Download or read book Jazz Workshop for Bass and Drums written by Dave Weigert and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book & CD set can help drummers and bassists gain valuable playing experience in jazz, funk, and Latin jazz styles. The CD features 16 play-along tracks with parts and playing suggestions for each tune. Jazz classics by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins are included along with funk tunes by Pee Wee Ellis, Russell Ferrante, and others. The book explains in detail how to play in bands and how to practice effectively. Reading topics include jazz history, chart reading, feel, song form, and musician's vocabulary. The rhythm section includes Berklee faculty bassists Bruce Gertz, Oscar Stagnaro, Bruno Raberg, and Anthony Vitti. Soloists are Billy Pierce, Hal Crook, Ken Cervenka, and Walter Beasley. Educators may also benefit by referring students to the carefully notated rhythmic feels.
Download or read book Jazz Workshop for Bass and Drums written by Dave Weigert and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Bop Drumming written by John Riley and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.
Download or read book The Drummer s Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson written by John Ramsay and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Dawson was a legendary drummer and educator, known for his work with the top artists in jazz as well as for his 18-year association with Berklee College of Music. This new text and online audio combination was put together by John Ramsay, a prominent drummer in his own right and a former student of Dawson's. The book contains all the important techniques and concepts that Alan Dawson embraced in his own playing and subsequently taught to his students. The recordings include some remastered audio examples from actual lessons taught by Dawson himself over the years. This is a highly comprehensive textbook from a jazz master.
Download or read book Jazz Time Part One The Basics written by Frank Briggs and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 120 drum set exercises designed to help the beginning to intermediate drummer develop coordination, independence and accompanying skills between the snare and bass drum while keeping steady jazz time on the ride cymbal. The play-along tracks will help students develop the ability to recognize the 12-bar blues and 32-bar AABA form, two of the most popular song forms in jazz music. Practicing with the tracks will also help you develop better clock time and should inspire some creative interaction with the recorded music. Exercises include patterns using quarter notes, quarter and eighth note combinations, and triplets and other combinations. The 32-bar AABA song form is practiced with andwithout drums, and at slow and fast tempos with a bass track. The 12-bar blues form is practiced with various combinations including drums, bass, both, or neither. All tempos from the audio are indicated in the book. A helpful glossary of musical signs and symbols is also included. Includes access to online audio
Download or read book Rhythm Section Workshop written by Shelly Berg and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fix any rhythm section for less than $80! Perfect for instrumental jazz ensembles, small group combos, vocal jazz ensembles, and praise and worship bands!
Download or read book The essence of jazz drumming music written by Jim Blackley and published by Barrie, ON : Paper Giant Entertainment. This book was released on 2001 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhythm Section Workshop written by Shelly Berg and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fix any rhythm section for less than $80! Perfect for instrumental jazz ensembles, small group combos, vocal jazz ensembles, and praise and worship bands!
Download or read book Berklee Jazz Drums written by Casey Scheuerell and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the tradition of Alan Dawson and other Berklee luminaries of drum education. This approach to jazz drumming presents a unique blend of four-way coordination, comping vocabulary, and soloing/improvisation concepts, infused with world rhythms. It will help you to develop a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz drums, and to develop your own personal sound and style. You will learn to: * Deepen your sense of swing and overall timing * Understand the ride cymbal's critical role in jazz time-keeping * Apply the rudimental language of jazz * Develop your independence, via some of the great Alan Dawson's signature exercises and "The Rudimental Ritual" * Play brushes and brush patterns * Improvise captivating drum set solos * Incorporate world rhythms into jazz * Read and interpret drum charts
Download or read book The Jazz Drummer s Reading Workbook written by Tom Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 2 playalong CDs.
Download or read book Jazz Traditions A Collection of Drum Set Teaching written by Greg Williamson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of lessons is an easy-to-grasp musical philosophy of practical jazz drumming, from a professional jazz drummer who learned from the masters. The lessons are based on a simple way of approaching the jazz ride cymbal, and applying that concept to the whole drum set. For advanced players and beginners, this will change the way you play.
Download or read book Studio Jazz Drum Cookbook written by John Pickering and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of thecontemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer isexpected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effectivemethod of dealing with the mastery of drum set coordination by breaking it down into four sections: 1) Ride Cymbal - Right hand; 2) Snare Drum - Left hand; 3) Bass Drum - Right foot; 4) Hi-hat - Left foot. The author clearly states his goals in writing this book: It is my sincere wish that the materialspresented in [this] text will be of considerable help in developing musical approach to the coordination skills demanded of today's drummer. -John Pickering
Download or read book Beyond bop drumming written by John Riley and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Bop Drumming is John Riley's exciting follow-up to the critically acclaimed Art of Bop Drumming. Based on the drumming advancements of the post-bop period of the 1960s, the book and audio topics include: broken time playing, ride-cymbal variations, up-tempo unison ideas, implied time metric modulation, solo ideas, solo analysis, complete transcriptions, and play-along tunes.
Download or read book Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer written by Ted Reed and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.
Download or read book The Jazz Theory Book written by Mark Levine and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
Download or read book Latham Advanced Funk Studies written by Alfred Publishing Company, Incorporated and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 1993-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harold Jones written by Joe Argo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singers Drummer chronicles the music and times of Harold Jones, a world class musician whose career spans the last five decades of jazz and big band swing music. This book highlights Jones career as he evolved into the drummer of choice for some of our most popular vocal legends. But it is about much more than that. It also gives us an entertaining insight into life on the road and is filled with Harolds insightful, sometimes humorous, anecdotes and musings about the famous sidemen, legendary jazz musicians and vocal headliners he has known; featuring more than 100 photos of his renowned friends. Read The Singers Drummer and learn why Paul Winter called Harold the Michael Jordan of young jazz drummers in Chicago. Read why Harold became acknowledged as Count Basies favorite drummer. And why Tony Bennett says This book is a knockout! I am happy that someone is finally putting together a history of what really happens on the road!
