Drum Tablatures

Expand your musical depth and bring new levels of power and speed to your drumming! Orchestrate sticking patterns into drum grooves. Open up and explore the fundamental rudiments, singles, doubles, flams, pa...

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you play yo...

Learn to play the drums instantly with this revolutionary method for students of all ages! Written by Ron Savage, Chair of the Ensemble Department at Berklee College of Music, this book/CD pack teaches first...

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 for his work with Parliament Funkadelic, Jerome Brailey is a true legend and in this program he teaches you his best-kept secrets. Learn how to play funk ...

The World Beat Rhythms series explores rhythmic styles from different regions of the world. The hybrid compositions and rhythms in this book/CD pack are influenced by the popular Akom, Adowa and rhythms from...

Percussion Institute of Technology instructor Ed Roscetti gets inside the styles and grooves of blues drumming with applications for rock, funk and jazz approaches to the blues. This package includes: a CD w...

Playing two bass drums or using a double bass drum pedal can prove to be very challenging. With this book, you will practice foot control exercises, and increase your endurance, independence, and creativity....

This compilation features 28 useful drum lessons by Chuck Silverman with play-along tracks on the accompanying CD. His influential methods explain how to groove better and develop creative approaches to musi...

Motivic Drumset Soloing focuses on the art of drumming, the techniques and philosophies behind it, and the paths leading toward a more fulfilling and musical drumset experience. This book fills an important ...

This tribute to Gretsch kits features full-color photos and interviews with sensational players like Louie Bellson, Jimmy Cobb, Chuck Flores, Phil Grant, Jake Hanna, Elvin Jones, Don Lamond, Charlie Persip, ...

Become a more versatile drumset player! From traditional Dixieland to cutting-edge hip-hop, Instant Guide to Drum Grooves is a handy source featuring 100 patterns that will prepare working drummers for the s...

This easy-to-follow DVD drum tutor will take you step-by-step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing track. Fully enhanced and packed with extra features including easy-to-use ...

Performing in a big band, and accurately interpreting a big band drum part, can present a challenge to beginning and experienced drummers alike. This book by the founder and publisher of Modern Drummer magaz...

The 26 traditional drumming rudiments are the foundation of American rudimental drumming. This collection of rudimental examples and roll charts will aid the learner in mastering the rudimental language. Joh...

If you're a table-top drummer, Instant Drumming is for you. Here is a fun guide to the world of beat, rhythm, and personal percussion. Instant Drumming takes the mystery out of African and Latin rhythms...

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you play yo...

The World Beat Rhythms series explores rhythmic styles from different regions of the world. The hybrid compositions and rhythms in this book are influenced by the popular Samba, Olodum, and Baiao styles of B...

Written by the publisher of Not So Modern Drummer magazine, this is an essential guide for collectors-to-be that want to shop around, or for current collectors to discover drums outside their area of interes...

Designed for musicians on the move, this compact book helps you learn music notation, riffs and licks, syncopation, rock, blues and funk styles, and improvisation. Method Book 1 includes over 75 songs and ex...

Designed for someone with little or no experience, this beginner drum program with world-renowned instructor Mark Manzcuk begins by teaching you parts of the drums, correct posture, proper stick grip and coo...

The Great Jazz Drummers is an excellent reference for any drummer or jazz enthusiast. It features biographies and photos of 62 influential drummers, as well as a CD featuring 16 artists to demonstrate the gr...

The ability to move around the drumset with speed, control, endurance and accuracy is an extremely important asset for today's drummer. Drumset Control, written by the founder and publisher of Modern Dr...

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 first place winner of the 1989 PAS Composition Contest this five-movement work is of international contest/recital quality.

Anthony Cirone, a former percussionist of the San Francisco Symphony and Indiana University professor of music, provides a comprehensive performance analysis of snare drum parts for the major symphonic reper...

A revolutionary method to improve your stick technique through the use of brushes! The idea is simple: since brushes don't bounce like sticks, your wrist control and grip need to be much more precise an...

This book provides challenging solos for drummers interested in supplementary lesson material or in expanding his or her recital and solo competition repertoire. Songs include: Brush Fire · Feel the Jazz · F...

Combining a variety of jazz ride cymbal patterns with coordination and reading exercises, Creative Timekeeping develops true independence: the ability to play any rhythm on the ride cymbal while playing any ...

This book/CD pack for beginners to pros is filled with practical, usable shuffle patterns that have many applications in a variety of traditional and modern musical genres. Includes: patterns for rock, blues...

Tips and instruction on playing Pop/Rock, Funk, Show tunes, Blues, Jazz, Swing, Latin, and Reggae styles with appropriate exercises. Includes a CD with demonstration and backing tracks.

This ultimate self-teaching method for drums can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group study. Offers instruction on: beats, songs and fills; all musical styles...

Written by Modern Drummer publisher Ron Spagnardi, Snare Drum Duets offers a selection of 25 challenging duets ranging in difficulty from simple to complex. A wide assortment of time signatures is used throu...

From basic rock beats and syncopation to fills and drum solos - all you need to perform like a pro is in this book! It gives you the key elements of rock drumming and teaches how to make wise musical decisio...

Through the use of an innovative mirror system, Double Bass Drumming develops each foot equally, providing the player with the maximum flexibility for playing creative patterns. The book includes: over 500 r...

An up-close look at heavy metal's leading drummer, using actual transcribed examples of Metallica hits. Accompanying CD features all musical examples.

A useful chart of the 26 Standard Drum Rudiments - the first thing beginning drummers learn!

This complete guide to music rudiments will help drummers learn: major and minor scales, note values, the circle of fifths, time signatures, chords and chord progressions, the blues progression, reading a dr...

In this DVD, noted drum instructor and performer Dick Petrie teaches the absolute beginner to master the following techniques: drum set up · matched grip stick holding · single and double stroke rolls & ...

This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio...

The World Beat Rhythms series explores rhythmic styles from different regions of the world. The hybrid compositions and rhythms in this book and CD package are influenced by the popular Rumba, Mozambique, an...

Renowned UK drum teacher Toni Cannelli gives a 90-minute step-by-step lesson covering: hand technique, reading rhythm, foot technique, playing and reading 4-4 drum beats, adding cymbals, an exercise to learn...

Exact drum transcriptions of every Carter Beauford beat from 10 of the most requested DMB hits: Crush · Dancing Nancies · Everyday · Grey Street · Jimi Thing · The Space Between · Tripping Billies · Two Step...

This is the fascinating story of professional drummer, inventor, and industrialist Ulysses Leedy and his apartment-based drum company that became the world's largest manufacturer of percussion equipment...

Peter Erskine is a world-renowned jazz/fusion drummer. This book on Erskine's concepts and techniques behind jazz drumming is for the beginning to intermediate drummer and covers topics like drum set up...

Peter Erskine is internationally renowned for his drumming skills, and equally admired for his teaching abilities. The Drum Perspective draws upon Erskine's wealth of knowledge and experience to illumin...

Beginning drummers will learn the necessary tools to start playing popular music with these method books and songbooks with CD. Includes information on: notation, different styles, rehearsal suggestions, var...

A unique method to develop four-way coordination and over-the-barline rhythmic groupings to expand your drumming vocabulary. Especially designed for today's drummer looking to develop polyrhythmic phras...

Ricky Sebastian provides drummers with tools to improve coordination for use in all styles of music. Whether it be in rock, jazz, funk, or world music, the exercises within provide a system of practice by wh...

This fantastic new addition to the rudimental literature for snare drum offers traditional-style rudimental solos presented in not-so traditional ways. These solos are fun to play, and are sure to challenge ...

This book provides challenging solos for drummers interested in supplementary lesson material, or in expanding their recital and solo competition repertoire. Also available by Sperie Karas: Jazz Drumset Solo...