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.

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.

The Ultimate Guide to Syncopation

Thomas Lang: Creative Control

This 2-DVD set introduces the unique and innovative system used by Thomas Lang to develop his awesome speed, control, finesse and coordination. A step-by-step system that will allow you to hone your drumming chops so you can play more effectively in any style of music.

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.

Mark Schulman: A Day In The Recording Studio

A Do-It Yourself Guide to Recording Great Drum Tracks. On A Day in the Recording Studio, Mark Schulman shows you how to play and record state-of-the-art drum tracks. The DVD simply and humorously shows you the complete spectrum of recording drums in the studio: preparation of the equipment, tuning, microphone technique, digital recording, performance, editing, effects, studio construction, creating drum parts, Schulman's own quick system of charting songs, and great video footage.Nearly every studio drummer in Los Angeles records his/her own drum tracks in bedrooms, garages, and home studios. This DVD shows you how to do it and reduces your fear of getting started by giving you simple, entertaining, and inspiring instruction. You can start recording right away!

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.

Benny Greb: The Language of Drumming (2 DVDs) - Optional German Voiceover Track

The Language of Drumming provides a fascinating look into Benny Greb?s unique approach to making music on the drums?a complete and practical approach that is based on a concept familiar to everyone: learning a language.This system begins with basic rhythmic ?letters? and ?words,? and progresses to include a wide variety of topics, including grooving, interdependence, improvisation, rudimental vocabulary, time awareness, and a Western form of the Indian phrasing system, all explained in a comprehensive, easily understandable system that is suitable for beginning to advanced level drummers.The Language of Drumming is among the most creative music education DVDs ever made, displaying Benny?s unique sense of humour throughout, as he presents amazingly inventive ways to think about and develop your drumming. Also included are amazing performances with Pete Lockett, the Benny Greb Brass Band, and a great drum solo.

Benny Greb: The Language of Drumming (2 DVDs)

The Language of Drumming provides a fascinating look into Benny Greb?s unique approach to making music on the drums?a complete and practical approach that is based on a concept familiar to everyone: learning a language.This system begins with basic rhythmic ?letters? and ?words,? and progresses to include a wide variety of topics, including grooving, interdependence, improvisation, rudimental vocabulary, time awareness, and a Western form of the Indian phrasing system, all explained in a comprehensive, easily understandable system that is suitable for beginning to advanced level drummers.The Language of Drumming is among the most creative music education DVDs ever made, displaying Benny?s unique sense of humour throughout, as he presents amazingly inventive ways to think about and develop your drumming. Also included are amazing performances with Pete Lockett, the Benny Greb Brass Band, and a great drum solo.

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

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.

Akira Jimbo: Fujiyama - Combining Acoustic And Electronic Drums (Book And CD)

In this book, Akira Jimbo shows you how he has expanded the concept of the drumset as a solo instrument. After 15 years of research and development, Jimbo has developed an organic approach to combining electronic and acoustic drums by utilizing a Drum Trigger System. Jimbo has worked out everything you need to be your own band - you'll be playing the melody, harmony and rhythm in a breathtaking musical panorama.

Gil Sharone: Wicked Beats

Wicked Beats is a complete guide to Jamaican drumming styles. Gil Sharone takes you on a musical journey through these styles, as well as the earlier styles that helped shape them. Gil also introduces and demonstrates classic "riddims" that are essential for achieving this classic sound. The DVD includes performances, classic beats, and variations of each style, play-along tracks, and much more. Running time: 2 hours, 33 minutes.

Hudson Music: Drum Lesson Planner

This guide provides plenty of space for teacher and student to create complete multimedia lesson plans, track progress, and create transcriptions. There are 21 2-page spreads of lesson assignment sheets with facing blank manuscript pages, plus extra blank staff pages at the end of the book. This planner is the perfect way to organise lessons and can be used with all your favourite books, DVDs, and websites, as well as your own exercises.

Thomas Lang: Creative Control

Designed to be used as either a standalone product or in combination with the Creative Control DVD, Thomas Lang presents the unique and innovative system that he has used to develop his awesome speed, control, finesse, and coordination ? a step-by-step system that will allow you to hone your drumming chops so that you can play more effectively in any style of music. Actually two books in one, throughout Part I Thomas details his methodology and provides you with over 90 challenging exercises created to allow you to practice technique, endurance, accuracy, timing, independence, coordination, mechanics, and stamina. Part II of the book contains applied musical examples that showcase many of the techniques and ideas presented in Part I. Included are play-along rhythm charts for five musical compositions from the DVD, which were specially re-mixed without drums exclusively for this book, and are included on the enclosed audio CD. In addition to the charts, Thomas has written extensive performance notes for each song, in which he describes in detail how the pieces are constructed and his own thought process in creating his drum parts for these songs. So dive in, and prepare yourself for one of the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding experiences of your musical career!

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.

Tom Hapke: Super Play Along Drums (Book/CD)

'Super Playalong' comes up with 10 fully notated songs in two levels of performance. The drummer may practise band playing and chart reading with different styles of music, such as rock, pop, jungle, jazz feel, heavy, fusion and others. Each song is easily accessible thanks to a clear and comprehensive notation. The author Tom Hapke, who has also developed the succesful drums teaching system 'Drums Easy 1 + 2' and '66 Drumsolos', with excellent application technique to prepare for band playing or playing along with songs, or to improve those skills according to an individually appropriate performance level. 'Super Play Along' is a new concept, which helps the drummer to play in a band or along with songs. The songs are fully notated in two levels or performance, which enhances note reading skills and band compatibiloity on the one hand, and observing the timing while playing along with songs on the other.

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.

Gil Sharone: Wicked Beats - Jamaican Ska, Rocksteady & Reggae Drumming

Gil Sharone 's Wicked Beats is a complete guide to the Jamaican drumming styles of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. In this insightful DVD, Sharone takes you on a musical journey through these styles and explores some of the earlier styles that helped shape them including African Nyabingi and Burru drumming. Sharone introduces and demonstrates classic “riddims” that are essential for achieving an authentic sound. With instructional breakdowns, stellar performances, detailed eBook and in-depth commentary, you will be able to fully grasp what these highly influential styles have to offer and apply them to your own playing! This DVD features special appearances by: Reggae historian Roger Steffens, Jamaican drumming pioneer Lloyd Knibb of The Skatalites, Reggae drumming legend Carlton Santa Davis, Adrian Young from No Doubt. It also includes: over 11 performances, classic beats and variations of each style, segment on achieving the right sound, detailed transcriptions.

Phil Maturano: Afro Cuban Drumming

Phil Maturano's Afro Cuban Drumming, an overview for Drumset, is designed to give the drumset player a birds eye view of the Afro Cuban drumming experience. If you've always wanted to get into Latin styles, this is your chance. Phil's attention to detail is fantastic, using two of the most popular styles of Afro-Cuban music, players of every level can learn from the very beginning! Start by seeing and hearing the patterns played on the original; instruments then learn how to adapt everything you see on the drumset, all with close-ups and detailed explanations. Then you will cover a topic rarely explored in this kind of instructional material - how to apply these patterns in a rhythm section! By adding one percussionist at a time, we see and hear the function of the drumset in Afro Cuban music. As everyone knows, there is more to this music than just patterns, to really understand the language of this music Maturano uses his unique system for decoding the phrasing of all African descent music - RTS.

Johnny Rabb: The Official Freehand Technique (Book And CD)

The Official Freehand Technique is a unique method book showcasing the art of playing and executing rhythms and patterns with a single hand. Many drummers have used this or similar techniques throughout the years; however, Johnny's original and innovative method is by far the most comprehensive, practical, and easy to use. This technique is a legitimate system mastered by Johnny through the years of extensive research and teaching, and is designed to enhance your drumming and further develop your independence skills. This technique will not only allow you the freedom to expand your snare drum and drum set proficiency, but also it can be directly applied to all percussion instruments, opening doors to numerous rhythmic possibilities. Johnny Rabb a world-renowned performer and clinician, has organised this book into three basic sections. First you'll learn the theory, mechanics, and techniques of the Freehand, which will be directly applied to the numerous rhythmic vocabulary permutations that follow. In this section you will practice unlimited combinations of rhythms and patterns, preparing you for the final musical applications section, which incorporates the freehand into your daily playing. Also included are detailed lessons beyond the basics, Freehand snare drum solos and hybrid rudiments, drum set grooves and applications, and Freehand drum fills and poly-rhythms. As a bonus, Johnny includes several play-along groove loops to practice with while you're building your new technique.

Mike Adamo: The Breakbeat Bible - The Fundamentals Of Breakbeat Drumming

The most in-depth study of breakbeat drumming in print! The style is divided into thirteen essential elements, with each element discussed in its own chapter. Hundreds of exercises and beats give the reader ample opportunity to practice the elements, which, when assembled, will give the drummer the ability to integrate a complete language of incredibly funky concepts into his or her playing.Over 90 transcriptions of beats and breaks provide the reader with a window into hip-hop/breakbeat drumming. Included are some of the most sampled beats in music history ? including information about the original song and later songs that used the sample. Also included is a historical overview of hip-hop and breakbeat drumming, as well as biographies of many of the "architects" that helped design the culture.The "Click Track Loops" chapter provides an incredibly challenging system for practicing the breakbeat/hip-hop elements and other grooves against various patterns programmed into a drum machine. These will help the reader attain new levels of tightness, precision, and groove in their drumming.The CD features MP3 files with examples of select exercises, beats, and eight-bar phrases from the book. It also contains five play-along instrumental tracks (with and without drums). There is also a bonus sample library featuring 30 individual drum/cymbal sounds. Bonus Sections include Beats With Drops, Fills, and Dubstep.

Tommy Igoe: Groove Essentials 1.0 - The Play-Along (French Edition)

French Language version of Tommy Igoe's groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century! With over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents a quantum leap in play-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats, rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk, through Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B to world and speciality grooves including Calypso, Baiao Samba, Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail, with all required techniques, a full musical context, and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some of the hottest musicians of New York City.Beginner drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band, giving you a chance to play the drums with good, solid time utilizing four-way coordination.Intermediate drummers will have a chance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and R&B sections and also start playing some good, swinging Jazz.Advanced and professional drummers will find twenty challenging world grooves to master, as well as the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles, waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standard charts, and the backing tracks are presented in MP3 format, allowing them to be used on Mac, PC, iPod and portable MP3 systems.

Tommy Igoe: Groove Essentials Volume 1 - The Play-Along

Tommy Igoe presents THE groove encyclopedia for the 21st Century, overflowing with over six hours of music and 88 play-along tracks for drummers of all abilities.Groove Essentials represents a quantum leap in play-along packages for the developing drummer. Tommy Igoe provides a comprehensive guide to over forty beats, rhythms and styles ranging from Rock and Funk, through Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B to world and speciality grooves including Calypso, Baiao Samba, Batucada and lots more! Every rhythm is explained in detail, with all required techniques, a full musical context, and two professionally recorded backing tracks featuring some of the hottest musicians of New York City.Beginning drummers will enjoy playing the simple rock beats with a real band, giving you a chance to play the drums with good, solid time utilizing four-way coordination.Intermediate drummers will have a chance to tackle some syncopated 16th-note grooves in the funk and R&B sections and also start playing some good, swinging Jazz.Advanced and professional drummers will find twenty challenging world grooves to master, as well as the opportunity to try an infinite number of different feels on Jazz shuffles, waltzes and more.Each example is supported by professional-standard charts, and the backing tracks are presented in MP3 format, allowing them to be used on Mac, PC, iPod and portable MP3 systems.