Drum Tablatures

A supplement to the FastTrack instruction book, this great songbook/CD pack features 8 great songs: All Day and All of the Night · Best of My Love · Day Tripper · Hey Joe · I Shot the Sheriff · Miss You · Sm...

This easy-to-follow, progressively graded method is great for self-instruction or classroom use. Helps new drummers learn: parts of the drum set; notes & beats; single- and double-stroke rolls; beats and...

This perennial favorite among drummers helps players develop their bass drum technique and increase their flexibility through the mastery of exercises. Also available by Bailey: Bass Drum Control Solos (0662...

Everything you need to know to play rock drums like a pro and no previous knowledge of drums necessary! Packed with solid instruction and useful photos to help you every step of the way. Complete with a full...

Develop contemporary hand drumming techniques with extraordinary speed & independence with this book/CD pack. The foundation of Afro-Caribbean music is explained, including the clave concept, and a compr...

Filmed at the majestic New Jersey Performing Arts Center, these DVDs cover the world-famous drumming event in greater depth and detail than ever before. Features include: spectacular solo and group performan...

This private lesson covers common symbols and musical shorthand, section figures and ensemble figures, accents, set-up ideas, and embellishment, and swing, big band, and other styles. The CD includes 16 full...

This groundbreaking series of interactive DVDs are much more than just ordinary lessons. Quizzes after each lesson test your skill and comprehension and provide feedback and supplemental material, just like ...

This new book takes the beginning drummer through the paces - from reading simple exercises to playing great grooves and fills. Each lesson includes a preparatory exercise and a solo. Concepts and rhythms ar...

This book contains beat fill combinations from basic to advanced levels. It is a comprehensive learning guide with hundreds of fill and solo ideas.

Written and produced by funk drumming specialist Jim Payne and recommended by drumming greats Peter Erskine, Stanton Moore, Steve Smith, Zoro, and Bill Stewart, this multimedia package combines a wealth of p...

Dispelling the mystery and simplifying the complexity of Southern India's classic Carnatic rhythmic system, Indian Rhythms for Drumset is the first book of its kind to apply authentic Indian rhythms to ...

Geared toward beginning band and orchestra students, this modern, musical approach to learning snare drum includes a play-along CD that features full concert band recordings of band arrangements and classic ...

Easy to difficult arrangements of snare drum solos that have long been standard items on contest lists. Excellent practice material.

Maria Martinez provides in-depth coverage of: Mambo, Songo, Nanigo and Mozambique patterns; cowbell and ride cymbal variations; studies to develop left-foot clave; ostinatos, rhythm studies, 2-bar phrases; a...

Use your imagination to incorporate these rudimental etudes into new patterns that you can apply to the drumset or tom toms as you develop your hand technique with the Snare Drum Rudiments, your hand and foo...

Rudimental Drum Solos for the Marching Snare Drummer provides the advancing percussionist exciting solo material in the rudimental style. Meant as a study for developing the rudiments in a musical manner, it...

These exercises will help musicians move between instruments more accurately, while enhancing their reading ability for recording work, shows and the theatre pit. Teaches how to play more melodically to gene...

Now available with CD! This best-selling instruction book was developed to meet the needs of the young student aspiring to become a drummer in the school band or orchestra. Book 1 spans 52 lessons and includ...

This excellent DVD teaches you how to put together, tune and set up your very first drum set. Drumming pro Bart Robley starts with the basics, covering in detail: opening the boxes, assembling the set, tunin...

Now with CD accompaniment! This unique method starts students out on the entire drumset and teaches them the basics in the shortest amount of time. Book 1 covers basic 4- and 5-piece set-ups, grips and stick...

This collection of solo drumset music will provide the practicing drummer with interesting ideas to explore through a varied selection of musical styles and degrees of difficulty. It will also help drummers ...

Sperie Karas, an experienced big band drummer and music teacher, presents an easy-to-grasp way of learning jazz drumming. The underlying principle of this method is to use material created in performance for...

Features transcriptions of Dave Grohl's actual drum tracks on 17 hits culled from four albums: Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide and In Utero. Includes the songs: About a Girl · All Apologies · Blew · Come...

Discover the secret phrasing of African-descent rhythms in this one-on-one lesson! MI instructor Phil Maturano teaches Relayed Time Shifting (RTS), a unique system of shifting between cut time and 6/8, and c...

Intermediate drummers can learn more drumming techniques, including double bass drum techniques, shuffle grooves, ride patterns, time feels, and more - all using the music of Metallica! Dozens of Metallica r...

Filmed at the majestic New Jersey Performing Arts Center, these DVDs cover the world-famous drumming event in greater depth and detail than ever before. Features include: spectacular solo and group performan...

In this course designed from MI core curriculum programs, Ed Roscetti unlocks the secrets of odd time signatures, covering studies in 3/4, 5/4, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and other odd-time meters. Includes com...

This book/CD pack is a fun, effective, and innovative tool for improving players' chops. The CD includes 16 complete play-along tracks; the lessons cover rock, Motown, funk, shuffle, calypso, big band, ...

The perfect way to start a beginner on the entire drumset! This informative and descriptive DVD: takes you through the basics of four- and five-piece drum set-ups (and how to tune them); illustrates the grip...

A one-on-one lesson with MI instructor Ed Roscetti, this book/CD pack teaches the feel, grooves, fills and styles you need to know for funk and hip-hop drumming. Includes lessons on: feeling the downbeats; s...

Focusing on straight rock, shuffle rock, fill-ins and rudiments, this exceptional book/CD pack covers the basic elements of hand-foot coordination necessary to know to play the modern five-piece drum set. Ac...

This companion songbook to the Play Drums Today! method books features 10 great songs: Brick House (Commodores) · 867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone) · (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) · Friends in ...

This book provides the advancing percussionist with interesting solo material in all musical styles. It is designed as a lesson supplement, or as performance material for recitals and solo competitions. Incl...

In this essential method and workbook/CD pack, Maria Martinez reveals her revolutionary studies for Brazilian drumset coordination. She covers Bossa Nova, Samba and Baiao Ostinatos, 3/4 Bossa Nova/Samba, 7/4...

This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a look at ...

It's the best drum lesson anyone could take! Primitive drums, Irish drums, Latin drums, drums from the Middle East and India: whether they're framed, staved, carved, or clay, the basics for making ...

Seasoned drummer, composer and educator Ed Roscetti gives you the nuts and bolts in a variety of rock drumming styles in this book/CD pack. Topics covered include: bass and drum connection · hard rock and gr...

One of the biggest challenges for anyone attempting to notate a drumset part is that there is no absolute standard in terms of what makes up a drumset. Through this book, the Percussive Arts Society provides...

Ready to take your playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that drummers of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying CD provid...

In this book and CD package, Frank Katz demonstrates a variety of grooves and fills for use in funk, fusion, rock and R&B. Styles such as hip hop, jazz, Latin and Caribbean music are also represented. Ma...

This method has been written to teach the basics of the drum set in the shortest amount of time. The method is unique in that it is a beginning course that starts the student out on the entire drum set. Book...

Grooves for Drums & Bass is a collection of over 200 rhythms in a wide variety of musical styles. Each rhythm is presented in different versions showing both drums and bass patterns together. The recorde...

Spice up your percussion rhythms and grooves with this book/CD pack by Brazilian native Alberto Netto! Learn to play the most popular and influential Brazilian rhythms on both traditional percussion instrume...

Drums 2 begins right where Drums 1 ended - you'll learn more beats and fills, chart reading, rudiments, and tons of popular drumming styles (rock, blues, shuffle, country, dance, pop). It also comes wit...

Play along with a real big band with this great book/CD pack. The book features authentic big band arrangements of 10 holiday classics in easy-to-read parts and the CD has great, professionally recorded acco...

This book deals with the principles, techniques, rhythms, and concepts of progressive jazz. Topics include improvisation, interaction of parts, meter-within-meter phrasing, cymbal rhythms, triplet performanc...

After extensive field-testing in the U.S. and Canada, World Music Drumming has passed all the tests! Aimed primarily at grades 6-8 with extensions into the lower elementary grades and the high school, you an...

The New Method for Afro-Cuban Drumming features Jimmy's unique approach to playing contempoary Latin rhythms on the drumset. The material represents a fusion of his experiences growing up in Cuba and sh...

Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune a Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfur...