Hal Leonard

As contemporary jazz changes and incorporates new styles into its mainstream, today's drummers are often faced with new stylistic challenges. This guide will help any drummer learn how to make smooth...

This book demonstrates the role of the left foot as an important facet of learning to play drumset. You'll learn to develop better timing and consistency through a series of exercises designed to impr...

Now packaged with a CD, this bestselling book is designed to help players gain an extremely high level of coordinated independence for rock drumming performance, thereby freeing all four limbs from de...

This drum guide teaches exercises and grooves based on such Brazilian rhythms as baião, samba, maracatu and frevo. Its purpose is not only to present these traditional rhythms, but also to provide too...

The concept behind The Visual Drumset Method is to use pictures instead of normal music notation to illustrate how to play basic drum beats. Practice along with the individual drum beats on the Online...

Can you learn how to swing? Yes, and this book will show you how, giving you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common, comfor...

The Evolution of Jazz Drumming presents a complete historical overview and analysis of jazz drumming. Designed as a guide and workbook for the high school, college level, and professional drummer, it...

Straight-Ahead Jazz Drumming provides a step-by-step method devoted to unlocking the mysteries of the jazz drummer's role as an accompanist. Author Jeff Jerolamon has gone beyond the mere coordination...

Whether you are a beginning drummer or a working professional, you'll find that the use of electronics has become standard practice. This book is a comprehensive study of all things electronic. Author...

Being able to play a fast or complex rhythm is pointless if it doesn't have a good feel. Groove Studies will help intermediate players focus on applying the skills and concepts they have already learn...

Andols Herrick, longtime drummer for Chimaira, presents this unique book/DVD pack essential for heavy metal drummers. The topics covered include: double bass beats; hand exercises; time signature mani...

Maracatu for Drumset and Percussion explores the traditional Brazilian rhythms of the Maracatu de Baque Virado, which originated in the Candomble religion but have expanded to provide the rhythmic fra...

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 per...

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

Topics covered in this two-volume collection include: 16th-note feels, double time feels, melodic scales, fusing high-hat patterns, odd time signatures, paradiddle jazz inversions, bass drum independe...

Revised by Les DeMerle Drum Center Publications Topics covered in this two-volume collection include: 16th-note feels, double time feels, melodic scales, fusing high-hat patterns, odd time signatures,...

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,...

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 playi...

Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the...

This beginner's guide for anyone learning to play the cajon takes you through the basics of the instrument and its techniques. The accompanying online videos include demonstrations of many examples in...

A complete guide to what the working contemporary percussionist needs to know to be successful by today's musical standards. Covers the congas, bongos, timbales, djembe, and the use of 'toys, ' all in...