The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson
The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson

Author: John Ramsay

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780769265247

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Alan Dawson was a legendary drummer and educator, known for his work with the top artists in jazz as well as for his 18-year association with Berklee College of Music. This new text and online audio combination was put together by John Ramsay, a prominent drummer in his own right and a former student of Dawson's. The book contains all the important techniques and concepts that Alan Dawson embraced in his own playing and subsequently taught to his students. The recordings include some remastered audio examples from actual lessons taught by Dawson himself over the years. This is a highly comprehensive textbook from a jazz master.

Beyond bop drumming
Beyond bop drumming

Author: John Riley

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781576236093

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Beyond Bop Drumming is John Riley's exciting follow-up to the critically acclaimed Art of Bop Drumming. Based on the drumming advancements of the post-bop period of the 1960s, the book and audio topics include: broken time playing, ride-cymbal variations, up-tempo unison ideas, implied time metric modulation, solo ideas, solo analysis, complete transcriptions, and play-along tunes.

Berklee Jazz Drums
Berklee Jazz Drums

Author: Casey Scheuerell

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1540021661

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(Berklee Guide). Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the tradition of Alan Dawson and other Berklee luminaries of drum education. This approach to jazz drumming presents a unique blend of four-way coordination, comping vocabulary, and soloing/improvisation concepts, infused with world rhythms. It will help you to develop a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz drums, and to develop your own personal sound and style. You will learn to: * Deepen your sense of swing and overall timing * Understand the ride cymbal's critical role in jazz time-keeping * Apply the rudimental language of jazz * Develop your independence, via some of the great Alan Dawson's signature exercises and "The Rudimental Ritual" * Play brushes and brush patterns * Improvise captivating drum set solos * Incorporate world rhythms into jazz * Read and interpret drum charts

New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming
New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming

Author: Herlin Riley

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780897249218

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This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.

Phrasing
Phrasing

Author: Russ Gold

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876391495

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(Berklee Guide). Advance your creativity and command of the drum set. Phrasing will help you expand your vocabulary by using standard rudiments and exciting rhythmic concepts, making your playing more conversational, dynamic, and focused. First, you'll learn a core set of phrases that are the basis for all the exercises. Then, each of the 50 lessons applies rudiments and innovative stickings to the phrases to explode the rhythmic potential of standard practice routines. This process will give you a comprehensive drum set vocabulary that you can bring to all groove styles. 52 minutes of video demonstration and audio play-along tracks are accessible online for download or streaming, using the unique code inside this book. Online audio/video is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary

The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming (Music Instruction)
The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming (Music Instruction)

Author:

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1476865353

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(Percussion). Bobby Rondinelli of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult and master teacher Michael Lauren from the Drummers Collective have put together the most comprehensive text ever written on the subject of double bass drumming. It features hundreds of innovative warm up, beat and fill exercises, tips for getting started, a discography of important double bass recordings, plus a timeline of the most important double bass drummers in history, including photos of their setups. A must for all drummers interested in improving their double bass technique!

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for the Modern Drummer
Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for the Modern Drummer

Author: Steve Langone

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781499374599

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The book introduces rhythmic concepts that can be used by drummers or any musician to expand his or her rhythmic repertoire for improvisation or composition. It combines concepts taught to the author by Alan Dawson with South Indian Konnakol syllables. It is a comprehensive study of polyrhythms that allows drummers to delve deeply into modern rhythmic concepts. Also available on AMAZON.COM!!!

Time Functioning Patterns
Time Functioning Patterns

Author: Gary Chaffee

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1994-10

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780769234779

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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.

A Funky Primer for the Rock Drummer
A Funky Primer for the Rock Drummer

Author: Charles Dowd

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781457434563

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This best-selling, progressive encyclopedia of rock/funk patterns for all tempos utilizes a new contemporary teaching style for independence, rudiments, styles and more.

4-Way Coordination
4-Way Coordination

Author: Marvin Dahlgren

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1999-10-23

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1457466406

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Proficiency as a drummer has always come from great hand dexterity. However, with the introduction of modern drumming techniques, it has become increasingly necessary to gain complete independence of both the hands and feet. With various rhythmic exercises in easy-to-read notation, 4-Way Coordination is designed to guide the drummer from simple patterns to advanced polyrhythms. Through the study of this method book, the student will gain invaluable listening skills and techniques that will provide insight to drumming in all styles.