Rock Etudes For Drum Set is the companion book to Etudes For Drum Set. In this book, three and four-way coordination between the snare, hi-hat and bass drum is featured within the highly practical framework of a steady rock cymbal rhythm. Most of the etudes are four to eight lines in duration, and meant to be read from start to finish without stopping. Preparatory exercises precede most of the etudes, and these exercises do just that - prepare you for the coordinated rhythmic patterns found within a particular etude.

This enjoyable and challenging exercise system will elevate your body to entirely new levels of coordination and independence on the drumset. With the use of ostinatos, you will work your way, step by step, through a well-organized system of common patterns and rhythms for each hand and foot. Not only will Drumset Coordination unlock your muscles, it will open your mind to many new possibilities of drumset playing and will help you realize your full musical potential. A unique and efficient approach to building drumset control and confidence, this book is a must-have for the serious drummer.

Among the many useful topics addressed in this package are the basic role of the drummer, the concept of pocket, learning basic song form, versatility (being able to play various styles), soloing in a musical situation, playing with a click, working with electronics, and conducting business professionally. These discussions are aimed at players of all levels who want to get more and better gigs. There are also informative and useful sections dealing with playing ballads, getting good tone from your drums, working with a group, and dealing with different types of gigs, from clubs to bus tours to sessions. Interspersed among the educational segments are killer performances from Gorden and his group, The E&G Band, playing various song styles and grooves. There are also interview/advice segments from other famous working drummers, including Aaron Spears, Russ Miller, Will Kennedy, and a segment with jazz/fusion great George Duke, who also performs with Gorden. Produced by Campbell and Eric Dorris (filmmaker behind Todd Sucherman's great DVDs) and released on the Hudson Ltd. label, the main program of the DVD runs approximately one hour and 45 minutes, and is followed by extensive bonus footage including a detailed tour of Gorden's gear (with explanations of the instruments) and a lengthy interview highlighting Gorden's childhood, development, career, and more. Campbell's resume – which includes Earth. Wind, and Fire; George Duke; Jessica Simpson; Ne-Yo; Whitney Houston; The American Idol Tour; Mary J. Blige; and Jonathan Butler – clearly illustrates his qualifications for creating such a DVD. The program contains advice and discussion on career-related topics often overlooked on other DVDs, as well as lots of great playing.

Percussive Notes calls Drumcraft “very thorough and well sequenced” and Modern Drummer says it's “useful and a heck of a lot of fun!” Author Andy Ziker bases his unique new beginning method on his many years of playing and teaching experience. He covers these topics in detail: how to practice; drumset vocabulary; techniques for hands and feet; sticking options; reading, writing & playing rhythms; beginning patterns; rock beats & fills; and much more. The two accompanying CDs let students hear all of the examples. They are playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recordings to any tempo without changing the pitch – perfect for learning!

The follow-up to Intro to Polyrhtyhms, a method for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition, looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see, sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Metric Modulation will greatly improve the student’s improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue. The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists, bassists and drummers. The included DVD demonstrates of all the material from the book, including improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg. Transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms are included. The DVD musical examples can be watched, and played along to. Standard notation.

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Left hand; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) Hi-hat - Left foot. The author clearly states his goals in writing this book: "It is my sincere wish that the materials presented in [this] text will be of considerable help in developing musical approach to the coordination skills demanded of today's drummer." -John Pickering

Basic Drum Technique And Beyond is a companion study to the book Basic Drumming. In Basic Drumming all areas are covered, from reading, to rock and jazz, to solos, etc. tailored towards the beginning to intermediate student. Basic Drum Technique And Beyond, on the other hand, is intended for intermediate to advanced and professional players, and deals exclusively with the development of practically every aspect of technique. The extensive and in-depth presentation makes it a virtual reference book on the topic.

Hand Technique & Rudiments features clips of some of the world's most famous and popular drummers discussing and demonstrating various aspects of hand technique and their approach to the rudiments. Many useful and challenging warm-up exercises and rudimental hand patterns (on both pad and drumset) are included. These clips will provide excellent practice material for both drumset and marching players. Featured are Steve Gadd (Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Chick Corea), Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting), Steve Smith (Journey, Vital Information), Tommy Igoe (The Birdland Big Band), Todd Sucherman (Styx), Jeff Queen (DCI snare champion, Blast!), David Garibaldi (Tower of Power), Jim Riley (Rascal Flatts), Aaron Spears (Usher, American Idol Tour), Pat Petrillo (Gloria Gaynor, Patti LaBelle), Thomas Lang (Stork, Gianna Nannini), John Blackwell (Prince, Justin Timberlake), Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheney), and Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall). The program is hosted by drum corps legend Dennis DeLucia, who introduces the various clips, which have been selected specifically for their educational value. Priced affordably and containing a wealth of previously released material from the Hudson Music catalog, the titles in the Ultimate Drum Lessons series have proven to be very popular with drummers. In response to customer comments, the clips on these new releases have been chosen specifically for their educational/instructional content (less concert performances and more actual lessons). 1 hour, 51 minutes.

Playing a hi-hat splash here and there, on an upbeat or a downbeat, is not too difficult. However, producing a splash at various positions along the beat, and integrating the splash with bass kicks as well as off-beat accents on the snare drum, is a major problem. Splashdown is an in-depth study which deals with this problem. Essentially, it is a study of four-way coordination with hi-hat splashes as the major focus.

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Drumsense Volume 2 introduces the student to a basic jazz beat, with triplet fills from Drumsense Volume 1 revisited but with hi hat keeping time. The book includes a chapter on ""jazz independence"" (i.e. snare or bass drum against jazz ride cymbal) which never gets too difficult and is musical and fun for the beginner. The book also covers subdivided 16th note rolls, but with hi hat timekeeping, which gets quite challenging, and a section on basic stroke technique: accents, taps, down and up strokes. Overall, the emphasis of Drumsense Volume 2 is on timekeeping (hi hat with foot) and technique (basic strokes).

Drumsense Volume 1 is aimed at beginners and takes the student through 11 basic rock beats and applies 5 hi hat disciplines, creating 55 rock co-ordinations. In this way, the student is introduced to foundational techniques that any beginner should master. The chapter relating to "fills" shows the student several subdivisions of a 16th note roll, ranging from simple to very syncopated, and gets the student to orchestrate these subdivisions in different ways across the kit, toms, and cymbals. This is done in straight feel, and then a section devoted to shuffle feel. Chapter 3 shows basic rudiments including single and double stroke rolls, 5 - 15 stroke rolls, and paradiddles. Finally, there is a drum solo comprised entirely of beats and fills found within the book itself. Drumsense Volume 1 is regarded by many teachers as the clearest and most contemporary beginner’s book around, with the concepts of phrasing and orchestration forming the basis for the Drumsense Teaching Programme.

This book contains all you need for your Trinity Rock & Pop Drums Grade 8 exam - songs, performance tips, technical support, supporting skills and a group song for those in a band - together with a CD of demo and backing tracks. Whether you are self-taught or taking lessons, learning for fun or you have a view to a career in music, Trinity College London Rock & Pop exams will help you to achieve your ambitions. Available for Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards and Vocals, from Initial (beginner) to Grade 8 (advanced), these exams cover a wide variety of music and artists - giving a great choice in all rock and pop styles.

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Taking Center Stage is the definitive print retrospective and musical documentation of the career of one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, Neil Peart of Rush. Originally conceived as a companion to the groundbreaking 2011 3-disc DVD set of the same name, this book combines astonishingly detailed musical transcriptions, historical writing, instructional text, and a beautiful collection of photographs to create a book that every drummer and every fan of Neil and Rush will want to add to their collection. At the heart of the book are note-for-note musical transcriptions of 17 songs that are included on the Taking Center Stage DVD. These transcriptions are exclusive to this book, since they are taken from the performances on the DVD, documenting how Neil currently approaches the songs. Some of the tracks included are “Tom Sawyer,” “Red Barchetta,” “The Spirit of Radio,” “Free Will,” “Subdivisions,” “Time Stand Still,” “Marathon,” “La Villa Strangiato,” “The Trees,” “Caravan,” “BU2B,” “Far Cry,” and many others. But this is much more than a mere transcription book. The book is divided into chapters corresponding to each and every Rush tour from the time Neil joined the band in 1975, up to the present. Each of these chapters contains extensive text discussing the musical approach of the band at the time, the construction of the drum parts, and Neil's set up. Accompanying this are exquisitely detailed diagrams of each of Neil's drumsets, produced after extensive research into the exact instruments that were used on every tour. Tying everything together is a beautiful collection of dozens of photographs taken over the past 30 years, including exclusive shots from the archives of Fin Costello and Andrew McNauhgtan, which show Neil and his drums in vivid detail. The book also contains color reproductions of just about every drum company advertisement that featured Neil during his career. Written, transcribed, and researched by well-known drummer, author, and educator Joe Bergamini (who also co-produced and appeared in the DVD), and overseen and edited by Neil himself, Taking Center Stage: A Lifetime of Live Performance is the most complete, accurate, and definitive work on Neil Peart's career as a drummer.

This long-awaited collection features beautiful solo arrangements for skilled intermediate to professional performers on the four-mallet vibraphone. Includes 17 popular standards, complete with performance notes for each to enhance your knowledge and technical ability. Songs: All the Things You Are

A 10-minute work for marimba quartet in two contrasting movements. Recorded by Brett Dietz with members of the Hamiruge ensemble, Louisiana State University. New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.

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Originally for Choir, String Quartet, Percussion & Organ, with text from Leaves Of Grass. Found here arranged for SATB and Piano accompaniment. New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.

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A quartet of top-notch arrangers from Word Music have put together this fourth volume perfect for a medium-voice solo with keyboard in your next worship service. Songs include: All the Way My Savior Leads Me

Jacob Druckman's Reflection on the Nature of Water has become one of the standard 4-mallet marimba solos in the contemporary marimba literature. This master class, written by the person it was composed for, Dan Druckman, the composer's son - Associate Principal Percussionist of the New York Philharmonic - provides a unique insight into the complexities of this monumental work. This analysis of Reflections includes:

Composed to a poem by blind Mezzo-Soprano Laurie Rubin, Do You Dream in Color is both a personal memoir and a celebration of the human spirit. New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.