Drum Primer Book by Tim Wimer is the book for beginning drummers. Starting on the snare, it concentrates on stick control, counting and playing rhythms, and correct technique. It then progresses to the full drum kit, showing in detail several rhythm patterns, fills, and playing along with a full band. It also includes a complete section on assembling and tuning the drum kit, complete with many photos illustrating each step. Includes an audio CD that plays all the musical examples in the book and features a full band (bass, guitar, & keyboards) on five songs.
This drumming workbook helps to perfect fill technique for a variety of rock styles. Basic rhythms are shown, then modified with orchestrations. Practice tips and a variety of quotes provide additional inspiration. The accompanying CD includes 71 demo and play-along tracks. Covers: practice suggestions, motion concepts, compound rhythm concepts, hand-foot concepts, drum to cymbal concepts, roll concepts, play-along charts, percussion notation, and more.
At long last, the secrets of David Garibaldi's groundbreaking funk/jazz fusion drumming techniques are presented in this innovative book and CD. Whether you play rock, heavy metal, jazz or funk, you'll learn to incorporate Garibaldi's contemporary linear styles and musical concepts into your playing and develop your own unique drumset vocabulary. 64 pages.
Guide to Snare Drum Rudiments DVD by Tim Wimer is a 60 minute video that teaches the 26 essential rudiments required by school band programs. It starts with setting up the snare, holding the sticks, tuning the snare, and achieving a good sound . It then covers each rudiment in detail, demonstrating it slowly and then playing it as would be required in auditions (open, closed, open). Our unique split screen shows both hands in detail, with notation on screen and a bouncing ball type pointer showing each note as it's being played. This is the ideal video for the band student who wants to succeed.
Drums Styles Book by Tim Wimer is the followup book to Drum Primer. It is designed for the intermediate to advanced drummer and teaches many styles of music such as rock, blues, reggae, jazz, and latin. It starts each style by building a basic beat, one instrument at a time, going through several variations on the basic beat, and adding drum fills for that particular style. There are many examples of each style where the student plays along with a full band on the 60 minute audio CD.
Introduction to Drums DVD by Tim Wimer is a 60 minute video that covers the material in the Drum Primer book. It focuses on the beginning drummer. Starting on the snare, it concentrates on stick control, counting and playing rhythms, and correct technique. It then progresses to the full drum kit, showing in detail several rhythm patterns and playing along with a full band to 5 songs. Our unique split screen shows both hands and both feet in detail, with notation on screen and a bouncing ball type pointer showing each note as it's being played. A beginner's guide on how to play drums.
Now with CD accompaniment! This unique method starts students out on the entire drumset and teaches them the basics in the shortest amount of time. Book 1 covers basic 4- and 5-piece set-ups, grips and sticks, reading and improvisation, coordination of hands and feet, and features a variety of contemporary and basic rhythm patterns with exercise breakdowns for each. Book 2 continues instruction with more improvisation exercises, playing triplets, flams and flam beats, practical musicianship tips, equipment selection and many more techniques and skills. The accompanying CDs feature demonstrations of the exercises.
Drummer, session man, teacher and Classic Drummer columnist Bart Robley has compiled the most essential rudiments that form the basis for all of his work. These exercises are not only great for beginners who need a solid foundation, but also perfect refreshers for intermediate to advanced players. By the time drummers are done with this book, their playing will come together into rhythms that can be used in a wide variety of playing situations.
Expand your musical depth and bring new levels of power and speed to your drumming! Orchestrate sticking patterns into drum grooves. Open up and explore the fundamental rudiments, singles, doubles, flams, paradiddles, and ratamacues. Go beyond pattern concepts to make stickings flow smoothly into one another, so that you can better express your musical ideas. Master drummer and Berklee professor Casey Scheurell shows how basic stickings translate into drum set inventions and orchestrations. Technical explanations and extensive practice exercises with the play-along CD will help you make your fills become more vibrant and your solos more virtuosic. Includes drum charts.
Use your imagination to incorporate these rudimental etudes into new patterns that you can apply to the drumset or tom toms as you develop your hand technique with the Snare Drum Rudiments, your hand and foot technique with the Drumset Rudiments and your polyrhythmic technique with the Polyrhythm Rudiments. Adopt them all into your own creative expressions based on ideas you come up with while practicing. The recording includes demonstrations of the rudiments and four drum solos utilizing all of the rudiments.
The World Beat Rhythms series explores rhythmic styles from different regions of the world. The hybrid compositions and rhythms in this book/CD pack are influenced by the popular Akom, Adowa and rhythms from the Central African Republic. Each book/CD pack includes photographs of each percussion instrument, instruction on techniques used to play each instrument, percussion scores, rhythm indexes played at different tempos, worksheets, percussion breaks, charts, audio examples of each rhythm demonstrated on their respective instruments and more. The CD contains demonstration and play-along tracks that can be used when learning and practicing the examples. Play along with a 30-piece percussion ensemble with drumset and bass! The World Beat Rhythms series can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by music educators for private or group instruction. A great asset to all music educators and band directors to get their orchestras, band ensembles and students of all ages grooving together. - Joe Porcaro
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