Percussion category: 112 books
The Drummer's Bible
How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Updated to include 50 additional grooves, this encyclopedic book and two-CD set contains more than 450 musical examples in standard notation, showing grooves and practical variations. Overviews of the history and development of almost all popular music styles are covered alongside innumerable helpful...
Grade 4 Drum Kit Work Book
Beats, fills and rudiments to help you get through at grade 4 level.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Grade 4 Drum Kit Work Book is a series of work books that follows the syllabus across all examination boards at that particular level allowing the student to expand their knowledge and repertoire of beats, fills and rudiments, whilst learning what needs to be learnt at that level. ...
Conga Drumming
A Beginner's Guide to Playing with Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
This book--which won the 2000 DRUM Magazine Readers' Poll for "Best Instructional Book"--is a complete, step-by-step course on conga drumming. It's the book we looked for but couldn't find when we were first learning to drum. We did everything we could to make it user-friendly, so even non-musicians...
Developing Rhythmic Sensitivity
A Study Designed for All Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
design will be sent by the au
Secrets of the Hand
Soloing Strategies for Hand Drummers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book is for any hand drummer who wants to learn to improvise and solo. Whether you play djembe or conga, the practical hand-pattern strategies explained here will help you get the most out of your hands with the least amount of effort. And whether you want to solo in a traditional African or Afro-Cuban...
by David Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Learning to play Drums is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast!
Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine to...
by Michael Drake
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Indigenous shamanic peoples of diverse cultures have gathered in community drumming circles for thousands of years. Although most of us did not grow up in an indigenous shamanic tradition, we can still tap into the healing power of shamanic drumming. Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience, shamanic...
World-Beat & Funk Grooves
Playing a Drumset the Easy Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
If you've got a drumset and you know how to make the basic strokes, you're ready to get started. This book uses an ingenious method that makes complex rhythms magically emerge out of simple sequences of body movements. Within days you'll be playing world-beat and funk grooves that usually take months...
Double Bass Drumming Explained Part 2
The Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Expand and improve your double bass drumming abilities with this collection of beats and exercises designed to utilize the skills featured in the first Double Bass Drumming Explained book. Once you know the right techniques, the next step is to apply them to key exercises and real-world double bass...
Drum Kit Secrets
52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers,...
I Drum, Therefore I Am
Being and Becoming a Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. But kit drummers are increasingly difficult to ignore. While exponents of the drum kit are frequently mocked in popular culture, they are also widely acknowledged...
by Pete Riley
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Through a series of graduated exercises, the secrets of how to play riffs, fills and breaks are opened up to the beginner and the whole concept of drumming laid bare.
EMUSIK Drums for Beginners
1st Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Welcome to EMUSIK Drums for beginners. This book was designed to give a fun and simple approach to playing the drum kit at beginner level. No matter what your age, if you’d like to get started on the drum kit, this book is for you.
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Each of the 17 songs from Abbey Road are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique...