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Double Bass Drumming: Not Only For Metal (English)

Double Bass Drumming: Not Only For Metal has been expertly written by Dani Löbel. This fantastic book is perfect for any Drummer wanting to learn Double Bass Drumming techniques.Double Bass Drumming: Not Only For Metal by Dani Löbel takes you through single stroke, advanced double stroke, 8th note double stroke as well as posture and rhythms.

Drumbassadors: One For The Money, But Two For The Show

Disc 1 contains a concert of the drumbassadors (Rene? Creemers and Wim de Vries) which was given for a wildly enthusiastic live audience in the Netherlands in 2009. The drumbassadors show their great creativity and virtuosity in the beautiful drum compositions of their own. Supported by a few guest musicians the drumbassadors take you to an absolutely unique peak in the field of drumming.Disc 2 is an instruction DVD on which Rene ?and Wim explain matters such as grip, strokes, motion, sitting balance, tone, dynamics, coordination, phrasing and melodic playing. Further attention is paid to playing with brushes and hints how to study systematically are given. In addition, Rene? and Wim demonstrate, once again, in a number of solo, duo and band performances, how hugely creative and varied their unique style of playing is.

Jojo Mayer: Secret Weapons For The Modern Drummer - Part II

Secret Weapons For The Modern Drummer - Part II is the sequel to Jojo Mayer 's award winning bestseller on hand technique. This volume is a comprehensive guide to foot technique for drummers, covering a wide range of techniques, from the fundamental to the most sophisticated. State of the art visualization and in-depth analysis offer easy to follow, step by step instructions for drummers of every skill level. Highly entertaining and informative, Jojo explains every aspect of foot work and pedals, and for the first time reveals the inner workings of his own technique in great detail. Over 4 hours of footage, including tips, performance clips and bonus material is included.

Tommy Igoe: Great Hands For A Lifetime

This new DVD from Tommy Igoe focuses on developing and maintaining the physical tools that are essential for every drummer and drumming application: their hands.At the heart of this life-changing, career-extending system is the three-tier 'Lifetime Warmup' originally conceived in the 1950s by Tommy's father, Sonny Igoe. Featuring basic, intermediate and advanced levels, the Lifetime Warmup is a challenging routine that weaves its way through standard drum rudiments and motions. This nearly four-hour DVD includes Tommy demonstrating the basics of his system:Matched and Traditional gripFulcrum ConceptsRebound StrokesSingles and DoublesCheck PatternsThe Five Families Of RudimentsYou also get a group demonstration with five of Tommy's students, including all three versions of the Lifetime Warmup. Included are a free, colour-coordinated, wall sized Lifetime Warmup poster and a compact fold-out guide courtesy of Evans Drumheads as well as a printable, 60-page eBook with instruction and exercises. Created by one of today's most successful and progressive drum educators, Great Hands For A Lifetime brings the no-nonsense, inspiring approach of the Groove Essentials series to hand technique and provides a proven alternative for drummers who wish to discover the full potential of their hands and stay healthy drumming over the decades to come.

Dave Odart: The Rock And Pop Rhythm Workouts For The Modern Drummer

The Rock And Pop Rhythm Workouts For The Modern Drummer contains a carefully selected series of rhythm and fill exercises aimed at developing both the beginner and intermediate student’s reading, timing, technique, feel and stylistic awareness. The exercises are accompanied by 8 original songs in different styles that can be used for practicing range, in tempo from 70bpm to 140bpm. Dave Odart is a full time professional musician, experienced teacher and composer working from his home studio in Shropshire and for the local authority teaching in schools and colleges. He organises his own examination centre for Trinity College London candidates and his students have achieved a 100% pass rate with over 300 candidates successfully taking examinations since 2010. Dave was commissioned to write six technical exercises for the Trinity College London 2014 Drum Kit examination syllabus and works closely with other professional musicians to ensure that the best quality music education programme is available to all of his students. In addition to teaching Dave regularly performs with several bands and has touring and recording experience.

Jimmy Branly: The New Method For Afro-Cuban Drummnig

The New Method for Afro-Cuban Drumming features Jimmy's unique approach to playing contemporary Latin rhythms on the drumset. The material represents a fusion of his experience growing up in Cuba and shows how he applied this knowledge when he got to the United States and began performing. Patterns include: clave, cascara, bombo, guaguanco, cha cha cha and Afro-Cuban 6/8. Jimmy also includes a section on soloing ideas.

Pete Lockett: Indian Rhythms For Drumset (Book And CD)

This book, the first of its kind, takes an indepth look at the complex rhythmic systems of India. Author and world-class percussionist Pete Lockett has traveled, performed, and studied extensively in India. His unique expertise provides a clear explanation of Indian rhythms and counting systems, and gives drummers a step-by-step resource for adapting these concepts to the drumset and successfully incorporating them into their playing. Indian Rhythms For Drumset dispels much of the mystery that surrounds the Indian rhythmic system, using vocal syllables known as solkattu or konnakol. The South-Indian rhythmic approach is covered in particular detail, containing concepts that can be applied to jazz, rock, funk, and other styles. Topics covered include solo concepts, phrase development, groove concepts, syncopations, rhythmic modulations, and intricate stickings. The CD included contains MP3 files of the author demonstrating nearly every exercise in the book (over 200 examples), and also features three play-along tracks mixed with and without drums.

Tom Hapke: Drums Easy 2 Pedagogic System For Advanced Drummer

Drums easy 2 is the sequal to the succesful teaching method Drums Easy. Directly putting theory into practice motivates students and this is the main emphasis of Drums easy. Intensive work on practisepad and drumset is of course a necessary condition for every successful method. What will particularly help the teacher and the student here is the systematic treatment of the different themes and figures.

Jeff Salem: A Rhythmic Twist - Triplet Concepts For Drumset

Can you learn how to swing? Yes, and this book will show you how, giving you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common, comfortable 16th-note patterns and adapting them into a triplet feel. The results are amazingly musical and refreshingly creative, and will give any drummer tons of new ideas to play within any swing-based groove.Jeff Salem covers many concepts, including solidifying your basic triplet grooves in various styles, moving around the drumset with triplets, incorporating the bass drum into your fills, creating interesting triplet grooves using 16th note-based rhythms, applying paradiddle concepts to triplet grooves and fills, incorporating rests into your swung phrases, and more.In the later chapters, the triplet rhythms presented are applied to fills that can be used in blues, R&B, rock and hip-hop settings, and are also applied specifically to jazz concepts to broaden your independence and vocabulary in a traditional swing setting.An introductory section with basic triplet feels and a listening guide is designed to start beginning-level drummers on the right path to understanding swing-based styles.The book comes complete with an MP3 CD presenting play-along tracks in many styles, which are designed for you to apply the concepts learned in the book. The disc also includes demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.

Todd Sucherman: Methods & Mechanics For Useful Drumming

Jam packed with performances, in this DVD Todd plays along with popular Styx songs, demonstrates Drum solos, provides instruction on hands and foot techniques, gives insights on touring, offers quick tips and much more. Astonishing technique, power and musicality explode from the various musical and solo performances throughout this DVD. Filmed in high definition.

Jojo Mayer: Secret Weapons For The Modern Drummer - A Guide To Hand Technique

Jojo Mayer has put together the most comprehensive and detailed volume on hand technique ever published! As both an inspiring instructional method and highly entertaining reference guide, this DVD is invaluable to drummers of every skill level. It covers a wide range of information from the most fundamental to the most sophisticated techniques. Many of the topics addressed here reveal and explain closely guarded and never-before-published secrets of the great masters as well as Jojo's own approaches. All are documented here for the first time! English Version.

Jojo Mayer: Secret Weapons For The Modern Drummer - A Guide To Hand Technique (German Edition)

Jojo Mayer has put together the most comprehensive and detailed volume on hand technique ever published! As both an inspiring instructional method and highly entertaining reference guide, this DVD is invaluable to drummers of every skill level. It covers a wide range of information from the most fundamental to the most sophisticated techniques. Many of the topics addressed here reveal and explain closely guarded and never-before-published secrets of the great masters as well as Jojo's own approaches. All are documented here for the first time! German Version.

Mike Mangini: The Grid - A System For Creative Drumming & Improvisation

This system is presented through performed examples and graphics, and is usable by drummers of all styles.Dividing your drumming into time signature, subdivision, dynamics, instrument sounds, limbs, style, and phrases, Mike demonstrates dozens of grooves, fills, and patterns from easy to extremely advanced. He systematically shows you how to use the Grid to expand your understanding of music and drumming, and improve your physical abilities. Filmed in two different studios on two different Drum kits, including Mike's signature Dream Theater setup during the recording of the band's latest album, this 2-DVD set presents a brand-new and unique philosophy by one of the leading drummers of our time. Using Mike's system, you can grow exponentially as a drummer by increasing your speed, developing better independence, learning to use ostinatos and expanding your knowledge of styles. You will also learn to use polyrhythms, play in odd time signatures, develop a deeper understanding of the basics of rhythm and become a more creative player.

Concepts : A Guide to Essential Drumset Processes for the Modern Drummer

Ralph Humphrey & Joe Porcaro Playing Techniques 3 : A Complete Curriculum for Contemporary Drum Set Skills - Spiral Bound

Ralph Humphrey & Joe Porcaro Playing Techniques 2 : A Complete Curriculum for Contemporary Drum Set Skills - Spiral Bound

Ralph Humphrey & Joe Porcaro Playing Techniques 4 : A Complete Curriculum for Contemporary Drum Set Skills - Spiral Bound

Ralph Humphrey & Joe Porcaro Playing Techniques 1 : A Complete Curriculum for Contemporary Drum Set Skills - Spiral Bound

Victor Wooten: Bass Workshop (Book/Download)

Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime, game-changing bassist in the early- 90s, via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later, with A Show of Hands, it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force, thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package, Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It, Victor reveals his musical soul. In Part 1, he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel, dynamics, tone, phrasing, space, and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature. In Part 2, Victor addresses the personal lessons, using text, notation, tablature, and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening, tone, harmonics, thumb technique, tapping, looping, and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout, Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic, as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded.

Dietrich Wöhrlin: Rinks + Lechts - Coordinating Drums (German/English) (Book/DVD)

Methods for developing and applying patterns and rhythms using logical movement concepts. The basics of coordination and independence for all styles. A unitary concept using clear movement patterns logically coordinated, thus making it possible to play and vary the most diverse patterns and rhythms easily using a single concept. Using these movement patterns as the basis, this method shows how to create effective ideas for rhythmic accompaniment and possibilities for varying patterns in all styles.

Jose Eladio Amat: Playing Congas

Authentic Cuban conga rhythms presented by a Cuban master of the congas.Teaches Jose's special technique which reduces the movement of the hands to a minimum to achieve a very relaxed but also fluent method of playing.Includes: Great exercises and fillings for 1 and 2 congas; Cuban rhythms for 2 and 3 congasBonus tracks: Small percussion and a great solo for one conga.Easy notation based on symbols, for both right and left handed players!

Rob Collomb/Matthias Philipzen: Easy Group Guitar/Choir/Percussion (3 Books/DVD)

The method and repertoire book for Choir, Guitar, Body Percussion and Cajon all in one. Perfect material for teaching or directing children and teenagers in small and large groups. This is 3 books in one.

Benny Greb: The Language Of Drumming (Book/Online Audio)

This tutorial book and online audio set includes and expands on the concepts presented in Benny Greb 's bestselling DVD of the same name. Suitable for beginning-advanced level drummers, this method features a wealth of practice material that is appropriate for all styles, presented in a beautifully illustrated book with a timeless, classic look. The Language Of Drumming teaches a complete system for achieving freedom of expression on the Drumset. Greb has created a practical approach that is based on a concept that will be familiar to everyone: learning a language. Providing exercises for grooves, fills, independence and more, this system progresses from rhythmic “letters” and “words” to “syntax” and “language,” ultimately providing an easily understandable system. Included along the way are new hi-hat groove variations, dozens of ghost-note exercises and a complete system for mastering odd groupings (3, 5, and 7) in your playing. This great package is completed by online audio and video for streaming or download.

Hank Marvin's Guitar Instruction Book

This book is ideal for beginners, but is also suitable for intermediate guitarists who want to develop their chord and lead playing techniques and general musicianship. Hank demonstrates all the material in the book on the two matching CDs. He explains everything fully and provides slow as well as up-to-tempo demonstrations with band accopaniment.

Hakim Ludin: Modern Percussion Vol. 5 - Playing Modern Congas

For the first time, this DVD covers all the rhythms and techniques that are relevant for playing Congas. Presented by Hakim Ludin, one of the top international percussionists and shooting star at the Montreal Drum Festival, this volume is a valuable source for the beginning and more advanced percussionist on Conga.Besides basic techniques and stokes on Conga, Hakim Ludin shows all the major rhythms a percussionist needs in modern music. In addition he presents the many possibilities on Congas with several innovative solo and duo pieces.To learn with Hakim Ludin is not only a real motivational experience but moreover great fun since his instruction is crystal clear and very practical to use.