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...

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,...

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....

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...

Sanford Moeller The Moeller Book PDF. The Moeller Book covers all aspects of snare drumming, including everything from basic strokes through more complex rudiments, providing almost 100 pages of material to maximize your ability at rudimental snare drumming. A very comprehensive book on how to use the “Moeller Drumming Technique.” Studying from this book along with additional explanations from Jim Chapin or another teacher, a drummer can yield a wealth of knowledge regarding the use of a drumming system thay is oft-referenced, but seldom mastered. Some users of Moeller System drumming are JoJo Mayer, Dom Famularo, and Steve Smith....

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...

Drumeo Edge Courses Intermediate 4 Part 1. Stop wasting your practice time on random drum lessons. With carefully designed video courses featuring the best teachers in the world, you’ll always know exactly what to work on for maximum results. Supercharge your drumming practice. Play your favorite songs on the drums. Nothing is better than playing to real music! So you’ll love play-alongs for applying your new skills to songs – plus detailed song breakdowns for music by popular bands of all eras and styles. Drumeo Edge is GUARANTEED to help you learn the drums faster with step-by-step lessons. Diversify...

Dawn Richardson Block Rockin’ Beats PDF. This book has tons of cool grooves and fills for the intermediate to advanced drummer. This book reflects recent musical trends by focusing on funky rock, hip hop, jungle and drum ‘n’ bass influenced patterns for the drum kit. As time marches on, popular music continues to evolve and change. Block Rockin’ Beats is designed to give the drummer more ideas and tools to help function in a musical environment that was not only influenced by jazz, blues, gospel, country, soul, latin and funk styles – but also shaped by D.J.s, samplers and...