Style Studies for the Creative Drummer
Style Studies for the Creative Drummer

Author: John Xepoleas

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1993-11

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780757910760

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A collection of studies on rock, jazz, and Latin rhythms designed to increase a drummer's versatility. Each study contains basic rhythms plus practical variations---all proven successful in numerous playing situations. Includes John's phrasing techniques which are applied to all the rhythms. With discography and audio, this revised and updated method provides a perfect base for the teacher and student to help focus on the three main genres of music.

Stick Control
Stick Control

Author: George Lawrence Stone

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2013-11-06

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1457433761

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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.

Drum Lessons with George Lawrence Stone
Drum Lessons with George Lawrence Stone

Author: Barry James

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781470643393

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Based on the author's recollections of their studies and conversations with George Lawrence Stone, this companion book to Stick Control contains a series of lessons and lectures on the art and technique of drumming as originally developed and taught by George Lawrence Stone.

The Art of Bop Drumming
The Art of Bop Drumming

Author: John Riley

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780898988901

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Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.

Complete Funk Drumming Book
Complete Funk Drumming Book

Author: Jim Payne

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-02-09

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1610655036

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This is the most complete presentation of today's popular funk drumming style available. This book takes you from the very roots of rock and rhythm`n'blues drumming to the highly complex, multidirectional funk styles of today. He also details certain subtleties heretofore only a seasoned veteran would understand. While most drum instruction book concentrate on developing technique, reading ability, or independent coordination, this unique book accurately documents what is hip in rock`n'roll drumming today. the contents are geared to prepare the student for survival in a live playing situation. the book is a valid representation of what people want to hear from a drummer in a working situation - live or in the studio. It contains exercises drawn from many different influences covering coordination, rhythms, patterns, and phrasing.

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.

Uncharted
Uncharted

Author: Bill Bruford

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2018-01-17

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0472053787

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What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers experience creativity in performance and offers fresh insights into in-the-moment interactional processes in music. An expert practitioner himself, Dr. Bruford draws on a cohort of internationally renowned, peak-career professionals and his own experience to guide the reader through the many dimensions of creativity in drummer performance.