The Book of Funk Beats

Par PAYNE JIM. Transcriptions of over 100 famous drum set rhythms from the classic funk, RandB and soul tunes of the '60s and 70's. The accompanying 90 track CD features the author playing many of the rhythms transcribed in the book and is meant as an educational tool. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Funk - Technic / Etude / Batterie

Grooves for Snare Bass and Hi-hat! Increase your beat vocabulary with this cool book/CD pack featuring 600 funk grooves 10 solos and 66 fills in an easy-to-read format. Everything here is crafted to increase your funk chops and provide excellent material for performance. The CD includes demo tracks of the solos and fills to make learning easy.

Block Rockin? Beats? 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 thedrum 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 byjazz blues gospel country soul latin and funk styles but also shaped by D.J.s samplers and electronic music. Drummers are often called upon now to replace or ad to programmed drums in the recording studio. For liveshows live drumming might be melded together with electronic elements or D.J.s or both Rock and popular music are incorporating so many different elements and styles at this point it?s hard to keep track! Update your rhythmicvocabulary with some ?Block Rockin? Beats.

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Patterns for Drums by Andrew D. Gordon author of more than 30 instructional books is designed to help drummers and drum programmers improve their funk drumming technique with a wide range of different Funk and R&B patterns and grooves. Each of the 55 examples in the book contains 4 two measure patterns increasing in complexity. There are a total of over 200 different funk rhythm patterns in the book. Each of the 55 examples in the book has been recorded twice on the accompanying audio CD. The first time through you will hear the drum pattern along with a full rhythm section of keyboards bass and guitar. The second timethrough you will hear the drum pattern slowed down to 60 beats per minute with a click track in the left speaker and the drum track in the right speaker allowing you to play with or without a click track or drum pattern. Also available are play-along rhythm tracks of all the 55 examples as .mp3 files. These files are around 2 minutes long and contain the rhythm section of keyboards guitar and bass as well as a click track so you can practice in a band-like situation. Visit www.adgproductions.com to find out how to obtain these files at no additional cost.

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

A must for any drummer who would like to play in a band or become a professional player Introducing Beats Fills & Solos shows you how to play great beats fills and solos in styles such as rock blues funk jazz and heavy metal.Each section in the book works progressively from beginner level right through to the professional players standard and all of the notation is big and very easy to read.

For Today's Progressive Music-In this book/CD pack Jim Ryan presents over 500 beats and fills that can be used and adapted for all styles of music. Specialized areas include odd meter fusion funk shuffle and swing rhythms. The accompanying CD demonstrates several examples from each area.

DVD With Small Booklet-An enjoyable easy to follow drumming method for the complete beginner. Explains and demonstrates all the essential sounds and techniques used in modern drumming styles. Includes music fundamentals co-ordination and rhythmstudies and making effective use of the whole Drumkit. Includes 64 page bookNo previous musical knowledge or experience necessarySuitable for all agesEasy to follow lesson bylesson formatLearn to read music as it relates to the DrumsLearn to play using all the Drums and cymbals around the Drumkit.Learn how to invent your own Drum beats and fillsLearn how to playwith other instrumentsLearn to play drumbeats in a variety of styles including Rock Blues Funk and JazzAll of the exercises sound great and are fun to play

Quiero Tocar La Bateria by Victor M. Barba is a fantastic book for the drums. From a simple hi-hat to a full rock beat this book explains how to play the drums in a very simple and easy to understand way. The rhythms beatsand patterns comes with nice drum graphics showing where to play and as you listen to the included CD you'll find this book is a simple yet powerful tool for learning how to play the drums. It features many beats and rhythms forrock ballads garage hip-hop funk reggae motown heavy metal country jazz and latin jazz. At the end of the book it has a summary of all the rhythms for easy review. 'Quier Tocar La Bateria' is a must have book from theseries of Easy Music School and Mel Bay Publications! Companion CD of examples included. Quiero Tocar La Bateria del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es un libro para bateria fantastico y único. Desde un ritmo sencillitoen el contra hasta un redoble de rock. En éste libro te explicamos como puedes tocar la bateria de una forma sencilla y simple sin tantas complicaciones y cosas dificiles de leer y entender. Viene con una grafica binclara de donde debes de tocar y como trae el CD para que escuches los ejemplos podras tocar los ritmos rapidamente. 'Quiero Tocar La Bateria' trae ritmos como; rock cumbia salsa cha cha cha merengue grupero tex-mex jazzlatino bosa-nova heavy metal country raggae norteño rancheritas disco rock and roll y hasta vallenato. Por eso 'Quiero Tocar La Bateria' sera tu mejor aliado para aprender a tocar este maravilloso instrumento. De laserie de libros de Easy Music School y Mel Bay Publications! Viene con el CD de todos los ritmos.

With Online Audio and Video-Frank Briggs' Complete Modern Drum Set offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher planewhile improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation displaced beats polyrhythms and more. Briggs states 'the more you know about different styles and theinner workings of time and phrasing the better your ability to contribute to the music at hand. The clearer you see the parallels or the common threads that tie these concepts together the more freedom you will have to expressyourself.' The music is challenging and suitable for the advanced drummer. Styles include odd meters metric modulation tuplets funk Latin mid and up-tempo swing and fusion. This set includes access to onlineaudio. which is a play-along for Drums with full stereo versions of the music charts included in the book. Sketch Electric Red Moon Home Funky Track Jazz Swing and 32 Bar are recorded with Drums and without Drums (the trackswithout drums include a click track) so that the student can listen and play-along. Solo sections are included on most of the tracks. The instrumentation is Drums Bass Keyboards and Sax. The companion video online:Re-edited from the original masters this video offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. All special effects have been removed and the sound track has been encoded in Dolby Digital stereo. Twenty-oneplay-along tracks CueLink(tm) and a metronome make this video the most valuable cutting edge educational tool for drummers on the market today. This video features complete performances of Red Moon Home Along the Mohawk Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is performed... including page headers and pattern numbers for

LickSamples-In this DVD drummer Mansaku Kimura demonstrates over 230 fills for rock funk blues and Latin styles of drumming. Each of these fills is demonstrated within the context of a song in order for you to hear and better understand how it fits into the groove.You'll learn fills for: straight eighth beats bounce eighth beats straight sixteenth beats bounce sixteenth beats triplets bossa nova samba three-beat bounce five-beat rock and seven-beat rock. Additionally Mansaku uses two live performances by his band PRISM to demonstrate many of these fills in a real musical setting. A variety of camera angles enables you to see precisely how each fill isperformed and a .pdf of a music booklet notating each song with the fills highlighted is on the disc. 57 min.

Description Quiero Tocar La Bateria by Victor M. Barba is a fantastic book for the drums. From a simple hi-hat to a full rock beat, this book explains how to play the drums in a very simple and easy to understand way. The rhythms, beats and patterns comes with nice drum graphics, showing where to play, and as you listen to the included CD you'll find this book is a simple yet powerful tool for learning how to play the drums. It features many beats and rhythms for rock, ballads, garage, hip-hop, funk, reggae, motown, heavy metal, country, jazz and latin jazz. At the end of the book it has a summary of all the rhythms for easy review. Quier Tocar La Bateria is a must have book from the series of Easy Music School and Mel Bay Publications! Companion CD of examples included. Quiero Tocar La Bateria, del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es un libro para bateria fantastico y único. Desde un ritmo sencillito en el contra, hasta un redoble de rock. En éste libro te explicamos como puedes tocar la bateria de una forma sencilla y simple, sin tantas complicaciones y cosas dificiles de leer y entender. Viene con una grafica bin clara de donde debes de tocar, y como trae el CD para que escuches los ejemplos, podras tocar los ritmos rapidamente. Quiero Tocar La Bateria trae ritmos como; rock, cumbia, salsa, cha cha cha, merengue, grupero, tex-mex, jazz latino, bosa-nova, heavy metal, country, raggae, norteño, rancheritas, disco, rock and roll y hasta vallenato. Por eso Quiero Tocar La Bateria sera tu mejor aliado para aprender a tocar este maravilloso instrumento. De la serie de libros de Easy Music School, y Mel Bay Publications! Viene con el CD de todos los ritmos.

Starter Pack Levels 1 & 2-This complete guide to the basics contains everything you need to get started on drums: in-depth instruction terrific songs two professional-quality CDs with full-demo tracks and a helpful DVD! Perfect for students who want to teach themselves or for teachers giving private or group lessons. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CDs and DVD.Level 1 covers: beats songs and fills; all musical styles; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and more.Level 2 covers: more beats songs and fills; playing tips and techniques; rock country R&B jazz blues modern rock funk and Latin styles; changing drumheads;and more.

Absolute Beginners: Electronic Drums is a comprehensive introduction to playing the Electronic Drums from the history of the instrument to playing your very first grooves and beats. Covering a variety of genreswith clear pictures practical advice and easy-to-use audio downloads this is the essential introductory book for anyone wanting to learn this fantastic instrument. The content of AbsoluteBeginners: Electronic Drums is uniquely focused on Electronic instead of Acoustic Drums allowing you to take advantage of the increasing popularity and versatility of this innovative instrument. The book takes youthrough the history of the drums through its many advantages to setting up your kit. Then you'll learn basic things like posture and how to hold the sticks before getting into basic rhythms extending the beat using thedifferent parts of the kit and real grooves in a number of styles (Rock Hip Hop Funk and Disco).  The accompanying Audio Download is accessible through the card that's included in the book and itincludes over 60 audio tracks that feature demonstrations and backing tracks of each of the exercises that are in the book. This makes learning much easier more fun and will get you playing along with music as quickly aspossible. Watch our exclusive video of Amy Winehouse's drummer Nathan Allen demonstrate how versatile the Electronic Drums can be: From the very first time you play your Electronic Drums AbsoluteBeginners will guide you through step-by-step with large images clear explanations and very helpful hints that will get you playing and sounding great in no time at all.  The