The Post-Bop Drum Book: Audio and Video Included

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The book guides you from simple patterns all the way to advanced polyrhythm exercises, which will be difficult even for experienced players!

Solely written for those drummers moving to the world of jazz and bebop, The Art of Bop Drumming is a great collection of exercises and techniques found in the style. As we all know, jazz drumming isn’t easy, but this book can help ease you into it. My last choice of essential books for drummers is Basic Drumming by Joel Rothman, or the “big pink book” as many young students call it. This book is a massive collection of so many concepts that it’s pretty incredible what Joel was able to fit inside. Description: This book will take you through a variety of different groove-based “systems.” As you work through these different “systems,” you’ll learn to apply different melodies to them with different limbs. This book will help you develop your independence, coordination, and your reading skills! Description: Afro-Cuban Rhythms For Drumset is the perfect book to help you learn styles like Guaguanco, Mozambique, Songo, Bembe, and Merengue. This book will explain the history behind each style as well as how each style translates to the drum-set from different Afro-Cuban percussion parts.Brazilian percussion has had a significant impact on popular music genres such as jazz, funk, and hip-hop. In recent years, Brazilian percussion has continued to evolve and innovate, with musicians incorporating new sounds and influences into the tradition. Description: Jim Chapin was the first drummer to publish a book that focused on independence in a jazz context. This book will help you develop your swing independence and vocabulary through many different exercises. This is a classic book that has proven to stand the test of time. Description: The All American Drummer includes 150 different rudimental solos. These traditional and swing influenced solos are 16 or 32 bars in length. This book has been one of the most popular snare drum books for decades!

Brandon Toews’ instructive book The Drummer’s Toolbox offers a thorough introduction to 101 drumming styles from the past century. Drummers of all levels are encouraged to use the book to broaden their musical horizons and develop a broader range of playing styles. In addition, it serves as a comprehensive reference manual for learning and performing drums in any musical genre. While Riley’s first book lays the foundation for classic hard bop drumming, this book explores freedom and abstraction, challenging you to expand your concept of the role of a drummer from time keeper to lead instrument and equal voice. This is a fairly new book that should be recognized as a great book for beginners. Simply, it dives into all the different styles of drumming, providing some of the core grooves for 101 different styles of music.Printing: Printing for books is not available for our eBooks, which are designed as digital-only products. While many of our eBooks have identical print edition versions available, many are available in eBook-only format. The exercises also include rudiments between the hand and the foot, two and four-bar exercises, double and triple patterns, and much more.

Such concepts as dynamics, space, orchestration and phrasing are tools we can use to get closer to the elusive well-spring of creativity. Besides syncopation, this is a great book to test and work on your reading skills as it includes many different notes and rests like dotted eights, accent eights, eighth-note triplets, s ixteenth notes, and much more. Guiliana’s approach might seem like it gives prominence to drumming mechanics, but if you dig down below the surface, he’s really referring to the nuts and bolts of music-making. This is by no means a drum technique book. In other words, if you’re a beginner, there are better alternatives like the first books on this list.

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Once at a decent speed start moving the solo around the kit, for example, maybe moving all the accents to the toms. That is where you start learning how to solo a bit more, it teaches you how to move around the kit using some drum concepts other than hit hard and fast. One common approach is to use the bass drum to emulate the rhythms of the surdo, a large bass drum that plays a foundational role in many Brazilian musical styles.