' feels that are not just superficial pasting-together styles you'll discover how to create new grooves for yourself. In addition there are many agility exercises to help you reach a high level of musicianship. Each of the style-evolution and exercises is fully notated in the book and performed on the CD. These lessons culminate in a tune that incorporates what you have learned. The CD contains a demonstrationperformance of the tune followed by a version of the tune without the drums so you can play along using the drum chart and lead sheet in the book. Each style section contains historical references and background useful information and explanations about the styles notated musical examples alternative versions and exercises for the drumset important performance tips and a recommended discography.

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations, accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. Each book has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner, and overseen by our Series Editor, Andrew Coxon, who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunity to show off their instrument and skills, with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from.This book for Drums:is suitable for all exam boardscontains ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for GCSE levelis accompanied by a CD of professionally recorded backing tracksIt includes songs by:OasisBon JoviFranz FerdinandQueens of the Stone AgeThe BeatlesSam and DaveFoo FightersMetallicaThe KillersWolfmotherA YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book, along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other songs for cultural context, allowing the student to explore ideas for their own interpretation. / Batterie

Essential Styles, Books 1 and 2 are two innovative book and play-along CD (or cassette) packages that teach 50 essential grooves from today's jazz and popular styles. The books include written-out charts of each selection and performance tips for both drums and bass. All of the grooves have been recorded with a rhythm section and woodwinds, with drums mixed on the left channel and bass on the right, so either instrument may be dialed out. In addition, many of the tracks contain open choruses of comping so any instrument can practice playing solos! Essential Styles emphasizes the most important aspects of solid group playing- locking-in between the drummer and bassist, providing a strong rhythmic foundation and creating an authentic feel for whatever the style demands. / Diverses Formations

Whether you're into hip-hop urban rock alternative dance electronic jazz blues or country drums play a prominent roll in the production and arrangement of a song.This book will help to explain everything you'llneed to know to produce your own killer beats from describing individual drums and how they are most commonly played to MIDI drum sequencing tricks used by the pros and the proper use of compression EQ and group effects whenmixing drums. Over time and with steady practice you'll be able to make these drum production techniques your own taking your song production skills to the next level while at the same time becoming a master beat-maker.

Learn & play 25 top drummers grooves.. Dave Weckl Robby Ameen Carlos Vega Jeff Porcaro Steve Gadd.Contains written parts and playing suggestions for drummers and bassists. Also include Minus One CD for drums & bass.In this book are included some drum Grooves performed by the most farummers in the world. This selection obviously included also the research on the work of the executants. Biographies and photos come along with each and every stage of the work from the very beginning of the artistic career till today. This idea wassome years ago when while writing down a drum score I realized that this could be a very difficult task especially for those who are notproficient enough musically. Drums groove is often muffled by other sounds; nevertheless if we listen to ths as isolated from other instruments everything gets clearer. If you don’t mind my giving you a piece of advice listen to the Grooves and perform those you like most but while playing always try to be true to yourselves.

Quiero Tocar La Bateria by Victor M. Barba is a fantastic book for the drums. From a simple hi-hat to a full rock beat this book explains how to play the drums in a very simple and easy to understand way. The rhythms beatsand patterns comes with nice drum graphics showing where to play and as you listen to the included CD you'll find this book is a simple yet powerful tool for learning how to play the drums. It features many beats and rhythms forrock ballads garage hip-hop funk reggae motown heavy metal country jazz and latin jazz. At the end of the book it has a summary of all the rhythms for easy review. 'Quier Tocar La Bateria' is a must have book from theseries of Easy Music School and Mel Bay Publications! Companion CD of examples included. Quiero Tocar La Bateria del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es un libro para bateria fantastico y único. Desde un ritmo sencillitoen el contra hasta un redoble de rock. En éste libro te explicamos como puedes tocar la bateria de una forma sencilla y simple sin tantas complicaciones y cosas dificiles de leer y entender. Viene con una grafica binclara de donde debes de tocar y como trae el CD para que escuches los ejemplos podras tocar los ritmos rapidamente. 'Quiero Tocar La Bateria' trae ritmos como; rock cumbia salsa cha cha cha merengue grupero tex-mex jazzlatino bosa-nova heavy metal country raggae norteño rancheritas disco rock and roll y hasta vallenato. Por eso 'Quiero Tocar La Bateria' sera tu mejor aliado para aprender a tocar este maravilloso instrumento. De laserie de libros de Easy Music School y Mel Bay Publications! Viene con el CD de todos los ritmos.

All drummers from the very beginner to the working professional will at one time or another experience certain 'gaps' in their education or drum knowledge. Drumming Facts Tips and Warm-Ups is a book written to fill-in these'gaps'. It is not a book filled with exercises but one filled with information that all drummers inevitably seek out. This book gives the drummer advice about everything from tensioning and tuning the drums selectingdrumsticks drumheads and cymbals to playing a groove working with a metronome playing rolls correctly and in meter bass drum and hi-hat techniques practicing tips and warm-up exercises. Whatever the reader's level ofdrumming expertise this book will have something of value. Companion CD included.

A fresh and exciting resource for developing total control of the 40 percussive Art Society Rudiments. Designed to be used by all levels of percussionists this approach will help you gain immediate results in a musical context. The book consists of three components : Rudimental Exercises: Each of the 40 P.A.S. Rudiments includes a collection of short exercises that allow the player to physically and mentally understand how each rudiment is put together and how it can be played in the most efficient and controlled manner at all speeds and dynamic levels.Rudimental Solos: Following each collection of rudiment exercises is a soloincorporating only that rudiment while each solo gradually increases in difficulty from beginning to end. The solos incorporate dynamics sticking patterns and phrasing while stressing musicality and feel.Play-along CDs: The two CDs include selected exercises at a moderate tempo followed by the rudiment solo and musical accompaniment. The solo part is found on the left channel and the accompaniment or both at the same time. The CDs also include ten Groove tracks to be used with the exercise portion of the book. The Groove Tracks offer a number of different tempos styles and feels so the player can practice various exercises to an accompaniment of his or her choice.

Turn those standard 26 rudiments into mind-blowing groovers fills and solos. All that rhythmic sophistication you hear in the playing of great drummers can easily be broken down into its basic elements: the rudiments.Rudiments are the drum language a basic vocabulary of rhythms that drummers arrange and rearrange when they play grooves solos and fills. This book shows you how to apply the rudiments to the drum set in all styles of music.When you start combining the hands and feet orchestrating different parts of the rudiments between the various drums and cymbals on your set you'll start to make inspired music. Fifty illustrated grooves are reinforced withthe accompanying CD; hear how the rudiments sound when you apply them to the drum set. Discover how these basics become the foundation for all grooves and moves including: Single and double strokes Stroked rolls DragsFlams Paradiddles double paradiddles paradiddle grooves and fills Combinations Your choices of accents tempos style and feel are what will ultimately make the rudiments into music. Learning and internalizingthem will help you expand your vocabulary to play creative grooves fills and solos. Use Rudiment Grooves to create an infininte number of combinations in any style and at any tempo. Rick Considine is anAssociate Professor at Berklee College of Music. He was a former percussion instructor and drum set conductor at Drummer's Collective in New York.

Drum Session 10 is set of 25 pieces for mixed-level drummers by Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin with the music written by Lionel Melot. It contains a mix of progressive solos to enable the drummer to play a variety of styles via pieces of increasing difficulty. Drum Session 10 comes with a CD which will help the player to get the right tempo while playing. The co-writers Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin are professional drummers and/or professors who believe in progressive methods to be able to gain in skills and technique.

Drum Session 15 is set of 29 pieces for mixed-level drummers by Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin with the musique written by Lionel Melot. It is the last of a series in 5 volumes Drum Session 10 11 12 13 14 15 and contains a mix of progressive solos to enable the drummer to play a variety of styles via pieces of increasing difficulty. Drum Session 15 comes with a CD which will help the player to get the right tempo while playing. The co-writers Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin are professional drummers and/or professors who believe in progressivemethods to be able to progress with skills and technique.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Rock Number of pages : 104 Introduction to Rock Style Drumming is a system specifically designed to enable beginning drummers to develop the ability to play rock style music. The objective is to develop coordinated independence between the hi hat or ride cymbalâ??played with the right hand, snare drumâ??played with the left hand, bass drumâ??played with the right foot, and hi hat pedalâ??played with the left foot. Lessons include 376 rhythm patterns written for snare and bass drum. The snare and bass drum part is played independently against straight eighth notes played on the closed hi hat or ride cymbal. Four rhythm patterns are written in four measure phrases followed by a sixteen measure summary. Every lesson builds on those that came before, giving students a chance to practice what they have learned and reinforcing skills that will be used over and over.