Coggins,Kevin/Barrett,David: Mel Bay's Blues Drums Method

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Blues Drums, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, contains over 250 examples of blues drum patterns and technique-building exercises! Subjects covered in this book are: The History of Blues Drumming: Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound: Exercises for Development of Technique (Sticking and foot patterns specific to playing blues): Blues Shuffles & Swing Beats, Slow Blues, Ballads and the Triplet Groove (12/8 Time): Blues Rhumba, Calypso Beats and Samba Feel: Two-Beat/Cut Time: Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats: New Orleans, Soul and Funk Influences: and Build-ups & Fills. This book is accompanied by an online audio recording of all examples played on thedrums with the backing of the School of the Blues All-Star Band. It is recommended that you also purchase Blues Drums Play-Along Trax to have full-length play-along trax for you to apply what you learn in this book. Includes access to online audio.

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Table of Contents
About the Author & School of the Blues Lesson Series
About this Book
The History of Blues Drumming
Chapter 1 - Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound
Chapter 2 - Basic Principles of Music
Subdivision Chart & Notation Key
Chapter 3 - Exercises for Development of Technique
Duple Sticking Patterns (Ex. 3.1) - Track 2
Triplet Sticking Patterns (Ex. 3.2)
Duple and Triplet Foot Patterns (Ex. 3.3-3.6_ - Track 3
Ride Pattern Exercises (Ex. 3.7-3.9) - Tracks 4-5
Swing & Shuffle Ride Pattern Played on Snare Drums (Ex. 3.10-3.11)
Rudiments Applied to Shuffle Sticking (Ex. 3.12)
The Flam and Flam Tap (Ex. 3.13-3.19) - Track 6
Eighth Note Accent Exercises (Ex. 3.20) - Track 7
Triplet Accent Exercises (Ex. 3.21) - Track 8
Chapter 4 - Blues Shuffles & Swing Beats
Blues Shuffle - Brushes Focus (Ex. 4.1-4.6) - Track 9
Blues Shuffle - Sticks Focus (Ex. 4.7-4.16) - Track 10-11
Blues Shuffle - Hi-Hat Focus (Ex. 4.17-4.21) - Track 12
Blues Shuffle - Bass Drum Focus (Ex. 4.22-4.34) - Track 13
Jazz Shuffle (Ex. 4.35-4.37) - Track 14
Backward Shuffle (Ex. 4.38-4.44) - Tracks 15-16
Shuffle with Swing Ride/Snare (Ex. 4.45-4.56) - Tracks 17-19
Chapter 5 - Slow Blues, Ballads and the Triplet Groove (12/8 Time)
Ex. 5.1-5.19 - Tracks 20-21
Chapter 6 - Blues Rhumba, Calypso Beats and Samba Feel
Sticking Patterns for Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats (Ex. 6.1) - Track 22
Foot Patterns for Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats (Ex. 6.2-6.6) - Track 23
Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats (Ex. 6.7-6.21) - Tracks 24-26
Blues Bossa Nova (Ex. 6.22-6.23) - Track 27
Something Bluesy, But Not Swing (Ex. 6.24-6.26) - Track 27
Changing from a Latin Groove to a Shuffle/Swing Groove (Ex. 6.27) - Track 28
Chapter 7 - Two Beat/Cut Time
Ex. 7.1-7.10 - Tracks 29-30
Chapter 8 - Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats
Early Rock 'n' Roll (Ex. 8.1-8.8) - Track 31
Surf Beat (Ex. 8.9-8.19) - Track 32
Chapter 9 - New Orleans, Soul and Funk Influences
Ex. 9.1-9.15 - Tracks 33-36
Chapter 10 - Build-ups & Fills
Build-ups (Ex. 10.1-10.5) - Tracks 37-38
Shuffle & Swing Drum Fills - Chapter 4 (Ex. 10.6-10.23) - Tracks 39-42
Slow Blues & 12/8 Feel Drum Fills - Chapter 5 (Ex. 10.24-10.30) - Track 43
Rhumba, Calypso & Latin Drum Fills - Chapter 6 (Ex. 10.31-10-35) - Track 44
Two-Beat Drum Fills - Chapter 7 (Ex. 10.36-10.37) - Track 45
Early Rock 'n' Roll & Surf Beat Drum Fills - Chapter 8 (Ex. 10.38-10.39) - Track 46
New Orleans, Funk & Soul Drum Fills - Chapter 9 (Ex. 10.40-10.45) - Track 47
Glossary of Terms
Thanks & Musicians

 

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