Full of essential tips and exercises to improve a drummer's most important techniques, the Drumset SMART (Style-Mechanics-Applications-Routines-Tips) book is a text with easy to understand terminology. Steve explains the mechanics and musical aspects of drumming as if he were teaching a lesson one on one. Whether you are just beginning your studies, or are an experienced player, this SMART book to drumset can be used as a resource for instant solutions at your finger tips. Companion CD is included.
The exercises in this text can help develop your coordination, reading and ability to swing in odd time signatures. If practiced thoroughly, you will gain the facility and the confidence to express yourself musically.
With the Modern Drum Method Grade 2, Steve Fidyk picks up where Grade 1 leaves off continuing his sequential teaching method and guiding the intermediate student through the most fundamental drumming concepts.The exercises in Grade 2 focus significantly on reading dotted note and rest values, rock, funk and swing beat variations, techniques for tuning the drum set, and a section featuring 2, 3 and 4 beat drum fill examples. the accompanying mp3 CD features every exercise covered in the text.A supplementary DVD entitled Modern Drum Method Grades 1-3 is also available and features many of the concepts and exercises introduced in all three method books.If you are a new drum student who has just purchased your first kit, or an experienced player looking for ways to improve your fundamentals and sound production, this book series can help clarify many of the mechanical and conceptual drumming skills for you. Throughout, Steve explains each drumming topic as if he were teaching a private lesson.• Reading exercises featuring dotted whole, half, quarter and eighth notes and rests
The Modern Drum Method takes the student measure by measure from the start with the most fundamental drumming concepts presented and demonstrated in a clear manner.The exercises in Grade One focus significantly on reading note and rest values, coordination of the hands and feet, simple quarter note beats with variations, and ideas on positioning and setting up your drum set ergonomically.If you are a new drum student who has just purchased your first kit, or an experienced player looking for ways to improve your fundamentals and sound production, this book and companion CD will help clarify the mechanical and conceptual drumming skills for you. Throughout, the author explains each drumming topic as if he were teaching a private lesson.• Fundamental techniques for the hands and feet
Inside the Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind drum method that usestraditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazzensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form, ensemble phrasing, articulation, and interpretation. For each arrangement, there is 'talk through' information explaining how the composition is played as well as transcriptions of key beats and melodic information that connects the 'written drum part' to the music. The 248 page book includes a 2.5 hour audio available online and an hour long video demonstrating every exercise in the text. Also included areanecdotes and interviews with legendary big band drummers and arrangers such as Louie Bellson, Jake Hanna, Phil Wilson, Mark Taylor and Bob Curnow.Includes access to online audio/video
Full of essential tips and exercises to improve a drummer's most important techniques, the Drumset SMART (Style-Mechanics-Applications-Routines-Tips) book is a text with easy to understand terminology. Steve explains the mechanics and musical aspects of drumming as if he were teaching a lesson one on one. Whether you are just beginning your studies, or are an experienced player, this SMART book to drumset can be used as a resource for instant solutions at your finger tips. Companion CD is included.
Inside the Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind drum method that usestraditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazzensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form, ensemble phrasing, articulation, and interpretation. For each arrangement, there is 'talk through' information explaining how the composition is played as well as transcriptions of key beats and melodic information that connects the 'written drum part' to the music. The 248 page book includes a 2.5 hour audio available online and an hour long video demonstrating every exercise in the text. Also included areanecdotes and interviews with legendary big band drummers and arrangers such as Louie Bellson, Jake Hanna, Phil Wilson, Mark Taylor and Bob Curnow.Includes access to online audio/video
With the Modern Drum Method Grade 2, Steve Fidyk picks up where Grade 1 leaves off continuing his sequential teaching method and guiding the intermediate student through the most fundamental drumming concepts.The exercises in Grade 2 focus significantly on reading dotted note and rest values, rock, funk and swing beat variations, techniques for tuning the drum set, and a section featuring 2, 3 and 4 beat drum fill examples. the accompanying mp3 CD features every exercise covered in the text.A supplementary DVD entitled Modern Drum Method Grades 1-3 is also available and features many of the concepts and exercises introduced in all three method books.If you are a new drum student who has just purchased your first kit, or an experienced player looking for ways to improve your fundamentals and sound production, this book series can help clarify many of the mechanical and conceptual drumming skills for you. Throughout, Steve explains each drumming topic as if he were teaching a private lesson.• Reading exercises featuring dotted whole, half, quarter and eighth notes and rests
The exercises in this text can help develop your coordination, reading and ability to swing in odd time signatures. If practiced thoroughly, you will gain the facility and the confidence to express yourself musically.
The Modern Drum Method takes the student measure by measure from the start with the most fundamental drumming concepts presented and demonstrated in a clear manner.The exercises in Grade One focus significantly on reading note and rest values, coordination of the hands and feet, simple quarter note beats with variations, and ideas on positioning and setting up your drum set ergonomically.If you are a new drum student who has just purchased your first kit, or an experienced player looking for ways to improve your fundamentals and sound production, this book and companion CD will help clarify the mechanical and conceptual drumming skills for you. Throughout, the author explains each drumming topic as if he were teaching a private lesson.• Fundamental techniques for the hands and feet
The Fantastic Feet books have been endorsed by Peter Erskine, Colin Bailey, Russ Miller, Frank Briggs, Casey Cangelosi, Steve Fidyk, and Ted Atkatz. Drum Set Freedom--Fantastic Feet, Volume 2 joins with its predecessor Fantastic Feet--Stepping Outside the Box to offer you the most comprehensive set of studies available for the development of hand/foot equality for drum set players of any style of music. By training with the double bass drum pedal, we can develop the freedom we need to play any idea we can imagine without friction or road blocks when we go back to the bass drum/hihat configuration of the traditional drum set. Also shown are different pedal design and good seating options for RELAXED and HEALTHY execution of these materials. Included in this volume 2 of Fantastic Feet are sections on dribbling the pedal board for blazing speed, the MOELLER dribble, rolls between the hands and feet, and control strokes. However this volume was also written to take principles discussed in Fantastic Feet--Stepping Outside the Box even further with additional chapters on flam patterns for the feet, single stroke and accent studies, exercises to bolster and strengthen the double stroke roll and additional double pedal grooves. We will also "flirt with infinity" by having you improvise foot patterns underneath certain suggested hand patterns and the last chapter entitled "The Extra Mile" will fill in any gaps with sections on grooves with paradiddles on the feet, groove studies with foot ostinatos, Phat Flam Feet, advanced foot accent studies, creative orchestrations of subdivisions with the hands and Whole Body Synergy. A special Appendix with Graduation Etudes discusses the "Push-Pull" technique for the hands and tests you with challenging grooves and patterns that should be possible for you after enough time has been spent working on the Fantastic Feet and Fantastic Hands project! The intent here is to help you take your musical expression at the drums to a deeper level. Much luck and success!
Steve Hofstetter, the mind behind Observational Humor, provides an uproariously funny look at everything college--from dating to dining halls to doing your own laundry.
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