Hands & Feet-'This book is designed for the intermediate/advanced drummer to improve musical technical control and reading ability and presents several rhythmic styles such as funk jazz and Latin. I'm not trying to educate you on the 'correct' Cuban or Brazilian grooves but have used this music as an inspiration for different phrashings and concepts. In the notes you can find book recommendations to explore the styles fully.Please feel free to use the material creatively like repeating bars when you feel like it. You can also use the pieces for advanced sight reading but I suggest that you take time to look carefully at the dynamics and stickings. All the stickings are basedon a right handed player (please reverse them if you are left handed).The basic concept is to have rhythmic compositions with basic classical notation and technique that you can play on a drumset or on a practice pad with your feet stompin' at the floor. The first part is snare and bassdrum with hi-hat foot suggestions. Later in the book hi-hat (with stick) and snarerim are added.The advantage of these concepts is that playing through these etudes is very closely related to what is going on in modern music. Especially important for players in Jazz Rock and Latin but also very useful for a classical percussionist who needs solid music training.The last part of this book is a few pages of technique studies and rhythmic concepts that is related to the compositions. The purpose is not to include all basic strokes and principles (there are already many great books for that) but to show you some concepts that I have found useful and special through my years of playing and teaching.'                            Michael Axen

Learn and play 25 top drummers grooves. Second book of 25grooves25 with 27 new grooves plus as much ???Minus One??? for drums and bass.In this second book the Minus One tracks on the CD are complete from the first bar with a few exception for grooves that needs the drum ???solo???. The choise is iby difficulties encoutered by some students to deal with the Minus One drums of ???25grooves25 volume 1??? with the first bars supported only by click. The fact of including a CD containing the perfomarce is very useful to better understand what I haveed in the bookand which might seem to complicate at a first reading. It has been a difficult task and I hope it will find appreciation among those whoapproach drums with enthusiasm. This selection obviously includes research on the work of the perfoBiographies and photos come along with each and every stage of the work from the very beginning of the artistic carrer till today. If you don???t mind my giving you a piece of advice listen to the groove and perform those you like most but while pl

Funk and Fusion Grooves for the Modern Styles-Includes basic exercises for linear playing skills and the development of time feels in the linear style. This book is not about playing beats. It is about developing time feels. In the way that I think of these terms a beat is a specific patten of events that is repeated more of less without variation. A time feel on the other hand is a more general statement of the time which is modified and developed as the tune progresses. In most playing situations the arranged parts of the tune (the head background figures etc.) are fixed and this is where playing a specific pattern is more of a necessity. However on the blowing sections (which are by nature moreimprovisatory) you're going to want something that is flexible and able to adapt to what's going on in the solo. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to develop such skills in the linear style. In a very real sense the concept that's involved here is theme and variations. The theme is the basic pattern you use to establish the feel. The variations are those things you do to the pattern to enhance color and modify it. There are many such variations available in the linear style and we will be working witha a number of thesse. The materials in the book have broken down into two sections: Basic exercises: The exercises in this section are designed to help in developing some of the basic technical skills necessary for linear playing including such things as voice coordination dynamic balance accenting and the like. Ideas: The second section of the book deals with the development of time feels in the linear style. A wide variety of examples will be shown including regular 4/4 feels feels on the set shuffle feels as well as feels in odd meters. It is important to understand that the purpose of these examples is to demonstrate some of the many ways in which linear feels can be developed. Although you should definitely try and master the materials in the book the real reward will come when you can take the ideas that these materials are based upon and make up grooves of your own.About the CD On the CD you will be hearing examples from each part of the book.

Hal Leonard basse méthode supplément stylistique. Le guide complet d'apprentissage basse rock ! Ce pack livre/CD utilise des chansons réelles choisis parmi une multitude de genres rock pour aider à enseigner les éléments clés de la basse rock. Les joueurs apprendront à jouer dans le style de Sting, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Flea et beaucoup d'autres. / Batterie Et Percussions