Berklee-Music - Drums

Enrich your drumming with world rhythms and sounds. World music presents many learning opportunities and challenges especially for drums and percussion. Learning grooves from Africa Latin America South America and otherregions will make you a more complete musician and give you more ideas for creating your own sound and solos.Many jazz greats have been inspired by world traditions: Miles Davis John Coltrane Herbie Hancock JohnMcLaughlin and so many others. Follow in their footsteps and discover how to use these elements to inspire your own music.You will learn to:Incorporate world instruments into a standard drum kit.Coordinatestick foot hand techniques to enrich your palette of articulationsPlay dozens of world groovesTake inspiration from world grooves for your own improvisationsPerform advanced concepts such as odd time signatures andmetric modulationBe prepared for many creative musical situations through knowledge of more styles and greater mastery of drumming fundamentalsThe accompanying CD includes groove examples and play-along tracks of MarkWalker's original music featuring guest artists including Paquito D'Rivera!Mark Walker is a multiple-Grammy Award winning artist who is currently a member of Oregon and the Paquito d'Rivera Quintet. He is an associateprofessor of percussion at Berklee College of Music.

Expand your musical depth and bring new levels of power and speed to your drumming! Orchestrate sticking patterns into drum grooves. Open up and explore the fundamental rudiments singles doubles flams paradiddles andratamacues. Go beyond pattern concepts to make stickings flow smoothly into one another so that you can better express your musical ideas. Master drummer and Berklee professor Casey Scheurell shows how basic stickingstranslate into drum set inventions and orchestrations. Technical explanations and extensive practice exercises with the play-along CD will help you make your fills become more vibrant and your solos more virtuosic.Includes drum charts.

This in-depth workshop complete with helpful diagrams and a practice CD will help drummers master the art of brush playing.It features 10 essential concepts 32 brush patterns rhythm table exercises for dexterity coordination exercises for time playing and signature strokes in the styles of legends like Buddy Rich Philly Joe and Elvin Jones.The CD provides the ultimate practice accompaniment enabling drummers to play along with 34bass groove tracks.

These studies provide comprehensive insight and practice into many different aspects of drumming. They will help you to master a broad range of techniques and integrate them into your playing so that you can achieve greater depthin your grooves and general precision in all your drumming. This book is a valuable aid if you play drum set in any style orchestral percussion or in any other drum/percussion context.