Product Description

Morph those boring 26 standard rudiments you learned into mind-blowing grooves, fills and solos!All that rhythmic sophistication you hear from great drummers can easily be broken down into its basic elements: the rudiments. Rudiments are the drum language: a basic vocabulary of rhythms that drummers arrange and rearrange when they play grooves, solos and fills. This book shows you how to apply them to the drum set in all styles of music. When you start combining the hands and feet, orchestrating different parts of the rudiments between the various drums and cymbals on your set, you'll start to make inspired music.Fifty illustrated grooves are reinforced on the accompanying CD so you can hear how the rudiments should sound when you apply them to the drum set. Discover how these basics become the foundation for all grooves and moves, including: single and double strokes; stroked rolls; drags; flams; paradiddles, double paradiddles, paradiddle grooves and fills; combinations and more.Your choices of accents, tempos, style and feel are what will ultimately make the rudiments into music. Learning and internalizing them will help you expand your vocabulary to play creative grooves, fills and solos. Use Rudiment Grooves for the Drum Set to create an infinite number of combinations, in any style, and at any tempo.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #313358 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

About the Author
Rick Considine is a Hal Leonard Author

Customer Reviews

Really good!
I like this book Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set. After practicing some of these grooves, it has tightened up my playing. I've been playing for several years and my biggest weakness is drum fills. These grooves based on the drum rudiments gave me a library of drum fills to play when the music calls for it. The most significant thing this book offers is that not only does it teach you the groove but it teaches you how to play them in time making them sound musical thereby tightening up your sound on the drums. In order to fully appreciate what the book has to offer, you really have to practice these grooves until they become second nature to you. Once I got the grooves down, it just simply made my drum playing sound more mature. Thanks, Rick Considine, for your contribution to the drum world of music.

Rick is the man
I took from Rick while I attended Berklee - he is the man...period. His classes/lessons were based on this book (he was writing it while I attended) and it really gives you the tools you need to become your own person behind the kit. This will make you a better player with a larger vocabulary. I am always trying to come up with new ways to apply the rudiments. Now - you can have Rick's class without the Berklee tuition - however, Rick's humor is worth the price of the credit hour alone. He sets you straight...and this book will set you straight too.

Excellent material - NOT for beginners
I bought this book based on the recommendations here. It's clearly a book I will be returning to soon and offers a wealth of ideas for the application of rudiments across the drum set.

A little warning is due though...this book provides a list of the 26 rudiments, but then dives head first into some very challenging exercises. It's a little above my pay grade for now - and I'm not really a beginner.

Listening to the CD could actually be discouraging, because Rick's tempos are basically obscene - so fast in fact, that it's nearly impossible to read the music and listen at the same time for comprehension.

That being said, these exercises are clearly worth the effort and seem to do a great job of emphasizing rudiments and variations you're likely to be weak in - such as reverse paradiddles, double strokes played in triplet feel, off accents etc.

My overall feeling is that this is no book for beginners, but contains a wealth of insight for really rounding out your technique - recommended!