Drum Tablatures

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

Level III.

Duet for Snare Drums and Piano.

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

The Spanish-language version of this popular method that was written to teach the basics of the drum set in the shortest amount of time. This unique method is a beginning course that starts the student out o...

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...

This book contains seven advanced solos in a variety of styles geared for the advanced percussionist. These solos provide excellent performance material for recitals and solo competition, and are perfect for...

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...

Designed to take a player with basic reading skills to an advanced level of jazz drumming. Contains six sections, each with 10 pages of exercises. Includes: Eighth-Note Patterns Between the Snare and Bass Dr...

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...

Exercises and studies for basic orchestral and ensemble playing. Includes rudiments to strengthen both hands and improve reflexes while developing rapid stick technique. Includes 24 exercises for the student...

You don't even need drums for this method - just two hands and an attitude! You'll learn music notation, beats and fills, syncopation and improvisation, and rock, blues and funk styles. Includes ov...

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...

The FastTrack method series is a fresh, user-friendly approach to learning with a method book which blends traditional lessons and songs with modern elements of humor, wit, and pop culture. Each book include...

The FastTrack method series is a fresh, user-friendly approach to learning with a method book which blends traditional lessons and songs with modern elements of humor, wit, and pop culture. Each book include...

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...

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...

This intermediate to advanced-level book presents interesting and challenging etudes for snare drum based on the rhythms of contemporary music, including a variety of time signatures, shifting meters and a f...

This book was designed to give players a concise approach to improving technique by examining specific areas such as singles, doubles and multiples, paradiddles and flams. It includes an extremely helpful 20...

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...

Here's the perfect resource for guiding you through those initial encounters with the beginning drum set player. This concise, clearly-written text gets right to the basics, such as tuning the drums, se...

FastTrack is a quick way for beginners to learn to play an instrument. These DVDs make the perfect companion to the successful method books and CDs - teaching you what you need to know to get playing right a...

This guide provides plenty of space for teacher and student to create complete multimedia lesson plans, track progress, and create transcriptions. There are 21 two-page spreads of lesson assignment sheets wi...

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 ...

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...

From Tadd Dameron through Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Cannonball Adderly and Benny Golson, to his own 17-piece Supersound big band, Charli Persip has been one of the most in-demand drummers in all of ja...

Choosing the best hardware components for your playing style can sometimes be a mysterious process. Drum Hardware is the first book dedicated to helping you make the right choice when you purchase, set up an...

The intricasies of solo work on the drum set using sixteenth notes as basic foundation is just as important as the triplets found in Volume 1. Volume 2 uses R.H. Straight 8ths independently against the left ...

All of the rhythms included in this book were taken from Volume 1. Volume 3 clearly shows how rhythms can be changed into rolls without losing any syncopated effects.

These rhythms were taken from Volume 2 and placed in this volume to show how rhythms can be changed into rolls without losing their syncopated effects.

Written as the follow-up to the first four volumes in the series, this book focuses on left hand and right foot facility, using triplets as a foundation.

This book serves the same purpose as Vol. 5, but with a sixteenth-note foundation. It should increase the drummer's left hand/right foot coordination - a necessary skill for playing contemporary music.

8 songs, including: Brown Eyed Girl · Great Balls of Fire · I Want to Hold Your Hand · Oh, Pretty Woman · Wild Thing · Wonderful Tonight · You Really Got Me · Your Song. The CD includes full-band tracks for ...

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...

You've been through FastTrack Drums 1 several times, and you're ready for more...Drums 2 begins right where Drums 1 ended - you'll learn more beats and fills, chart reading, rudiments, and ton...

The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality CD with 99 full-demo tracks and spoken instruction. This drum series can be used by student...

Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of drum music! With its 80+ great songs and examples, this book/CD pack covers: more beats, songs and fills; playing tips and techniques; rock, country, ...

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 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 ...

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...

If you're interested in playing drumset in a church setting or worship group, this unique book/CD pack is for you. Praise and Worship Drumming by percussionist and teacher Cary Nasatir is a clear and co...

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 includes: rudiments · study o...

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...

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...

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...

This is your complete guide to programming and thinking like a drummer - not a drum machine user. Instead of merely providing instructions for you to program into your machine, this book is a direct, mathema...

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 ...

Covers 26 rudiments and etudes in various time signatures.

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

This book will help the intermediate to advanced drummer achieve a more efficient and complete practice routine. Includes exercises designed to organize skills into a streamlined percussion workout, focusing...