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: #389794 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

About the Author
Rick Considine is a Hal Leonard Author

Customer Reviews

Anybody have a copy of the CD??
i have a copy of the book but i gave away the cd by accident when giving away one of my beginner snare rudiment books. when i finally got to this book with my playing i realized that i had made an accidental switch and some kid has a really advanced cd to learn snare drum too :P I can trade for a cd that you may have lost. i have a large collection of drum books so if you may have misplaced one or can help me out then let me know. the book is great though, its not the easiest to get through without the cd but it is possible especially if you have a teacher that can play the grooves so you can hear what they are supposed to sound like.

great grooves
More fills than actual "grooves", but this book will tighten up your chops. I would definately recomend this book for beginners through intermediates. More advanced players won't get as much out of it, but the exercises are worth playing through just to keep things solid. This book is a winner either way.

A bit much for beginners....
This book is fine, but it does jump right in with both feet. My son and I are learning together so I bought this book along with a couple others. If your looking for a good "beginners" book, this is probably not it. Don't get me wrong, its a good book, but maybe geared more towards the intermediate player looking to take his drumming (rudiments) to the next level. I will pick a way at some of this, but my son and I will be using another book for awhile first.