This book is designed to take the drummer to new heights in limb independence and melodic thought. with the use of repeated patterns played between 2 or 3 limbs on the drum set (the Ostinato), the drummer plays melodic rhythms and phrases around the toms with the available limb(s) over the ostinato. with over 60 pages of Ostinato exercises plus 4 challenging solos at the end, there is no other book like it.

Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.

A must have for all drummers wanting to take their drumming to that extreme level of performance. Popular Mel Bay drum instructional author, Rob Leytham has written five drumset solos and three play-alongs that are fun and challenging to play. Instructors will love having new and dynamic material for recitals and contest. the five drumset solos are written in different styles: Rock, mozambique, 5/8 fusion, 6/8 Afro-Cuban, and a Double Bass Heavy Metal solo that will bring an audience to it's feet when performed. with three play-alongs, the drummer can perform and solo to a Classical Rock song, a Christmas Song, and a Percussion Ensemble (including score) that is inspired by World Drumming music. A fun and challenging book for the intermediate drummer looking for something extreme.Written by popular Mel Bay drum instructional author, Rob Leytham.Solos written in different styles: Rock, Afro-Cuban, Mozambique, Fusion, and Heavy Metal.Fresh and dynamic solos for recitals and Music Festivals.Fun play-alongs for the drummer to perform and solo to.Score for a percussion ensemble included.

Drummers all around the world try to out do each other on who can play the fastest paradiddle. If you go to any music competition or percussion recital, one would hear a dozen snare drum solos played at blazing speeds. That's what comes to mind when talking about the drum rudiments and technique - speed and how can I play them faster! I like to look at the rudiments in a different way. I learned them so I could play interesting ideas and phrases around the drum set with ease. It is not necessarily about playing fast. If you think back to your school days and having to learn vocabulary words, the more words you learned the more intelligent you were able to speak. You were also able to communicate your ideas easier. If you think of the rudiments as words, then the more of them you know and can play, the more interesting your music and drumming will be. And if you need to be able to play something at a fast tempo then you will have the technique to play it. After many years of teaching drum set to young drummers, I find the most enjoyable way for the student to learn the rudiments is through solos. The student is able to hear and perform the rudiment in context. Sort of like using that new vocabulary word in a sentence. In this book, I have written 12 drum set solos built around the rudiments. Each new solo will use a new rudiment with some containing more than one to learn. The solos will also list and use rudiments played in previous solos. This repetition will embed the "stickings" into the mind of the student. The last solo is a combination of all rudiments used and the student gets to create his or her own rudimental solo in four measure phrases. I hope you enjoy playing these solos and learn to create some new musi­ cal drumming ideas in your own playing.

A drum book for any drummer tired of the same old drumbeat books and any drum instructor looking for challenging and musical solos, popular Mel Bay educational drumset author, Rob Leytham, has written a book of eight drumset solos that will challenge the drummer to new musical heights which will amaze judges at contests, audiences at recitals and drum instructors in private lessons. A must for any serious drummer! Companion CD included.

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 performance tips. The two accompanying CDs feature performances of nearly 200 of the grooves, including every primary style example, all performed both with and without a click track. Styles covered include blues, rock, jazz, reggae, country, klezmer, ska, samba, punk, surf, heavy metal, latin rock, and funk; virtually every style a performing drummer will ever need to play is in there. This revised second edition also includes an updated bibliography and discography, as well as more historical information about the individual styles.

Patterns is one of the most comprehensive drum methods available. Covering a wide range of materials, the books can be used in any order, or in any combination with one another. They are a must for developing the kinds of skills necessary for drumset performance. Time-Functioning Patterns includes materials dealing with rock cymbal ostinatos, jazz independence, and the new linear phrasing concept that Gary developed.

This book gives exercises for the development of control and technique for playing drums.

An extensive step-by-step method on the application of polyrhythms for the drumset. Expands drum solos and fills by incorporating polyrhythms to basic time. This book also lends itself as a source for extending rhythmic comprehension while the drummer is improvising.

This book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, author Frank Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. Briggs states, He believes the more you know about different styles and the inner workings of time and phrasing, the better your ability to contribute to themusic at hand. The clearer you see the parallels or the common threads thattie these concepts together, the more freedom you will have to express yourself. The music is challenging and suitable for the advanced drummer. Styles include odd meters, metric modulation, tuplets, funk, Latin, mid and up-tempo swing, andfusion.This set includes access to online audio. which is a play-along for drums with full stereo versions of the music charts included in the book. Sketch, Electric, Red Moon, Home, Funky Track, Jazz Swing, and 32Bar are recorded with drums and without drums (the tracks without drums include a click track) so that the student can listen and play-along. Solo sectionsare included on most of the tracks. Instrumentation is drums, bass, keyboards and sax. The companion video online:Re-edited from the original masters, this video offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer.All special effects have been removed and the sound track has been encoded in Dolby Digital stereo. Twenty-one play-along tracks, CueLink(tm) and a metronome make this video the most valuable cutting edge educational tool for drummers on the market today. This video features complete performances of Red Moon, Home, Along the Mohawk, Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is performed... including page headers and pattern numbers for easy reference)