Scott Williams The Funky Six PDF. Book provides a comprehensive method to develop the ability to play the funk shuffle and other jazz/funk/rock grooves that use a sextuplet (or 16th note triplet) feel. An understanding of these feels and the ability to play them well is an integral part of being a versatile contemporary player. The Funky Six is the perfect book for drummers who enjoy playing in the jazz/funk/rock genre, but are stuck in a “straight 16th note rut” and would like to feel more comfortable playing triplet-based rhythms. This book contains basic exercises to create a strong...

Steve Shier Introducing All Around The Drums PDF. With Big Easy Read Notation. The easy step by step method in this book will help you become a more fluent and dynamic player, not just on the snare drum, but all around the entire kit. Using the simple triplets and paradiddles in this book will show you how to develop ideas for your own fills and solos. The grooves in this book are easy to apply to all styles of music including Metal, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Funk and Latin. A great book for the beginner right through to the professional...

Jack DeJohnette The Art Of Modern Jazz Drumming PDF. This book deals with the principles, techniques, rhythms, and concepts of progressive jazz. Topics include improvisation, interaction of parts, meter-within-meter phrasing, cymbal rhythms, triplet performance patterns, independent performance patterns, and much more. Contents: Elements of contemporary jazz drumming Progressive jazz drumming: Overview – Updated Swing Bebop Cool Era About Improvisation: Principles Of Drums-Band Interaction & Improvisation Cymbal Rhythms – Cymbal Line Interpretation Interaction of parts Meter Within Meter – Basic Rhythms Practice Routines Song Form And The Jazz Drummer Rhythm Section Graph Universal Rhythm: Clave Phrasing: Think Like A Horn...

Vic Firth Snare Drum Method Book 1 Elementary PDF. This book has been conceived and written with the following goal in mind: to develop a “musical” snare drummer in the classical and traditional sense of the word. Included in this book is an explanation of the basic stroke and playing position. Examples of simple reading begin in 4/4 time and progress through 2/4,6/8 and 3/4. Also discussed are flams, syncopation, the 5,9,13 and 17 stroke rolls as well as the long roll. Format: PDF, 33 pages Download Vic Firth – Snare Drum Method: Book 1 Elementary free and other...

John Riley The Art of Bop Drumming PDF. Well-known for his creative flexibility and musicianship, John Riley has worked with such jazz mainstays as Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis. This method includes solos, patterns, tips, and exercises in time playing, comping, soloing, and brushes. Also included are Jazz essentials and charts. The CD included features exercise examples and play along tunes with Bob Mintzer (tenor saxophone), Phill Markowitz (piano), James Genus (bass), and John Riley (drums). The Art of Bop Drumming has been split into 7 main sections – time playing, comping, soloing, brushes, more jazz essentials,...

Charli Persip How Not To Play Drums PDF. From Tadd Dameron through Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Cannonball Adderly and Benny Golson, to his own 17-piece “Supersound” big band, Charli Persip has been one of the most in-demand drummers in all of jazz, as well as in the pop genre. A textbook example of how to play the drums, Persip has proven his worth in a wide variety of ensembles and handled the transitions from one group to the next without missing a beat. Learn from his experiences and share some of his insights in this practical, down-to-earth text. Newly...

A Rhythmic Vocabulary PDF: A Musician’s Guide to Understanding and Improvising With Rhythm. This book is a road map to rhythm for any musician. It’s for guitar players intrigued by the rhythms of world music. It’s for keyboard players who’ve studied scales and chords and now want to study rhythm in a systematic way. It’s for drummers, bass players, and sax players who want to groove and solo with a deeper understanding of rhythmic structure. Whatever your instrument, if you want to play funkier and don’t mind using your head to do it, this book is for you. This...

Ray Badness Drum Programming PDF: A Complete Guide to Program & Think Like a Drummer. This is your complete guide to programming and thinking like a drummer – not a drum machine user. Instead of merely providing instructions for you to program into your machine, this book is a direct, mathematical approach to learning how to drum and how to best emulate a drum kit on a pre-recorded track. By following this book, you will gain an understanding of the drum kit that takes many drummers years to learn – and that will lead to more realistic programming and...

Johnny Rabb Jungle Drum ‘n’ Bass For the Acoustic Drum Set PDF. This book should be used as a guide on how to play jungle/drum ‘n’ bass on the acoustic drum set. No matter what background you have, I am hoping that you will be able to pick up a pair of sticks, get behind the kit, and begin to play as soon as you look at the first exercise. This is not intended to be a history book. However, I am very interested in the history of this style of music and research it any chance I get....

Dave Lombardo Power Grooves PDF. A no-nonsense approach to hard rock, thrash and heavy metal drumming by Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo. The book and accompanying CD contain a wealth of material covering: power warm-ups, 8th-note grooves, 16th-note grooves, double bass grooves, riding the toms, and more. In addition, the book includes detailed charts and the CD contains both demo and play-along versions of several tunes originally recorded by Dave with his band Grip Inc. The accompanying CD with this book is especially helpful to provide a further example of how some of this rhythms should sound. This is a...