Product Description

Subjects include: basic rock rhythms * rock polyrhythms * contemporary disco beats * syncopation exercises * hi hat studies * fills * double bass exercises * shuffle rhythms and linear rudiments. Also includes a special CD that corresponds to the exercises Appice offers in the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99586 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 84 pages

Warner Brothers Publications
Subjects include: basic rock rhythms * rock polyrhythms * contemporary disco beats * syncopation exercises * hi hat studies * fills * double bass exercises * shuffle rhythms and linear rudiments. Also includes a special CD that corresponds to the exercises Appice offers in the book.

Customer Reviews

This is the one!
For teaching drumset, this is the method I love. The book teaches reading and counting by way of many different beats/grooves in simple 1 and 2 measure phrases. If you do the different variations for each beat as described in the front of the book your coordination will go through the roof!

I still like to use Haskell Harr for rudimental teaching. Using them both together gives students the best of both worlds.

I highly recommend this book. (And for the younger students, get the one written for younger kids).

The only negative thing about this book is that they didn't make each exercise a seperate CD track so some of them are hard to locate. If they did that, it would be perfect!

Great All Round Book
Its a classic, a must have. 9 out of 10 drummers you talk to will tell you they own a copy and played through it at some point in their drumming career. Its a great all round book that shows you a lot of drumming aspects like beats, fills, time signatures and so on... everything you need to learn as a beginner. I would say the only drawback is that its not for complete beginners... perhaps it would be a good second or third book.

Ultimate Realistic Rock
This time tested volume still offers a great foundation for beginner to intermediate level drummers. The cd's are a nice addition but only provide 'performance' tempo examples of some of the exercises, as opposed to something that assists the student in progress from a learning tempo to 'realistic' bpm. It also would benefit from more one and two handed 16th note exercises that are written out as opposed to being a variation of the recommended 18 different ways to use the book. I understand that there is an upcoming dvd to accompany the book and cd's. Looking forward to it Carmine!