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Play Drums with the CD backing tracks and the matching music booklet (DVD insert sized), included in the case. This pack includes five soul greats.On the CD: Two specially recorded 'soundalike' backing tracks of each song:Full demo with Drums showing you how the song should sound.Backing track without Drums for you to play along with.In the Music booklet:Full drum score with lyrics and melody line in standard notation.

Hosted by the "godfather of modern gospel drumming" (Modern Drummer), Jeff "Lo" Davis, this DVD will enhance your understanding and appreciation of the explosive power, feel, excitement, chops and groove that make up modern gospel and R&B drumming. Features educational lessons and incredible performances from some of the greatest drumming artists playing these styles today: John Blackwell (Prince, Justin Timberlake), Aaron Spears (Usher, Alicia Keys), Chris Coleman (Christina Aguilera, Chaka Khan), Adam Deitch (Break Science), Nathaniel Townsley (Joe Zawinul), Gerald Heyward (Mary J. Blige), Marvin McQuitty (Destiny's Child), Teddy Campbell (Backstreet Boys, Al Jarreau), Zoro (Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown), Steve Smith (Journey), Thomas Pridgen (The Mars Volta), and Daniel Glass (Royal Crown Revue). As a special bonus, extensive discussion of the Gospel style with Jeff Davis is included! Running time: approx. 90 minutes.

Drummer, producer, singer, and songwriter James Gadson has worked with the world's top performing artists, including Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Bill Withers, The Temptations, Ramsey Lewis, Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, Patrice Rushen, the Pointer Sisters, Herb Alpert, the 5th Dimension, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, and Paul McCartney.On this DVD, James demonstrates and explains the many funk and rhythm & blues beats in his entertaining and enthusiastic manner. This session includes several live performances with talented sidemen June Yamagishi on Guitar, Toru Tsuzuki on keyboards, and Ko Shimizu on bass guitar. Songs featured include: Double Deal • Cold Sweat • What's Going On • Loveland. 1 hour, 14 minutes.

Play your favorite 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.For PC and MAC computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch!

The most in-depth study of breakbeat drumming in print! The style is divided into thirteen essential elements, with each element discussed in its own chapter. Hundreds of exercises and beats give the reader ample opportunity to practice the elements, which, when assembled, will give the drummer the ability to integrate a complete language of incredibly funky concepts into his or her playing.Over 90 transcriptions of beats and breaks provide the reader with a window into hip-hop/breakbeat drumming. Included are some of the most sampled beats in music history – including information about the original song and later songs that used the sample. Also included is a historical overview of hip-hop and breakbeat drumming, as well as biographies of many of the "architects" that helped design the culture.The "Click Track Loops" chapter provides an incredibly challenging system for practicing the breakbeat/hip-hop elements and other grooves against various patterns programmed into a drum machine. These will help the reader attain new levels of tightness, precision, and groove in their drumming.The CD features MP3 files with examples of select exercises, beats, and eight-bar phrases from the book. It also contains five play-along instrumental tracks (with and without drums). There is also a bonus sample library featuring 30 individual drum/cymbal sounds. Bonus Sections include Beats With Drops, Fills, and Dubstep.

On this 3-hour DVD, Stanton presents a historical overview of some of the most important drum grooves in history, showing the basic elements and conceptual development of each groove. He then shows you how to learn from the past and develop your own complete vocabulary for creating new funk grooves and patterns on the drumset.Topics include:using variation and style combination to create new groovesusing rhythmic structures and clave ideas for advanced drum set vocabularyhi-hat conceptsgetting creative with backbeat groovesa look at how to develop swing and shuffle groovesand more.Intercut with the educational segments, Stanton's trio also performs new tracks from their latest CD, showing how many of the grooves discussed are applied directly to the music. Bonus features include slow-motion segments of key grooves.

Over 600 examples demonstrated on an MP3 CD are included in this book/CD pack. The book covers the same topics as the Groove Alchemy DVD (HL00320974) in an even more comprehensive fashion, containing transcriptions of all of the historical grooves, plus all of Stanton's creative expansions and applications of them.The package also contains four play-along tracks taken directly from Stanton's Groove Alchemy CD. These are some of the same songs performed on the DVD, so, using both products together, the student can watch and listen to Stanton perform, and then try the songs for themselves.

Now packaged with a CD, this bestselling book is designed to help players gain an extremely high level of coordinated independence for rock drumming performance, thereby freeing all four limbs from dependence on one another.Once the material in this book has been mastered, students will be capable of playing almost any rhythmic figure on snare and bass drum, in combination with six varied hi-hat/cymbal patterns, while the hi-hat foot plays quarter notes, 8th notes, or upbeat 8ths. All examples are played on the accompanying CD.

Let your technique soar to new heights with eight solos and dozens of exercises tailor-made for intermediate and advanced drum players in pop, funk, and R&B!Improve your independence; find your groove in mixed meters; ace your rolls, paradiddles, and triplets; increase your sight-reading chops; and interpret big band and samba charts like a pro – all while learning how to use these skills in real-life performance situations.The CD includes recorded demonstrations of dozens of musical examples.

Amazing performances, enlightening educational segments and revealing interviews are combined into this DVD featuring Aaron Spears.Aaron performs with tracks that include gospel, R&B, Motown, rock and odd-meter styles, illustrating the taste and versatility required of him on the American Idol® tour, with R&B artist Usher, and on many other gigs.For each song, Aaron explains the groove, discusses the style, and answers insightful questions from the small group of drummers in attendance. For those looking for an exploration of Aaron's legendary chops, this DVD not only provides an up-close look at Aaron's abilities, it also sheds light on the context in which these techniques are used and provides insight into the unique vocabulary that Aaron has created.Many of the grooves and fills played are transcribed in an accompanying 21-page printable PDF eBook. Aaron also sits down with drumming icon Jojo Mayer for a revealing and candid interview.Conducted both at and away from the drums, Aaron and Jojo explore conceptual and technical issues including Aaron's background, his approach to technique and to fills, his overall conceptual approach to drumming, the gospel/R&B scene, playing with authenticity, and more.Special features include slow-motion replays of many of Aaron's astounding fills, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with the Hudson team, and archival footage of Aaron's early days as a developing player. This DVD also features uncompressed PCM stereo audio for extremely high-fidelity sound!For any drummer looking to develop their versatility, groove, taste, and technique, this DVD will provide a rich educational experience. 3 hours, 7 minutes.

Written and produced by funk drumming specialist Jim Payne and recommended by drumming greats Peter Erskine, Stanton Moore, Steve Smith, Zoro, and Bill Stewart, this multimedia package combines a wealth of practical ideas with modern technology to make it easier and more intuitive for drummers to learn new grooves and an essential drumming style.It includes a book with fully notated transcriptions and tips plus two DVDs with more than 200 QuickTime video and MP3 audio clips. In creating this package, Payne composed and video-recorded the grooves before transcribing them. The first half of the book, Sections 1 through 14, is organized in a sequential manner; moving from simple grooves to more advanced permutations. Sections 15 through 21 present additional patterns in a more organic and sometimes random progression.To further facilitate the "multi-sensory" learning process, many of the beats are shown in both slow and fast versions. The speed of video loops can be further reduced using the standard software in QuickTime, which is very helpful for teachers and students.Although Payne has included beats that support the development of specific techniques that are required to correctly and comfortably perform contemporary funk drumming patterns, another progressive aspect of the project is its relative lack of purely technical exercises.

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.

Funk innovator David Garibaldi returns with a DVD companion to his best-selling Hudson book The Code Of Funk. David performs three tracks on the DVD from The Code Of Funk and explains how to use the multimedia files that are included in the book/audio package. He also demonstrates the grooves from the songs in the book and describes in detail the origin and development of each one. In addition, David explores the core principles of his hugely influential style.In a separate section of the DVD he explains some of the primary topics found in his groundbreaking book Future Sounds. There are also video demonstrations of 'Stretch That Groove' - a series of articles written by David for Modern Drummer magazine, an entire section on odd groupings, and much more.Although the DVD is based on concepts contained in David's books, it also works easily as a stand-alone teaching tool. A 47 page printable PDF eBook is included, which covers all the topics found on the DVD, and includes full transcriptions of each of the songs. Additional segments are available for download.Whether used as a study companion to The Code Of Funk, or as a stand-alone educational resource, this DVD represents another important educational product from David Garibaldi and Hudson Music.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 for his work with Parliament Funkadelic, Jerome Brailey is a true legend and in this program he teaches you his best kept secrets.Learn how to play Funk grooves with staccato and legato feels, Hip-Hop using straighter figures and the side stick, New Orleans Second Line influenced Funk, and more!Jerome reveals his famous ghost stroke technique and teaches you syncopated bass drum patterns, linear grooves, how to isolate the high hat, use drop-outs to create space and various textures.

John Blackwell brings his R&B/Funk/Pop drumming mastery to this enlightening educational DVD. Filmed in front of a live audience, John demonstrates the musical skills that habe made him the drummer of choice for artists such as Prince, Patti LaBelle, and Justin Timberlake. John performs his original compositions with a burning band: Gary Grainger on Bass, Mike Scott on Guitar, and Corey Bernhard on Keyboards. Interspersed among the performances, John touches on topics including grooving/playing in the pocket, foot technique, and showmanship, along with extensive commentary and demonstrations of the grooves and concepts that have influenced him. Also featured is special guest Marcus Williams, John's teacher, who leads an extensive master class segment on his amazing foot technique and soloing concepts. Also includes a PDF eBook containing transcriptions of John's grooves, as well as other educational material. Also includes Spanish and German translations.

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Patterns for Drums by Andrew D. Gordon, author of more than 30 instructional books, is designed to help drummers and drum programmers improve their funk drumming technique with a wide range of different Funk and R&B patterns and grooves. Each of the 55 examples in the book contains 4, two measure patterns increasing in complexity. There are a total of over 200 different funk rhythm patterns in the book. Each of the 55 examples in the book has been recorded twice on the accompanying audio CD. The first time through you will hear the drum pattern along with a full rhythm section of keyboards, bass and guitar. The second time through you will hear the drum pattern slowed down to 60 beats per minute with a click track in the left speaker and the drum track in the right speaker allowing you to play with or without a click track or drum pattern. Also available are play-along rhythm tracks of all the 55 examples as .mp3 files. These files are around 2 minutes long and contain the rhythm section of keyboards, guitar and bass as well as a click track, so you can practice in a band-like situation. Visit www.adgproductions.com to find out how to obtain these files at no additional cost.

Transcriptions of over 100 famous drum set rhythms from the classic funk, R&B and soul tunes of the '60s & 70's. Jim Payne brings you accurate transcriptions of the funkiest and soulful beats featuring master exponents of the art such as Mike Clark, George Brown, David Garibaldi and the drummers of James Brown. The accompanying 90 track CD features the author playing many of the rhythms transcribed in the book and is an extremely useful educational tool!

The genre Fusion, as the name implies, is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD use four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process can occur and expose you to new musical ideas. With unique step-by-step approaches to developing 'fused' feels that are not just superficial pasting-together styles, you'll discover how to create new grooves for yourself. In addition, there are many agility exercises to help you reach a high level of musicianship. Each of the style-evolution and exercises is fully notated in the book and performed on the CD. These lessons culminate in a tune that incorporates what you have learned. The CD contains a demonstration performance of the tune, followed by a version of the tune without the drums so you can play along, using the drum chart and lead sheet in the book. Each style section contains historical references and background, useful information and explanations about the styles, notated musical examples, alternative versions and exercises for the drumset, important performance tips, and a recommended discography.

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This cutting-edge book and audio package brings the drumming 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. Includes: Eighty page book with 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. A 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. Two bonus DVD-ROMs 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.

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Discover a wealth of grooves, fills and patterns that will fill your playing with a new vocabulary for use in rock, funk, fusion, and R&B, complete with a CD of examples and demonstrations.Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin and Caribbean sounds are also represented as Frank Katz shows you how to combine phrases in limitless variations to boost your knowledge and confidence at the drumkit. There are also excerpts from several performances, showing how the patterns and phrasing ideas can work within a complete musical context.

Ricky Sebastian provides an easy-to-follow course for drummers of all abilities that will improve your coordination and independence at the kit.Whether you play Rock, Jazz, Funk or World music, the exercises within this book will provide a route to tighter rhythms and and more confident technique. Complete with a supporting CD of examples.Chapters include:Solo and fill applicationsHand/foot coordinationWarm-up exercisesBrazilian rhythmsLatin groovesCajun and Zydeco