Linda Lewis Everett provides a captivating account in this novel about a young African girl, captured, enslaved and transported from her home country in Africa to the unfamiliar land of America. This is the story of Abena, who was forced to be called Beulah, in a foreign and cruel new world. Experience Beulah's life story of slavery, with all of the struggles and challenges that came with losing her freedom and how the only mainstay was the calming effect she experienced when she heard and felt the drums of her beloved homeland. I STILL HEAR THE DRUMS!
“This book is the song of my middle-school heart.”—Michelle Schusterman, author of the I Heart Band! series Sam knows she wants to be a drummer. But she doesn’t know how to afford a drum kit, or why budget cuts end her school’s music program, or why her parents argue so much, or even how to explain her dream to other people. But drums sound all the time in Sam’s head, and she’d do just about anything to play them out loud—even lie to her family if she has to. Will the cost of chasing her dream be too high? An exciting new voice in contemporary middle grade, Mike Grosso creates a determined heroine readers will identify with and cheer for.
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.
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.
George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
Writers like Donald and Mike work at the grassroots level to promote and support our sport. Their love of running shines through every page of what they write. They have a unique perspective on The Running Life and make us smile and gain insight at the same time. Whether you are an experienced runner, a novice, or even a non-runner this compilation of articles will inspire. --Amby Burfoot, Editor at Large, Runners World Magazine and 1968 Boston Marathon winner As a resident of Pacific Grove, Im just like all the other runners on the Central Coast. We eagerly await the Thursday edition of the Monterey Herald so we can see what Donald and Mike are thinking and saying about The Running Life. Its great that this book will allow a wider audience the opportunity of reading these great columns.--Blake Russell, 2008 Womens Olympic Marathon Im out in Buraglio and Dove territory every year for the Big Sur Marathon. Its great to swap stories with Donald and Mike, run, and enjoy the magnificent Central Coast. They are both very knowledgeable and their articles cover every aspect of our sport. A fun read for sure.--Bart Yasso, Chief Runner, Runners World Magazine Ive always been an instinctive runner. I love to run and feel the flow. Donald and Mike capture all I love about running in their articles. They know the spirit as well as the technical side of running. I recommend this series of articles for anyone. You will really capture and understand why we love The Running Life. --Nelly Wright, Pacific Grove, California, 1984 Womens Olympic Marathon
Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and amateur musicians. Since the revival of klezmer music in the United States in the mid-1970s, Yiddish songs and klezmer dance melodies have served as the soundtrack for a resurgence of interest in Ashkenazic Jewish culture across the globe. Klezmer has taken root not only in America’s major urban centers—New York City, Chicago, San Francisco—but also in emerging Jewish music hotspots like St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Krakow, and Tokyo. Its high energy, emotionally driven sound, and evocative Yiddish lyrics have found audiences everywhere. Shpil offers an expansive history of klezmer, from its medieval origins to the present era, and its contributors encompass a cast of world-renowned musicians who have recorded, performed, and studied klezmer for years. Individual chapters concentrate on the most common instruments found in a klezmer ensemble—violin, clarinet, accordion, bass, percussion, and voice—and conclude with a selection of three songs that illustrate and exemplify the history and techniques of that instrument. Shpil includes a glossary and a discography of both classic and new klezmer and Yiddish recordings, all designed to guide readers in an appreciation of this remarkable musical genre and the art of playing and singing klezmer tunes. Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is ideal for amateur enthusiasts, musical scholars, beginning artists, and professional musicians, both solo and ensemble—indeed, anyone who wants to experience the joy of listening to and playing this thousand-year-old folk music.
From America's foremost criminal defense lawyer and author of the bestselling How to Argue and Win Every Time comes this riveting, true account of a trial that adeptly exposes the unrelenting power of the state, which so often crushes those -- guilty or innocent -- who come before the bar of justice. It could happen to you. When Sandy Jones and her teenage son were accused of murdering a real estate developer on their hardscrabble Oregon farm, the prosecution had an eyewitness to the shooting and a photograph of Sandy holding a smoking rifle. County officials kept Sandy in jail while they awaited the trial, despite ballistic evidence that strongly suggested she hadn't fired the fatal shot. The case erupted into an epic struggle between Sandy -- who was poor, different, and a woman -- and the "good old boys" of Lincoln County, Oregon, who held all the power. Though the Joneses' guilt seemed eminently clear to the county and the prosecution, Gerry Spence, renowned for his work on the cases of Karen Silkwood and Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, took the case pro bono and the courtroom battle exploded into three years of intensely moving jury trials, recounted here from the record of the case. The Smoking Gun follows Gerry Spence through his passionate arguments with two different judges and two different prosecutorial teams, his exacting jury selection, his expert questioning of the witnesses, and his incredible rapport with the jury as he fights for the rights of Sandy and her son. With a superb sense of drama and an intimate knowledge of the court system, Spence highlights the pitfalls that every defendant faces, making The Smoking Gun extremely relevant today, when our rights are being eroded and when the average American, even if innocent, is hard-pressed to obtain a fair trial.
Learn how to play 238 of the worlds Most Famous & Popular Drum Fills, Breaks, Licks and Solos, performed by the biggest names in drumming. Never before has there been a LARGER collection of Famous Drum Fills taught anywhere else before. This unique and extensive 258 PAGE book is an Easy to Follow, Step-by-Step Guide revealing how to play 100's of the worlds COOLEST fills from over 180 Songs! Just think of all the legendary drum licks available at YOUR finger tips! A powerful resource that drummers like yourself can use to vastly expand your drumming vocabulary, dip in and out of when you want to learn your favourite licks, or just simply want something new and FUN to practice. This book will give you YEARS of drumming ideas and inspiration! BOOK STRUCTURE * 238 Famous & Popular Drum Fills! * 188 Classic Songs! * 96 Drumming Legends! * 258 Pages of Lessons! Each individual drum fill features its own specific Drum Lesson teaching you not only WHAT to play, but HOW to play it too. Each lesson also includes extra notation, suggestions and practice tips where required. Check out just SOME of the songs found in this book below... 1. Achilles Last Stand 2. Africa 3. Aja 4. All Right Now 5. All The Small Things 6. Always 7. Angels Of Death 8. Apocalypse Please 9. Assassin 10. Avon 11. Baba O'Riley 12. Back In The USSR 13. Bargain 14. Basket Case 15. Behind Blue Eyes 16. Black Dog 17. Black Night 18. Blaze Of Glory 19. Blinded in Chains 20. Blood On The Ground 21. Blue Monday 22. Born To Be Wild 23. Brick House 24. Bullet In Your Head Rage 25. Bullet The Blue Sky 26. Cars 27. Chameleon 28. China Girl 29. Chuck E's In Love 30. Come Together 31. Dani California 32. Dark Eternal Night, The 33. Davidian 34. Day In The Life, A 35. Dazed And Confused 36. Diamonds and Pearls 37. Digital Bath 38. Digital Man 39. Don't Ask Me Why 40. Don't Look Back In Anger 41. Don't Speak 42. Don't You Forget About Me 43. Drive In Drive Out 44. Drop Dead Legs 45. Drum Also Waltzes, The 46. Duality 47. Dyer Mak'er 48. Every Breath You Take 49. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 50. Exit Music For A Film 51. Fat Bottom Girls 52. Fear Of A Broken Planet 53. Final Countdown 54. Fire 55. Fireball 56. First Date 57. Firth Of Fifth 58. Fool In The Rain 59. For Whom The Bell Tolls 60. Forgotten 61. Get Off My Cloud 62. Gimme All Your Lovin' 63. Give It Away 64. Good Old Music 65. Good Times Bad Times 66. Goodbye 67. Grudge, The 68. Head Over Heels 69. Heart Of The Sunrise 70. Heir Apparent 71. Helicopter 72. Hella Good 73. Hey Joe 74. Hey Jude 75. Highway Star 76. Hocus Pocus 77. Hold The Line 78. Honky Tonk Woman 79. Honour Thy Father 80. In Bloom 81. In The Air Tonight 82. Instant Karma 83. Invisible Man, The 84. Iron Man 85. It's The End Of The World 86. It's The Same Old Song 87. Jack & Diane 88. Jamie's Cryin' 89. Jammin' 90. Josie 91. Judith 92. Just Like Starting Over 93. Kashmir 94. La Grange 95. La Villa Strangiato 96. Learn To Fly 97. The Lemon Song 98. Little Lies 99. Little Wing 100. Living On A Prayer 101. London Calling 102. Lounge Fly 103. Love 104. Man In A Suitcase 105. Manic Depression 106. Metalingus 107. Minerva 108. Misty Mountain Hop 109. Misunderstood 110. Moby Dick 111. Money For Nothing 112. Murder By Numbers 113. My Generation 114. My Own Summer 115. Neon Moonlight 116. Never Enough 117. Next Year 118. Nightmare 119. No One Knows 120. No Quarter 121. Of Wolf And Man 122. One More Red Nightmare 123. Open Secrets 124. Painkiller 125. Paint It Black 126. Parabola 127. Passenger 128. Peaches En Regalia 129. People Of The Sun 130. Pretty Noose 131. Pretty Visitors 132. Pure and Easy 133. Quiet 134. Rain 135. Rat Salad 136. Revealing Science Of God, The 137. Rock With You 138. Root Down 139. Rosanna 140. Ruin
