World Beat Grooves - 18 Styles

Achieve versatility. Become more marketable. Get real-world gigs. Drummer Wanted is a styles book and play-along that provides intermediate to advanced drummers with a foundation necessary to play a multitude of gigs: Broadway, West End, Vegas, cruise ships, theme parks, studio, television, casinos, resorts, and theatre. Loaded with 84 stylistic beats and 29 tailored play-along charts, this book opens the door to real-life drumming skills and provides the tools essential in succeeding as a working drummer. / Batterie

French Language version of Tommy Igoe's groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century! With over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents a quantumleap in play-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk through Jazz Hip-Hop and R&B to world and specialitygrooves including Calypso Baiao Samba Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail with all required techniques a full musical context and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some of thehottest musicians of New York City.Beginner drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band giving you a chance to play the drums with good solid time utilizing four-waycoordination.Intermediate drummers will have a chance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and R&B sections and also start playing some good swinging Jazz.Advanced and professionaldrummers will find twenty challenging world grooves to master as well as the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standardcharts and the backing tracks are presented in MP3 format allowing them to be used on Mac PC iPod and portable MP3 systems.

Tommy Igoe presents THE groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century overflowing with over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents aquantum leap in play-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk through Jazz Hip-Hop and RandB to world andspeciality grooves including Calypso Baiao Samba Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail with all required techniques a full musical context and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some ofthe hottest musicians of New York City.Beginning drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band giving you a chance to play the drums with good solid time utilizing four-way coordination.Intermediate drummers will have a chance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and RandB sections and also start playing some good swinging Jazz.Advanced and professional drummers will find twentychallenging world grooves to master as well as the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standard charts and the backingtracks are presented in MP3 format allowing them to be used on Mac PC iPod and portable MP3 systems.

Ralf Gustke is one of the most exciting drummers of our time and has worked with Xavier Naidoo Söhne Mannheims Schiller De Phazz Gianna Nannini Chaka Kahn and many more. The contemporary German music scene has taken anew direction in Germany's long history of musical culture and Ralf Gustke is one of the biggest rythmical influences of today. His smooth modern ambient beats are now a trademark in the RandB Soul and Hip Hop scene of Germany.He creates jazzy Hip Hop beats with his creative Sound design on acoustic drums and his trademark is a mikrokosmos of hi-hat and cymbal grooves. This superb DVD features four hours of footage including over twentysongs and solo performances that showcase and demonstrate Gustke's style. Special DVD Features: 4 hours of footage including 20 Songs and Solo Performances Aternative tracks in Songparts2 Bandsessions featuring ERRORHEAD and KOSHONew drum styles section contemporary groove concepts Lessons: Advanced techniques for hands and feet. Playalong features Printable LessonsExtras: Drum miking Drum Tuning Making of Photo gallery Stereo or 5.1 Surround sound Bilingual : German / English Running time 4 hours

If you crave the burn and you’re into hard-core heavy-metal double-bass drumming Hudson Music’s new Turn It Up & Lay It Down: Double Pedal Metal combo pack will get your toes tapping and light your feet on fire! The pack features the popular Double Pedal Metal play-along CD with 14 super-heavy tracks in the styles of drum Gods such as Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall) Chris Adler (Lamb Of God) Vinnie Paul (Pantera) Lars Ulrich (Metallica) Mike Wengren (Disturbed) and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) plus an all-new book and free online downloads. Expanding on the success of the Turn It Up & Lay It Down series of play-along CDs created by Spencer Strand theDouble Pedal Metal book by Steve Kilgallon contains charts along with easy intermediate and advanced groove suggestions fill variations and tons of hints and tips. The book also examines and explains the advanced styles and techniques that are being played by the world's heaviest drummers and bands. The book and play-along CD are further augmented by studio-quality audio files of the sample beats in the book that are posted on the hudsonmusic.com website. The free bonus MP3s are available through an access code that is included with the combo pack and are downloadable to computers iPods and other MP3 devices. When used in combination the DPM book companion CD and online tracks provide a complete integrated truly comprehensive method for progressive drummers. Double Pedal Metal is the perfect way for young drummers to get started on developing their feet and hands yet a challenge for seasoned pros; whether they play double pedal or double bass drums. DPM also represents the first in a series of Hudson’s new Turn It Up & Lay It Down play-along packs with each title aimed at providing drummers of all ages and abilities with a fun hands-on multi-media approach to learning grooves fills and musical concepts for a variety of different styles.