Funk: Drums: Instrumental Album

Independent Cymbal Rhythms is designed to free up your ride cymbal and hi-hat playing so you can achieve greater rhythmic variety in your grooves. The over 500 exercises in this book are also designed to develop endurance coordination flexibility and finesse of movement. The book includes: patterns based on quarter- eighth- and sixteenth-note grooves â?¢ triplet and 12/8 grooves â?¢ alternating hi-hat grooves for funk and rock â?¢ syncopated cymbal and hi-hat patterns â?¢ grace notes onhi-hat â?¢ grooves that will work for rock jazz funk Latin blues and techno. These exercises will help you achieve your full potential as a drummer.

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.

100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Flute by Andrew D. Gordon consists of as the title suggests 100 Jazz riffs based on common chord progressions used in jazz such as the II-V-I III-VI-II-V etc. in both major and minor keys. There are five separate sections: Jazz Swing Jazz Ballad Jazz Funk Jazz Waltz and Latin Jazz. Each musical example has a single note improvised melody line with the chord progression At the end of the book there is the chord progression for the popular jazz standard Blue Moon; showing you how to use various examples from the 100 riffs to create an improvised solo over the chord progression. By demonstrating this techniqueyou can pick most jazz standards and create your own improvisational ideas using the book. The audio files are recorded with the flute playing the melody line along with a rhythm section of piano bass and drums. All the examples are recorded with the flute and the rhythm section as well as the rhythm section without the flute and with the more difficult examples the rhythm section is recorded at a slowed down tempo. An absolute must for musicians learning and playing various jazz styles.  

This cutting-edge book/audio package brings the music of David Garibaldi and the music of Tower of Power to your practice room and provides an in-depth look at the concepts that David uses to create his futuristic, yet old-school grooves. - The 80-PAGE BOOK includes: detailed transcriptions by David, of his drum performance in each of eight tunes from T.O.P's most recent album Oakland Zone (Or Music), incisive commentary, photos, a biography,a suggested listening list and more. - The CD with all 8 tracks minus David's drums, allows you to sit in with this legendary band. Each track provides clicktrack count-in, followed by a complete music minus drums stereo mix including the lead vocals and solos. - The BONUS DVD-ROM with instrumental versions of these tracks in file formats that can be looped, slowed down using programs such as Acid and GarageBand and remixed using multi-track studio software such as ProTools, Cakewalk, or Nuendo for further exploration and study. Includes a ReadMe file and also a video tutorial with detailed instructions.