The Drummer's Cookbook

Par PICKERING JOHN. Take your creativity to another level with this book! Rock music is, or should be, a form of personal expression. This text was written to encourage and develop the drummer's ability to create and develop his own ideas from a solid foundation. This is one in a series of books that deals with one of the most important aspects of rock drumming that of rhythmic improvisation. Topics covered in this book are: The Rock Feeling, The Variations and Development of a Basic Figure, Rhythmic Improvisation, Solos, and Cymbal Variations with the Right Hand. A CD is also included. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Rock and Jazz - Technic / Méthode / Batterie

If you want to learn the art of trading ?fours? The Drummer?s Cookbook Volume II will help you put it all together. This book takes you through the entire process from developing a vocabulary to real world application. Today?sworking drummers are asked to play fills and fours at a variety of different tempos each requiring a different vocabulary. The author breaks down the process into three general tempo zones: moderate bright and extreme. Developyour own musical vocabulary by studying the tools of the trade: uneven note groups rhythm fragments implied tempo changes ghost notes quarter note triplets and more. Then put it all together by learning the format for fours.Learn to think in phrases: three beat groups call and response and symmetric and asymmetric phrases. Study the standard 32 bar AABA jazz format and learn the how why and when of trading fours. Finally all these skills can bepracticed with several hundred two and four bar solos in each of the three tempo ranges.

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have beenthought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Lefthand; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) Hi-hat - Left foot. The author clearly states his goals in writing this book: 'It is my sincere wish that the materials presented in [this] text will be of considerable help indeveloping musical approach to the coordination skills demanded of today's drummer.' -John Pickering