MODERN DRUMMER MODERN DRUMMER LEGENDS: STEVE SMITH

Timing and Technique Exercises for the Modern Drummer-The goal of this book is to help develop expand and solidify your rhythmic vocabulary accuracy and comfort level and to build chops on top of that. The ?rhythm builders? are meant to build your rhythmic vocabulary and make you much more comfortable confident and accurate. The rhythms go from common to obscure and there are certainly some challenges. As you train your mind body and musical instinct with new and familiar rhythms through thousands of repetitions they'll confidently and effortlessly come out in creative ways in the music that you play. The ?chops builders? are an expansion of the exercises found in Bachman's Stick Technique book although many of theexercises also borrow from the concepts covered in the ?rhythm builders? section of this book.

Now with CD!The ability to move around the drumset with speed control endurance and accuracy is an extremely important asset for today's drummer. Drumset Control written by the founder and publisher of ModernDrummer magazine offers a progressive series of exercises designed to help drummers attain a substantial level of technical facility on the drumset. The book begins with basic triplet patterns around the drums followed by16th notes 16th-note triplets and 32nd notes. Comb-bound.

Par SMITH STEVE. In the new STEVE SMITH LEGENDS, you get a brand new 40-page interview which covers Steve\'s entire career and virtually every band and recording in which he\'s played as a sideman or a leader including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Ronnie Montrose, Steps Ahead, Vital Information, Mike Stern, Hiromi, the many editions of the band Electric Miles, the tribute gigs playing The Music of Coltrane and The Music of Ornette Coleman. We discuss what it means to be a professional drummer and musician, the history of jazz and fusion drumming, the music business, and being an eternal student of the drums and music. To help you study how Steve interprets music and creates drum parts, he gave us eight of his own handwritten drum charts from the Journey and Mike Stern gigs. The reader also gets an in-depth step-by-step lesson on Indian rhythms and drumming. LEGENDS also comes with a free download component of Steve\'s drum solo recording The Fabric of Rhythm (a $200 value) with exclusive in-depth explanations of each solo. For the gear obsessed drummers, Steve gives us a complete rundown of every drum set that he has owned, recorded, and toured with, and hundreds of never-before-seen pictures from his own archive. You will also get over 50 brand new transcriptions. However, LEGENDS transcriptions are not just the notes and rests. LEGENDS also includes Steve\'s thoughts on what makes the transcribed parts and recordings special and unique. Along with the detailed transcriptions, we discuss WHAT and WHY he played what he did. Plus, you get all six of Steve\'s past Modern Drummer cover feature interviews. There are a lot of surprises in every LEGENDS book, and there is a mountain of useful information inside the over 248 pages! This is not just another drum book or magazine, it\'s Modern Drummer LEGENDS. / Date parution : 2022-07-28/ Etude / Percussions

Modern Drummer Festival 2003 featured almost unprecedented cross-section of great drummers and percussionists! This Two-Disc DVD set captures almost 6 hours of incredible performance footage from this amazing event. Disc One - Saturday Mike Orris winner Undiscovered Drummer under 18 The Hip Pickles The Nathaniel Townsley Trio Matt Wilson and Band Steve Smith and Vital Information Mike Portnoy with Yellow Matter Custard and Dream Theater. Disc Two - Sunday Louis Santiago Jr. winner Undiscovered Drummer over 18 The Drumbassadors Nick D'Virgilio Antonio Sanchez Airto Moreira and Shawn Pelton with House ofDiablo. Special DVD Features include: Bonus Footage - including Behind the Scenes & Rehearsal Footage Photo Gallery Weblinks and more!

On September 16 and 17 2006 The Modern Drummer Festival Weekend returned to the incredible New Jersey Performing Arts Center for its most ambitious festival ever. Sixteen drummers and percussionists performed with more than twenty musicians making for one of the most exciting festival weekends in its eighteen-year history. Backstage while these incredible performances were taking place each artist was interviewed at a practice kit. Each in-depth interview features playing and demonstration as well as discussion on technique warming up their MD Fest performance and much more. And for the first time ever on any MD Festival drummers interviewed drummers: SteveSmith interviewed Thomas Lang Aaron Spears interviewed Gerald Heyward Gerald interviewed Marvin McQuitty etc making for some truly historic moments. SaturdayDisc One: The Performances. The spectacular performances on this DVD include: Ronald Bruner Jr. Jason McGerr Teddy Campbell Gerald Heyward Aaron Spears Marvin McQuitty Glenn Kotche Thomas Lang Luis Conte Stewart Copeland with Gizmo Run time: 3 hours Disc Two: VIP backstage pass the interviewsExtensive and in-depth interviews at a practice kit with each of this year’s featured performers including demonstration and discussion of technique practice and warm-up routines and specific playing examples from their MD Festival performance.Run time: 3 hours 22 minutes SundayDisc One: The Performances Dave DiCenso Bobby Sanabria with Ascensión Brann Dailor Mike Mangini Danny Seraphine with CTA Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Run time: 3hrs Disc Two: VIP backstage pass the interviews Extensive and in-depth interviews at a practice kit with each of this year’s featured performers including demonstration and discussion of technique practice and warm-up routines and specific playing examples from their MD Festival performance.

The Modern Drummer Festival 2-DVD package is jammed with both great performances and tons of educational insight for drummers of all levels. The lineup in 2010 included Chris Pennie Shannon Forrest Shawn Pelton Adam Dietch Benny Greb Stanton Moore Chris Coleman and more. Also included is a printable PDF eBook containing transcriptions of select performances and other educational information.