Drum Practice Journal

Drum Practice Journal

Author: Tools for the Muso

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-04-07

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781093157307

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It is widely agreed that to become a better player on your instrument requires deliberate and deep practice in that area. Research showed that 10,000 hours of effective practice is the key to mastery. By making a habit of logging your focused practice time will most definitely be beneficial to anyone striving to increase their abilities and achieve their dreams. If you're truly dead serious about that instrument you want to play professionally, it's time to step up your game, start tracking those hours, and do the work! This drum practice log/journal is the perfect tool for that purpose. Each section contains a weekly planner to write down your key goals and tasks for the week. Knowing what you are aiming for is one of the keys to success in any field. Following that are 5 daily practice pages with space to list technical exercises, tempo markings and time spent on each task. You can also record any particular pieces that you are working on and note down your own observations. Used daily, this log will help you record approximately 20 weeks' worth of practices. You will be able to look back over your practice and measure how close you are to reaching your goal milestones. Features A practice log book with weekly and daily records Great for Musicians, Students and Teachers Perfect gift for drummers Includes space for goal setting and recording time, bpm 122 Pages, Handy 6x9" size fits in your schoolbag, pocket, or rucksack White Paper, paperback soft cover


Modern Drummer Presents Stick Technique (Music Instruction)

Modern Drummer Presents Stick Technique (Music Instruction)

Author: Bill Bachman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1476856532

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(Book). Culled from Bill Bachman's popular "Strictly Technique" articles in Modern Drummer magazine, this book will help players develop hands that are loose, stress free, and ready to play anything that comes to mind. The book is for everyone who plays with sticks, regardless of whether you're focusing primarily on drumset, orchestral percussion, or the rudimental style of drumming. Divided into three main sections Technique, Top Twelve Rudiments, and Chops Builders the book is designed to get you playing essential techniques correctly and as quickly as possible. Also includes a bonus section two-hand coordination and independence.


The Best Beginner Drum Book

The Best Beginner Drum Book

Author: Jared Falk

Publisher: Drumeo

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1999151917

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If you want to have more fun on the drums, improve your skills faster, and play along to real music, then you need to build a solid foundation. The Best Beginner Drum Book gives you a clear path for getting started on the drums and skipping the frustrating obstacles that most new drummers face: setting up your kit, holding the drumsticks, learning notation, creating catchy beats and fills, learning musical styles, and playing your favorite songs.


Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Author: Jordan Sonnenblick

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0545231167

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A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author! Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost).He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band (whose members call him the Peasant), has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn't even know he's alive), and is constantly annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven's world is turned upside down, and he is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, his homework, the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you'll have to read the book to find out what that is!).


Are the Drums for You?

Are the Drums for You?

Author: Elaine Landau

Publisher: Lerner Publications

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0761362711

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The drums are a blast to play and fun to learn. Drummers play in many types of groups from rock to pop to jazz. The band Led Zeppelin had hard-rocking drum rhythms. Even Beyoncé dances to the beat of the two drummers in her band Suga Mama. But are the drums right for you? Or would a different choice be better? Hear what professional drummers like about their instrument, and learn what skills a good drummer needs. Discover whether the drums are your best choice for making music.


Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Author: Russell Hartenberger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 131677676X

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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich provides a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming, to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians. It addresses performance issues encountered by the musicians in Reich's original ensemble and the techniques they developed to bring his compositions to life. Drawing comparisons with West African drumming and other non-Western music, the book highlights ideas that are helpful in the understanding and performance of rhythm in all pulse-based music. Through conversations and interviews with the author, Reich discusses his percussion background and his thoughts about rhythm in relation to the music of Ghana, Bali, India, and jazz. He explains how he used rhythm in his early compositions, the time feel he wants in his music, the kind of performer who seems to be drawn to his music, and the way perceptual and metrical ambiguity create interest in repetitive music.


Sporting Blackness

Sporting Blackness

Author: Samantha N. Sheppard

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0520307798

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Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.


Alfred's Drum Method

Alfred's Drum Method

Author: Dave Black

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780739036365

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"Rudimental studies, roll studies, reading studies, actual drum parts, contest solos, bass drum & cymbals"--Cover.


Kick it

Kick it

Author: Matt Brennan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0190683864

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The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.