Product Description

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Left foot; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) High hat - Left foot.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #315735 in Books
• Published on: 1978-02-22
• Released on: 1979-02-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent jazz coordination cookbook
I recently received this book and I've been working on it for more than a week. It's somehow surprising that this book is not widely known in the drumming community (at least here in Italy).
I find this book excellent. It contains many coordination exercises on 1, 2 and 3 voices (all combinations of snare drum, bass drum and hi-hat), both on swung eighths and triplets, against the jazz ride pattern. The exercises are of gradually increasing difficulty so the book would be perfect both for the beginner or the advanced jazz drummer. The review solos at the end of each chapter are musically pleasant.

Excellent!
An easy to follow progression of fundamentals leading to solos, this is a great book for staring your jazz studies. It does follow the one primary basic ride sound, but by the end I would think one would be able to improvise fairly well around that pattern.

Very promising, well designed, great book!
Wow! A great book for those who want to extend their studies to Jazz. The author has clear instructions and the exercises challenging depending on your level of experties on drums.

A must have book for those in Jazz studies!