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.
Contents:
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
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