Improve your performance increase your playing power build up your rhythm and control... all with the help of this superb book and CD pack. Learn the essentials of rock rhythms including bass and snare drum variations drumfills syncopated rhythms and much more.

Musician Institute-This books explores essential grooves fills and styles. This includes: Feeling The Downbeats Syncopated Backbeats In Between Straight And Swing Feeling The Upbeats Three Ways To Explore And Play Time Straight Time Moving The Sixteenths The accompanying CD contains tracks for demonstration and play-along.

The series Tutti is for students of all levels from beginner to advanced. Teachers will find listening tests and exam papers covering the work done over an academic year.

Starting now you can learn everything you need to know to play drums by exploring the music of Metallica. An innovative tutorial method that teaches you to play by looking at Lars Ulrich's technique and learning the band's songs.

Groove Essentials is based on the definitive collection of contemporary Rock Jazz R And B/Funk and World/Ethnic drumming styles contained in the Groove Essentials poster developed by world class drummer teacher and author Tommy Igoe. On this DVD Tommy demonstrates forty seven of today's most popular drum patterns including a performance of each with a rhythm track played by some of New York's top players. This unique feature lets students hear what each groove sounds and feels like with real music played by live musicians.The DVD Package includes a Groove Essentials poster which contains fully notated examples of every one of the forty sevengrooves on the DVD.

With over four and a half hours of footage this 2-DVD set is a virtual encyclopedia of drumset techniques styles and concepts!Drumset Technique (Disc One) - Steve explains hand and foot technique in unprecedented detail and gets to the core of what drummers need to know in order to improve their feel and technical skills.History of the U.S. Beat (Disc Two) - With the help of an all-star band Steve explains the evolution of the drumset in U.S. Music - how the drumset was first used in all the major styles and how closely related all the styles are.In addition Steve's group Vital Information plays seven complete tunes that feature applications of the techniques andcomplex rhythms explained in Disc One. Special Features: Extensive bonus footage including alternate-take drum solos a brilliant hi hat solo and hi hat tutorial alternate band performances a camera-switching option optional running commentary by Steve a listening list a reading list and more!

Exercises For Development Of Control And Technique-Joe Morello. This is The book on hand development and drumstick control.Features:Accent studiesBuzz-roll exercisesSingle and double-stroke patternsControl studiesTriplet studiesFlampatternsDynamic developmentEndurance studies

Drum Recorded Versions-The matching Drum transcriptions for all the songs from the 2003 Greatest Hits album featuring just some of Chad Smith’s effortless mastery! The track list includes the hard to find Soul To Squeeze and Save The Population as well as selections from 25 years of the funk-punk and slam dunk monks! Essential for all Chili Peppers fans! Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics.

This is the ultimate guide to the challenging and awe-inspiring world of advanced cutting-edge 21st-century drumming techniques! Designed to be used as either a stand alone product or in combination with the Hudson Music DVD of the same name (HL00320603) this book details Thomas Lang's extraordinary methodology that will help you take your own creative and technical abilities on the instrument to heights you never dreamed were possible and in a much shorter time than you ever imagined. Part OneThomas details his methods and provides you with well over 100 challenging exercises created to allow you to practice technique endurance accuracy timing independence coordination mechanics all at the same time and with all four limbs! Part TwoFull of applied musical examples that showcase many of the techniques presented in Part One. Included are play-along rhythm charts for seven of Thomas' original compositions which were specially re-mixed without drums exclusively for this book and are included on the enclosed audio CD. In addition to the charts Thomas has written extensive performance notes for each song in which he describes in detail how the pieces are constructed along with his thought process in creating his drum parts for these songs. Take a deep breath and come along for one of the most exciting challenging and rewarding experiences of your musical career!