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Mel Bay The Drummer's Cook Book
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Product Description
Take your creativity to another level with this book! Rock music is, or should be, a form of personal expression. This text was written to encourage and develop the drummer's ability to create and develop his own ideas from a solid foundation. This is one in a series of books that deals with one of the most important aspects of rock drumming that of rhythmic improvisation. Topics covered in this book are: The Rock Feeling, The Variations and Development of a Basic Figure, Rhythmic Improvisation, Solos, and Cymbal Variations with the Right Hand.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1024121 in Books
- Published on: 1993-01
- Released on: 1972-12-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Spiral-bound
- 80 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Frank Briggs is a musician, teacher, and clinician in the Los Angeles area. His credits include international and domestic touring and recording with various artists, and numerous pubications.
Customer Reviews
A Bible for drummers
This book is great! It helps you develop your rhythmic improvisation. This book shows so much teqnique! This is one of Mel Bay's greatest drum book titles! This really helps you develop your rock style for todays rock drumming. This book helps you develop many rock variations, it's great. I really love this book! I suggest you try it, you'll definitley like it as much as me!
A New Approach
This is a great book because it builds varations over a given rhythm unit and shows you that subtle changes can lead to interesting variations.
Once you know a rhythm and can make variations on it, it becomes yours in a way that most music instruction books miss with their examples.
An excellent title but...
This is NOT for rank beginners by any stretch. The majority of the book provides a number of two bar rhythms to practice along with 8th and 16th note hi-hats. Almost all of the beats require a good 16th note ability on bass and snare drum and if you haven't got this down yet, this is the wrong book for you.
While I definitely recommend this book as an excellent volume, I suggest Jim Payne's Funk Drumming book as a precursor. It will take you to where this book really begins.
Also, this volume is NOT set up anything like Pickering's Studio Jazz book (which I also own and highly endorse). So if you already own that volume, expect a very different approach from this one.
