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...

Peter Erskine Drum Concepts and Techniques PDF. Peter Erskine is a world-renowned jazz/fusion drummer. This book on Erskine’s concepts and techniques behind jazz drumming is for the beginning to intermediate drummer and covers topics like drum set up, beats, brushes, phrasing, reading, etc. Includes a full discography of Erskine’s performances. Peter Erskine: “In this book, I am going to share my drumming experiences and philosophies with you. We shall explore all of the rhythmic influences that make up my understanding of music – in other words, my drumming vocabulary and techniques. Book contents: Autobiography Setup of the drums Ride...

David Burge Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse with Handbook (PDF). Learn to recognize EXACT tones – BY EAR! The #1 best-selling ear training method, as seen in major music magazines for 20 years and verified by research at two leading universities.  The Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse contains 8 audio CDs (or cassettes) plus easy handbook. You will learn the fascinating secrets behind the legendary ability of Perfect Pitch – the prized “super ear” of the world’s greatest musicians, the master key that enables you to: recognize EXACT tones and chords – BY EAR! sing correct tones – without...

Tom Morgan The Jazz Drummer’s Reading Workbook PDF. Without a rhythm section and ensemble to play with, it is easy for a drummer to make errors without knowing it. The Jazz Drummer’s Reading Workbook provides written sequential exercises that gradually add new figures and longer summary etudes, all contained on 2 play-along CDs. The goal is to give drummers a chance to play musical examples similar to what they will encounter in the “real world”. This book is full of progressively more challenging ensemble figures up for interpretation. It’s great practice for learning to read big band charts (a...

Louie Bellson Contemporary Brush Techniques PDF. The art of playing brushes has been one of the least understood aspects of the drummer’s technique, and yet they are a necessary tool in order for the drummer to be well rounded. Although brush technique should be considered equally important to stick technique, most drummers today are only able to play one or two strokes, usually in ballad form. In writing this book, we have tried to give the drummer some new and original ways of approaching the art of playing brushes. It is our hope that the drummer will use the...

Patrick Wilson Teach Yourself to Play Drums PDF. Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now! Learn to play the drums and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various drum types and the sounds they create, playing basics, proper drumstick grips, and getting acquainted with standard drum notation. You will then move right along to playing different lines with different tempos, rhythms, and grooves, lesson by lesson, all while...