I have them purchase books along with a spiral bound blank manuscript book for additional thoughts / exercises. Depending on the student's level and interests, the books I generally use are: - Haskell W. Harr Drum Method - Book One & Two - Charlie Wilcoxon 150 Rudimental Solos - Charlie Wilcoxon Modern Rudimental Swing Solos For The Advanced Drummer - Stone - Stick Control - Keith Copeland Creative Coordination for the Performing Drummer - Ted Reed - Syncopation - Dahlgreen and Fine - 4-way coordination book - Joe Morello's Master Studies - Gary Chester's New Breed. Beginners start with: Syncopation Stick Control Blank Notebook More advanced snare/reading: Primary Handbook for Snare by Garwood Whaley Wilcoxin - All-American Drummer Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm Drumset: Funky Primer Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials Specific transcription books, like Zeppelin, Green Day, whatever they're into.
Jazz: Art of Bop Drumming Syncopation (again) Steve Houghten Reading Anthology Philly Joe Brush book. I have them download this, only because it's out of print. Otherwise students buy all books. Yes, it's illegal to reprint without permission. Vic Firth.com has a lot of free educational materials. Mallets: Fundamental of Mallets by Garwood Whaley Masterpieces for Marimba Timpani: Raynor Carroll's book. Everything else I tend to write in their book.
I use Finale for transcriptions and do transcribe specific songs for students, like before a recital or concert, or if it's something they're really going to get a lot out of. I have them purchase books along with a spiral bound blank manuscript book for additional thoughts / exercises. Depending on the student's level and interests, the books I generally use are: - Haskell W.
Harr Drum Method - Book One & Two - Charlie Wilcoxon 150 Rudimental Solos - Charlie Wilcoxon Modern Rudimental Swing Solos For The Advanced Drummer - Stone - Stick Control - Keith Copeland Creative Coordination for the Performing Drummer - Ted Reed - Syncopation - Dahlgreen and Fine - 4-way coordination book - Joe Morello's Master Studies - Gary Chester's New Breed VERY good list of books. Basically all essentials. I'd add David Garibaldi's future sounds, and gavin harrison's rhytmic illusions to this list, for extra fun. VERY good list of books. Basically all essentials.
I'd add David Garibaldi's future sounds, and gavin harrison's rhytmic illusions to this list, for extra fun Thank you! I have also used Future Sounds with a couple who express additional interest in that genre but it's only been a few. Though, the book helps much more than just that genre for sure. I'm glad someone else is familiar with Keith Copeland book. I took a few private lessons with him as well as sat in for 3 years during a summer camp he used to give locally. So most of you guys use the notebook approach, do you actually write out the exercises (i.e, notation) or is it more of just a list of things to practice? Thanks for the suggestions, I'm going to check out a number of them.
The Wilcoxin book looks like a good one:) What version of Finale do you guys use? I tried the most basic one, it wasn't much use, but I imagine the better versions have more functionality? Finale Notepad (the $10 version) seemed worthless to me. The next step up, Song Writer ($50) does everything I need it to for drum stuff.
Which is the best book for learning to read music and rhythmic theory, with explanations of note values, time signatures, etc? I have a copy of Syncopation on order but don't know if it has this stuff in it. Also can you guys recommend a good rock drumming book, something with lots of grooves and fills for beginner - intermediate?
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I also have the Wilcoxin - All American Drummer book on order. Saw some samples on Amazon and can't wait, I have been looking for something like it for years. Thanks for the help guys. Picked up my second student today, really enjoying teaching and hope I can make something of it:).
Which is the best book for learning to read music and rhythmic theory, with explanations of note values, time signatures, etc? I have a copy of Syncopation on order but don't know if it has this stuff in it. Syncopation is all about what you put into it. I mean the rhythms in syncopation, you could play the book as if it's in 7/4 not, 4/4 and play say the snare as what's written in syncopation. That's why it's such a good book.
I highly suggest you get a teacher that's VERY familiar with that book to help you learn rhythmic theory/reading. Syncopation is all about what you put into it.
I mean the rhythms in syncopation, you could play the book as if it's in 7/4 not, 4/4 and play say the snare as what's written in syncopation. That's why it's such a good book. I highly suggest you get a teacher that's VERY familiar with that book to help you learn rhythmic theory/reading. Think you misunderstood my question. I'm mainly looking for materials to use for teaching others, not just myself.
I need something with a few pages explaining note values, time signatures, all that jazz, to suggest students buy. I understand most beginner drum books contain this information, but I'd also rather they buy something that has enough material to last for a while. Btw - if you played it in 7/4.that would be 1 & 3/4 bars, what do you do with the last beat?
From an interview with drummer Shannon Leto, of the pop band 30 Seconds To Mars (who are evidently inducing seizures in pre-teens the world over right now) in this month's Modern Drummer. This exchange, in which Leto tells of a “jazz workshop” audition when he was younger, jumped out at me: SL: “.they wanted everyone to read music, and I didn't know how. So I was nervous. The song we needed to rehearse was Yes's “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” So I thought, I know this song— I got this! But when it was my turn to audition, the conductor guy, who I thought was my homey, my friend, throws this sheet music at me, and I took it personally: Man, he knows I don't read music. I looked at it, thinking I could get by on what I remembered from hearing the song on the radio, but I got all sweaty and basically blew the audition. MD: “You actually stopped playing for a long while after that.” SL: “Yeah, I did.
I stopped playing because, at that time and age, I felt betrayed by someone I looked up to in a way. music and drumming was my art, my life— it was the only way I expressed myself. I took it personally at the time, so I walked way from drumming for a while.”.and that's the end of discussion of the topic.
No indication that he has updated his feeling that it was a betrayal of trust for the teacher to not let him skate by, unable to read. His ego got bruised because a teacher exposed a gap in his abilities, and rather than swallow his pride, accept that he had something to learn, and learn it, he quit. Remember that thing I said was my art, my life? Well, my idiot pride was more important, and I gave that up. As it turns out, my ego is my life. But he ended up the winner!
He's rich now, and no one can make him learn anything ever again. Here's the band— only you can help them break 49 million views. After the I got excited to do more film photography, and what better way to motivate myself to do that than to BUY MORE GEAR. Usually that's a bad idea; GAS, the American disease, is an ugly thing. But I haven't bought a camera in six or seven years, and part of the reason I legitimately don't shoot as much film as I used to, is that my digital camera (a late-oughts ) is so much easier to carry around than my serious 35mm rig, an — a great camera, but rather bloody heavy. The D40 is light enough that I actually take it places with me, and get pictures when the opportunities arise. So, upon — photo gear geek Ken Rockwell— I discovered a couple of good late “prosumer” 35mm options that are basically dirt cheap, and lighter than the N90S.
I needed something that would be compatible with the Nikon gear I already own, so I went ahead and got an for $45, plus a zoom lens for another $45ish, for a total cost of about $100, with shipping. I could've spent another $50-100 for the heavier, slightly-more-pro F100, which I've coveted for a long time, but since weight is an issue, and I haven't been taking enough pictures to justify the small added expense, I got the N80.
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About this camera: The N80 offers features I want that the F100 lacks, and except for the slow flash sync speed seems to lack nothing significant. Overall, this is an easy camera to love.
It is very light, quiet, and feels like it has a shutter at least as smooth and quiet as the F100. In fact, I suspect that the N80 may have a smoother mirror and shutter mechanism than the F100, and therefore may give sharper results with long lenses on tripods. Unless you need the durability, fast sync speed or can write down some very serious specific reason you need a fancier camera, this is probably a better camera for most people then an F6 or F100. Simple: it's lighter and cheaper. If you are on a budget then save your money for what matters: the lenses. Heck, who cares if it's plastic: you can throw one away and buy a second one and some film for the same price as just one F100. I may have gotten one of these instead of an F100 if it was out in 1999 when I got my F100.
Continued after the break. I've got a bunch of unfinished stuff on deck, so we'll just keep doing GOTDs until I can get it together and be a writer.
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And what the hell, let's do one of me. The record is, something my old band Flatland recorded in about 2000, in a dump of a studio in the part of Portland called “felony flats.” We got a lot of time on the cheap, and got our rehearsed material out of the way pretty quickly, which freed us up do some free playing and experimenting. This piece, The Secret Agent, was just something we improvised with no forethought at all— I had our guitarist, Matt Wayne, overdub some psychedelic textural stuff, and that finished the piece. We find a tempo in the first few seconds, and the groove develops within the first four measures that I'm actually playing time, and then hangs on that for the rest of the piece, with fills and variations. That, and the melody spontaneously composed by Matt Wayne, our guitarist, gives the piece some unity.
This groove isn't anything I'd ever played before; clearly all the parts follow from the Reed-like cymbal pattern. That's what you get for 90 bucks DID I MENTION THE FREE SHIPPING?!!!!!!! Look at this monkey: Don't think about the $90.
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That's how my brain works on my first cup of coffee. h/t to Bull @ Drummerworld. They obviously don't quite get why people are buying these books, but OK. Here's some good news: a student of mine brought in a new copy of Charley Wilcoxon's Rudimental Swing Solos, and it appears the current publishers of Wilcoxon's books have recognized the, and have begun selling the books in their original form. The covers are new, and quite goofy, but the actual contents have their older, presumably Wilcoxon-approved layout. As we've documented, there are several annoying typos in Rudimental Swing Solos, but Rolling In Rhythm is really just a horrible, unusable mess in the Sakal edition.
I'm very much looking forward to comparing editions there— I'm guessing it will be a real bloodbath. I would to ensure you're not getting old Sakal-edition stock. Just did a little photo job, and realized something I should've figured out years ago— well, it something I knew about, but wasn't exploiting.
If you aren't conversant in basic camera lingo, you might want to review my old post before reading on. First, a few facts: 1.
Every Nikon lens ever made fits every Nikon SLR body ever made, film or digital. You may lose auto-focus, coupled metering, TTY flash, or other features, but you can take pictures in some capacity.
My old 50mm/f1.8 AF lens that came with my main 35mm film camera, a 90's vintage Nikon N90S, works on my main digital rig, a mid-oughts vintage “prosumer” Nikon D40, except I lose auto-focus. My older, non-AF 50mm macro lens also fits on the D40, but I lose almost all features. I just focus and set the aperture manually on the lens, and get the exposure by trial and error, reviewing the picture after I shoot it. Nikon been fiddling with that formula a bit in recent years, but it's always been their thing. That is not the case with the other major pro company, Canon, who rendered their customers' very expensive lens collections obsolete when they switched to auto-focus. 50mm fixed focal length lenses are some of the cheapest, fastest, sharpest, most versatile lenses in the world.
It used to be the standard lens that came with all 35mm SLRs. On a 35mm camera, a 50mm lens is referred to as “normal”— meaning that, looking through the viewfinder, things are the same size as they are just looking with your eyes. Lenses for 35mm cameras have a longer functional focal length when used on digital bodies. So, a 50mm lens used on my D40 body is functionally about the same as an 85mm— a short telephoto, basically a standard portrait lens— on my 35mm camera. So, the cheap zoom lens that came with my Nikon D40, while very nice, — the maximum aperture is f3.5 at wide angle, or f5.6 at telephoto, making it of limited value in low-light situations, while severely limiting selective focus as a creative option. Basically, the lower the lowest f-stop number a lens is capable of, the more useful the lens is in low light— you can have faster shutter speeds, making it easier to avoid blur from camera shake; and the more control you have over depth of field— you can have some things out of focus, if you want. Usually you have something like this forced upon you; everything in the frame is basically in focus.
We got lucky here, and the background is a little softer, so the picture isn't real unpleasant to look. Often, everything will be in exquisitely sharp focus, which is dazzling to the eye, but expressively limiting. And of course, all three pictures were taken with the same 50mm/1.8 lens, so I can do all this, and anything in between. The cost of 35mm gear seems to rebounded a bit after cratering a few years ago, but you can still get a bargain-grade 50mm/f1.8 AF lens for. You can get a manual focus version for about $40.
Since you lose auto-focus with these lenses anyway, the only additional feature you lose by getting the fully manual lens is automatic aperture control; with my AF lens, the camera still controls the exposure. But again, since you're shooting digital, and can look at your pictures as you shoot them, you're not losing much there. And I should mention, if you're at all into photography, that there is really no excuse for not having a film rig. It can be very hard to forgo the convenience of digital, but film really is a different, very special animal. It could look an awful lot like I'm phoning it in with all of these Pages o' Coordination— well, but that's not to say the pages aren't useful. Each one serves a special purpose, and I play through at least two of them every day. Today's entry is just a little addendum to the, which started this series.
If you learned that page well, your learning curve here should be very shallow indeed. Here we're making the shortest possible meter-within-meter phrase out of if, playing the ostinato over two measures of 4/4. Remember, what we are doing with the jazz-oriented POCs especially, are just calisthenics, approximating the densest playing you may do during a piece of music.
Hopefully we're laying the groundwork for some interesting and unexpected things to happen during those very dense parts of the music. UPDATE: The link is now working. All reet, I've gotten my hallway and kitchen painted, and finished getting my teeth and gums viciously probed, if only for the time being, so let's get back to the drum stuff. Here is a set of linear exercises for the drum set, based on the first exercises in Stick Control.
Need for speed undercover cheats ps3 unlock bugatti veyron. The application is so basic it's almost not worth taking the trouble to write it out, except, as you'll see, we'll take it to a slightly different place. Doing this for Stone exercises 1-13 will take up quite a few pages, so we'll have to take these a couple at a time; first, Exercises 1 and 2, RLRL and LRLR. As you can deduce from looking at the page, we are basically playing the right hand on the cymbal, doubled with the bass drum, playing the left hand on the snare drum, and adding hihat on 2 and 4. We'll swing the 8th notes; that, plus the added hihat make these “jazz” exercises, but you can adapt them to any style you want, of course.
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Looking at the second line of each part, the connection of my exercises to the source pattern may be a little obscure, but you should be able to grasp it intuitively as you play the exercises as a group. Note that on the quarter note triplet exercises, the hihat is still on beats 2 and 4. There was a period in time when hip hop really rocked. This is the groove from Night Of The Living Baseheads, from Public Enemy's album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. I've credited the production team for the drum groove, which is a composite a programmed part and at least one sample. There were trade-offs to make human-playable beat; there are some additional unaccented notes on the snare drum, which you might be able to pick out and play, if you switch to a straight 8th note rhythm on the hihat.