Hand Drumming Essentials

Hand Drumming Essentials
Author: C. A. Grosso
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739032824

Hand Drumming Essentials is unlike any book you've seen! This innovative new approach provides all the information you need to begin and maintain your own hand drumming ensemble. The book includes an introduction to hand drumming; instruments of the hand drumming ensemble (including conga, bongos and timbales, and exotic world percussion instruments such as agogo, axatse, caxixi and toke); performance techniques; rehearsal techniques; the development of hand drumming technique; and compositions for performance.

The Best Beginner Drum Book

The Best Beginner Drum Book
Author: Jared Falk
Publisher: Drumeo
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1999151917

If you want to have more fun on the drums, improve your skills faster, and play along to real music, then you need to build a solid foundation. The Best Beginner Drum Book gives you a clear path for getting started on the drums and skipping the frustrating obstacles that most new drummers face: setting up your kit, holding the drumsticks, learning notation, creating catchy beats and fills, learning musical styles, and playing your favorite songs.

Tommy Igoe - Groove Essentials

Tommy Igoe - Groove Essentials
Author: Tommy Igoe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423411277

(DVD). This value pack includes Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials The Play-Along book/CD pack (06620095/$24.95) AND the Groove Essentials DVD (00320446/$24.95) for the low price of $39.95! The book serves as a play-along companion for the DVD with 88 tracks and charts and 164 groove variations for over 6 hours of play-along music! The DVD covers 47 grooves every drummer needs to know, with each groove broken down and demonstrated with music. Includes free giant groove poster!

Modern Drummer Presents Stick Technique (Music Instruction)

Modern Drummer Presents Stick Technique (Music Instruction)
Author: Bill Bachman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476856532

(Book). Culled from Bill Bachman's popular "Strictly Technique" articles in Modern Drummer magazine, this book will help players develop hands that are loose, stress free, and ready to play anything that comes to mind. The book is for everyone who plays with sticks, regardless of whether you're focusing primarily on drumset, orchestral percussion, or the rudimental style of drumming. Divided into three main sections Technique, Top Twelve Rudiments, and Chops Builders the book is designed to get you playing essential techniques correctly and as quickly as possible. Also includes a bonus section two-hand coordination and independence.

Brazilian Percussion Manual

Brazilian Percussion Manual
Author: Dan Sabanovich
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457425967

Percussion instruments, rhythms, and performance techniques of the Brazilian samba ensemble.

Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer

Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
Author: Ted Reed
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457412195

Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.

Stick Technique

Stick Technique
Author: Bill Bachman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781458418203

(Book). Culled from Bill Bachman's popular "Strictly Technique" articles in Modern Drummer magazine, this book will help players develop hands that are loose, stress free, and ready to play anything that comes to mind. The book is for everyone who plays with sticks, regardless of whether you're focusing primarily on drumset, orchestral percussion, or the rudimental style of drumming. Divided into three main sections Technique, Top Twelve Rudiments, and Chops Builders the book is designed to get you playing essential techniques correctly and as quickly as possible. Also includes a bonus section two-hand coordination and independence. Other topics discussed include various grips and fulcrums, free strokes, the alley-oop, downstrokes, taps, upstroke, and the Moeller whip stroke.

Stick Control

Stick Control
Author: George Lawrence Stone
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457433761

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.

Freestyle Rudiments

Freestyle Rudiments
Author: Geoff Fry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781527229044

Geoff is a passionate educator and performer, In this book he focuses on the expansion of both standard and hybrid drum corps rudiments. He will introduce a simple but effective method allowing the reader to master over 500 modern rudimental variations. For the beginner: This is a great introduction to names and families of the most used rudiments.For the advanced player: This will teach a method that not only creates hundreds of new variations but helps develop complete rudimental freedom.For the teacher: This is a great resource to use as a reference and to expanding a student's rudimental vocabulary.

Hand Drumming Ensembles

Hand Drumming Ensembles
Author: C.A. Grosso
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 36
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457412325

Hand Drumming Ensembles is the companion to the method book Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques and Compositions for Ensemble Performance. This supplemental volume contains 12 complete performance scores of compositions for hand drumming ensemble. These compositions (Rhythm Chants) are written at a variety of levels and can be learned by young musicians and students with no previous musical training. All of the Rhythm Chants can be studied and performed by more proficient musicians.