 | Jim Chapin Speed Power Control Endurance
Buy used from: $125.00 A master demonstrates the right way to play the snare! Watch Jim show you the right way to get a bounce and rebound off the most critical drum in your kit.
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 | It's Your Move by Dom Famularo
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $12.00 Start with the hands and the snare. Great descriptions of Chapin's video (and more)! Dom puts into words what Chapin does on video, and more. A Vastly underrated book.
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 | Stick Control for the Snare Drummer by George Lawrence Stone
Buy used from: $9.95 All the beats (and patterns) fit to play (and learn). A must! verything you learn here you can use to move around your kit. This is a basic for every drummer out there.
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 | Rockin' Bass Drum by John Lombardo
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.99 Let's bring your bass drum foot into the picture! I can't think of a better beginner bass drum book! You'll learn how to get your bass foot off the beat and into odd rhythms.
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| The compleat jazz drummer by Joel Rothman
Good luck finding it but if you do, this is ALL the practice sheet music you'll ever need to play jazz!
This book is a large compendinum of Rothman's other smaller jazz books, and it's about an inch thick!
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 | Funk Drumming by Jim Payne
Buy used from: $7.98 Jim Payne puts out GREAT books, and may be the best drum book author out there! His ability to take you thru a steady progression of learning without feeling overwhelmed is amazing.
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 | Mel Bay Studio: Jazz Drum Cookbook by John Pickering
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $6.07 Jazz -- step by step -- phrase by phrase and measure by measure till you "get it"! If you want to learn basic jazz drumming, this is the book you should start with -- hands down!
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 | Creative Timekeeping for the Contemporary Jazz Drummer by Rick Mattingly
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $5.50 An excellent treatise on ridin' the ride and more to different rhythms. You'll learn different ride patterns and beat batterns together to make you a more versitile drummer.
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 | The Art of Bop Drumming (with CD) by John Riley
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.89 Get back to the roots of jazz -- great CD set as well!
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 | Mel Bay The Drummer's Cook Book by John Pickering
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $3.95 Another great Pickering book of more rock beats than you can count! Pages after page of progressively more difficult 2 bar drumming rhythms. This will get your rock juices flowing!
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 | Give the Drummers Some!: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul by Jim Payne
Buy used from: $89.92 Fill your need for funk with history of the players & their beats! Both an education and a history of funk, if you like funk you can;t go wrong here!
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 | The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.90 There is more to music than what you play....
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 | Soul of the Funky Drummers
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.81 Soul food for the drummer! See the masters of early funk drumming (James Brown's drummers) demonstrate and play what they know best.
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 | Brushworks: The New Language for Playing Brushes (Book & CD) by Clayton Cameron
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $23.95 More brush-work than you thought possible!
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 | The Sound of Brushes by Ed Thigpen
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $28.46 Learning brushes? You need this!
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 | The Essence of Brushes
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $14.71 Great DVD and fun to play along with!
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 | The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $7.60 Feet's don't fail me now...
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 | The Commandments of R&B Drumming: A Comprehensive Guide to Soul, Funk and Hip Hop by Zoro
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $15.00 History of funk, with samples and all! The man KNOWS his roots -- and yours!
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 | The Drummer's Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco by Mick Berry
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $19.83 An amazing compendium of drum beats with accompanying CD's -- expensive but worth it!
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 | 4-Way Coordination: A Method Book for the Development of Complete Independence on the Drum Set
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.71 Break the standard playing patterns with this volume and attain true independence!
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