Rock Drumming

by Griffiths, Andy

• ISBN13: 9780947183356
• ISBN10: 0947183353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-02
• Publisher: Koala Pubns

Summary

A comprehensive, lesson by lesson guide covering all aspects of playing drums in a group; including Rock techniques and timing, Solos, Rolls, Fills, Syncopation and Rudiments. This book is divided into three main sections, 50 lessons in all; lesson one through 22 cover Eighth Notes, Syncopation, Dotted Notes, The Triplet and Accents. Lesson 23 through 35 begins with Drum Rudiments winds up with Four stroke Ruff, Six Stroke Rolls Flam Accents. By section three, lessons 36 through 50, you are well on your way to discovering 12 / 8 time, Mambo, Rock-N-Roll Mambo, Jazz Mambo, alternative sticking and even Syncopated Rock Beats and Reggae Beats.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Incl. Approach to Practice)	5	(1)
Drum Picture and Parts	6	(1)
Seating, Choosing the Drum Sticks and Practice Pad	7	(1)
Holding the Drum Sticks	8	(2)
Rudiments of Music	10	(2)
SECTION ONE
Right and Left Hand Ex. Snare and Bass Drum	12	(2)
Quarter Notes, Ride Cymbal, Hi-Hat and Drum Beat	14	(2)
Eighth Notes	16	(2)
Eighth Note Bass Drum Beats, Drum Solo 1	18	(2)
Snare Drum Studies	20	(1)
Syncopation	21	(1)
3/4 Time	22	(1)
Sixteenth Notes	23	(2)
Exercises Around the Drums	25	(2)
Fills, Drum Solo 2	27	(3)
Eighth and Sixteenth Note Combinations	30	(3)
Advanced Fills	33	(2)
Dotted Notes	35	(1)
Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Note Combinations and Beats	36	(2)
Sixteenth Note Rests and Beats	38	(1)
Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Note Rock Beats and Fills	39	(3)
Rhythm Review, Drum Solo 3	42	(4)
Quarter Note Cymbal Pattern	46	(2)
Shuffle Rhythms, Drum Solo 4	48	(2)
The Triplet	50	(2)
Sixteenth Note Triplets	52	(4)
Accents	56	(4)
SECTION TWO
Drum Rudiments, Rudiment No. 1 (Long Roll)	60	(1)
Rudiment No. 2 (Single Stroke Roll), No. 3 (Flam)	61	(2)
Rudiment No. 4 (Flam Tap), Time Signatures - Simple and Compound Time	63	(2)
Rudiment No. 5 (Flam Accent), No. 6 (Flamacue)	65	(1)
Rudiment No. 7 (Single Paradiddle), No. 8 (Flam Paradiddle)	66	(3)
Rolls, Rudiment No. 9 (5 Stroke Roll)	69	(2)
Rudiment No. 10 (7 Stroke Roll), No. 11 (9 Stroke Roll)	71	(1)
Rudiment No. 12 (10 Stroke Roll), No. 13 (11 Stroke Roll)	72	(2)
Rudiment No. 14 (13 Stroke Roll), No. 15 (15 Stroke Roll)	74	(2)
Rudiment No. 16 (Double Paradiddle), No. 17 (Flam Paradiddle-Diddle), Triple Paradiddle	76	(2)
Rudiment No. 18 (Ruff), No. 19 (Single Drag), No. 20 (Double Drag), No. 21 (Drag Paradiddle No. 1), No. 22 (Drag Paradiddle No. 2)	78	(1)
Rudiment No. 23 (Single Ratamacue), No. 24 (Double Ratamacue), No. 25 (Triple Ratamacue), No. 26 (Lesson 25) And Lesson 25 Inverted	79	(1)
Four Stroke Ruff, Six Stroke Roll, Flam Accent No. 2	80	(3)
SECTION THREE
12/8 Time	83	(2)
Latin American Beats	85	(1)
Mambo, Rock And Roll Mambo, Jazz Mambo	86	(2)
Bossa Nova, Fast Samba, Slow Rhumba, Clave Rhythm	88	(1)
Jazz and Independence Studies	89	(2)
Advanced Independence Studies	91	(3)
Jazz Fills Using Swing Beat, Brush Rhythms	94	(3)
Rock Beats Using Sixteenth Note Cymbal Pattern	97	(2)
Disco Beats	99	(2)
Disco Beat Variations	101	(1)
Alternate Sticking	102	(2)
Rock Beats Using Sixteenth Note Triplets	104	(2)
Syncopated Rock Beats, Reggae Beats	106	(2)
Additional Beat Studies	108	(2)
Introduction Fills	110	(2)
Appendix One - Tuning	112	(1)
Appendix Two - Groups, Copying Beats and Fills From Records	113	(2)
Glossary of Musical Terms	115