Funk: Drums: Instrumental Album

The Essential Reference for the Working Drummer. Become a more versatile drumset player! From traditional Dixieland to cutting-edge hip-hop Instant Guide to Drum Grooves is a handy source featuring 100 patterns that will prepare working drummers for the stylistic variety of modern gigs. This book is also valuable for anyone preparing a drumset audition for a college music program or professional band. The book includes essential beats and grooves in such styles as: jazz shuffle country rock funk New Orleans reggae calypso Brazilian and Latin. Every pattern is demonstrated on the accompanying CD so that one can absorb the proper feel and nuances that make these grooves comealive. Recommendations of popular recordings that tie in with the examples can be found throughout the book.

Grooves for Snare Bass and Hi-hat! Increase your beat vocabulary with this cool book/CD pack featuring 600 funk grooves 10 solos and 66 fills in an easy-to-read format. Everything here is crafted to increase your funk chops and provide excellent material for performance. The CD includes demo tracks of the solos and fills to make learning easy.

Rock · Funk · Blues · Fusion · Jazz. 66 Drum Solos for the Modern Drummer presents drum solos in all styles of music in an easy-to-read format. These solos are designed to help improve your technique independence improvisational skills and reading ability on the drums and at the same time provide you with some cool licks that you can use right away in your own playing. 66 Drum Solos for the Modern Drummer has great information and would be a challenge to any drummer. - Joe Porcaro

30 Transcriptions of Popular Songs-Authentic drum transcriptions of 30 pop and rock hits are included in this collection which also features drum kit legends and lyric cues.Songs include All About That Bass Can't Stop the Feeling Ex's & Oh's Get Lucky Happy Moves like Jagger Roar Rolling in the Deep Shake It Off Thinking Out Loud 24K Magic Uptown Funk and more.

Drum Play-Along Volume 9-The Drum Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the audio to hear how the Drum should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks.The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded.The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.This volume features Cruise Ex's & Oh's GetLucky Nobody to Blame Shut up and Dance Thinking Out Loud Uptown Funk and The Walker.

Italian Language version of Tommy Igoe's groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century! With over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents a quantum leap inplay-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk through Jazz Hip-Hop and R&B to world and speciality grooves includingCalypso Baiao Samba Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail with all required techniques a full musical context and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some of the hottest musicians of NewYork City.Beginning drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band giving you a chance to play the drums with good solid time utilizing four-way coordination.Intermediate drummers will have achance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and R&B sections and also start playing some good swinging Jazz.Advanced and professional drummers will find twenty challenging world grooves to master as wellas the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standard charts and the backing tracks are presented in MP3 format allowingthem to be used on Mac PC iPod and portable MP3 systems.

The Complete Funk Drumming Book is one of the most complete presentations of today's popular funk drumming style available. This book takes you from the very roots of rock and rhythm`n'blues drumming to thehighly complex multidirectional funk styles of today. In the Complete Funk Drumming Book Jim Payne details certain subtleties heretofore only a seasoned veteran would understand. While most Druminstruction book concentrate on developing technique reading ability or independent coordination this unique book accurately documents what is hip in rock`n'roll drumming today. The contents are geared to prepare the studentfor survival in a live playing situation. This book is a valid representation of what people want to hear from a drummer in a working situation - live or in the studio. It contains exercises drawn from many differentinfluences covering coordination rhythms patterns and phrasing. This book includes access to online audio.

Versatile drummer Pat Petrillo delivers a concise historical perspective on RandB and funk drumming. Each chapter in the book covers an important substyle of RandB for which Pat provides instantly usable and clearly explainedgrooves. The text describes the history of each groove including recommended listening. Play-along tracks are also included.