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Mel Bay Drummer's Cookbook - Pickering/Briggs - Drumset - Book/Audio Online
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Author: John Pickering
Recording: Frank Briggs
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Drumset
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.
Contents:
I. The Rock Feeling: An explanation of some of the different "feels" or "grooves" used in rock, featuring exercises showing three basic high hat patterns and their relationship to the overall feeling of a rhythm.
II. The Variations and Development of a Basic Figure: A method of obtaining variations from a basic figure by
III. Rhythmic Improvisation: A study of the concept of improvising rhythmically. Beginning with a basic rhythmic structure and proceeding in a manner similar to melodic improvisation.
Recording: Frank Briggs
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Drumset
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.
Contents:
I. The Rock Feeling: An explanation of some of the different "feels" or "grooves" used in rock, featuring exercises showing three basic high hat patterns and their relationship to the overall feeling of a rhythm.
II. The Variations and Development of a Basic Figure: A method of obtaining variations from a basic figure by
- A. Changing the tonal structure of a figure
- B. Changing the rhythmic structure of a figure
III. Rhythmic Improvisation: A study of the concept of improvising rhythmically. Beginning with a basic rhythmic structure and proceeding in a manner similar to melodic improvisation.
- A. Chapter One- Variations of a basic beat, containing a series of eight, 8-bar solos derived from the exercises in this chapter.
- B. Chapter Two- Variations of a basic beat, again with a series of eight, 8-bar solos built from the exercises in this chapter.
- C. Cymbal Variations with the Right Hand Offers a few exercises demonstrating the technique of varying the rhythm of the right hand, integrating it into the overall rhythm.
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I like to do a couple of the exercises whenever I practice. I haven't made it far into the book yet, but I can see that anyone who just did 2 or 3 per day would be a monster drummer by the end of the book. I'm on my way....
Posted by Justin Furgason on Jul 26, 2019