Blues: Drums: Instrumental Album

Learn Shuffles Fills Concepts Tips and More from a Blues Master-As drummer for the legendary B.B. King and countless other blues soul rock and pop artists Tony Coleman has spent a lifetime refining his brilliant wide-ranging drum skills and knowledge. And now in this exclusive full-length video and book Tony shares his invaluable wisdom on the often-overlooked art of the blues shuffle. Featuring loads of shuffles styles blues variations concepts tips and much more this intimate video lesson also includes a book of transcriptions detailing all of the main video examples.

Drum Play-Along Volume 13-Play your favourite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along series! Just follow the drum notation listen to the CD to hear how the drums should sound then play along using the separate backing tracks.The lyrics are also included for quick reference. The audio CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch!Includes 7 songs: Deacon Blues; Do It Again; FM; Hey Nineteen; Josie; My Old School; Reeling in the Years.

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.

10 great etudes for playing and improvising on the blues-This new method provides beginners and moderately advanced musicians with an introduction to the language of blues. In 10 solo studies which can be accompanied by professionally performed and recorded playbacks the musician learns to master the essential basics step by step: Each piece comes with appropriate scale exercises tips for studying and practicing suggestions for own improvisations as well as recommended listening.The accompanying CD provides a unique band feeling with top-notch musicians:Jamie Baum (flute) Mike LeDonne (piano/organ) Peter Washington (bass) and Joe Farnsworth (drums)

Music Minus One Alto Saxophone Deluxe 2-CD Set-This exciting MMO volume emphasizes collectively improvised ensembles and the succession of individual solos in the freewheeling Chicago-Style offshoot of New Orleans Jazz. The rhythmic texture is rooted in the swing feel of the late 1930s and the instrumentation is typical of the New York groups of this genre. The songs are popular melodies from the 1900s to 1930s as well as multithematic compositions and blues - on this album you'll find such classics as Deed I Do Sugar The Darktown Strutters' Ball That's a Plenty and more. Includes a 32-page music book containing a solo chart for each song containing the melody line and chord changes for proper improvisational playing ofeach song plus a concert lead sheet giving the overall roadmap for each piece printed on high-quality ivory paper and two compact discs containing the complete performance of these jazz combos in digitally mastered stereo a digital stereo version of each piece minus the soloist and a special -20% slow-tempo version of each accompaniment for practice purposes. Performed by Brian Ogilvie tenor saxophone Accompaniment: Evan Christopher clarinet and leader Jon-Erik Kellso trumpet Mike Pittsley trombone Jeff Barnhart piano Bill Huntington guitar Jim Singleton bass Hal Smith drums

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.

The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues. Memorable melodies along with more Bluesier sounding melodic lines have been created over the various chord progressions used in these various Latin styles.

The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues. Memorable melodies along with more Bluesier sounding melodic lines have been created over the various chord progressions used in these various Latin styles.