Derek Roddy: Derek Roddy's Playing with Your Drums: Drums: Instrumental Tutor

The Evolution Of Blast Beats offers an in-depth look at the drumming of today's extreme metal music such as speed metal grindcore and death metal. Drummers teachers and students will learn the history and evolution of this underground style originating from the European skank beat and evolving into a variety of blast beats found in today's extreme metal scene. Also learn detailed blast variations along with essential techniques needed to develop and execute these high-speed patterns. Variations of traditional blasts bomb blasts hyper blasts and freehand blasts are all explored in detail. The audio CD includes many recorded examples exercises play-alongtracks and groove loops for practice.

Featuring Instruction from Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and more-For the first time in print Hudson Music has taken lessons from the eBooks contained on their award-winning DVDs and compiled them into a book/DVD package for drummers of all styles. Lessons with the Hudson Greats Vol. 1 contains note-for-note transcriptions of many of the key exercises grooves fills and concepts performed and taught by some of the greatest drummers in the world creating a workbook that will improve your playing on just about every front. Concepts cover all the bases including hand and foot technique builders odd-time patterns jazz time and comping concepts fill ideas from basic to extremely advanced groove creativity ideas funkpatterns including odd linear groupings and more.These eBooks together present a fantastic amount of challenging practice material in all styles almost like a college course in modern professional drumset playing. Not only a companion to the Hudson DVDs the book works as a stand-alone course of study that will allow you to incorporate the concepts of many of today's leading players into your approach.Included is a DVD containing one hour and 15 minutes of clips pulled from the Hudson DVDs referred to in the book indexed for ease of reference making this a complete educational package. Included are drumming greats Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and all the artists from the Modern Drummer Festival 2008: Will Calhoun Ndugu Chancler Gavin Harrison Simon Phillips Thomas Pridgen Dafnis Prieto Derek Roddy Todd Sucherman Bill Stewart and Billy Ward.

This great super pack includes Modern Drummer Festival 2000 2003 2005 and 2008 - 11 DVDs featuring some of the world's greatest drummers at a great price. Over 27 hours of content featuring Steve Smith Jason Bittner Chris Adler Todd Sucherman Billy Ward Chad Smith Don Brewer Keith Carlock Derek Roddy Gavin Harrison Jojo Mayer and many many more.