Hal Leonard Hits the Mark with Instructional Drum Books
MILWAUKEE - Drumroll, please: Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest publisher of songbooks and music educational materials, will unleash some superb new instructional drum titles at NAMM!
Jeff Salisbury, a drumset professor at the University of Vermont and faculty member of KoSA Percussion Workshops, wrote Melodic Motion Studies for Drumset: Directional Strategies for Exploring New Sounds from Familiar Stickings (HL00122224 / Book + Online Audio). The book is packed with exercises that will enable drummers to develop a high degree of fluency getting around the drum kit when playing fills or solos. These musical exercises - in rock, jazz & Latin styles - explore some of the infinite possibilities relating sound to a variety of motions to develop freedom of movement on the drums. The book includes access to audio tracks for download or streaming, with most examples played at slow and fast tempos.
Progressive Rock Drumming (HL06620109 / Book + CD) by Dan Maske explores the drum styles of the founding prog rockers and shows how drummers can create their own drumset parts based on these techniques. While this book explores some advanced techniques, it also teaches drummers how to create original and inventive parts without the need to play in a demanding virtuosic style. The book covers a variety of styles, including such subgenres as symphonic, classical, fusion, neo-progressive, progressive metal, Rock In Opposition (RIO), and space rock. The accompanying CD contains demos and play-along tracks (with and without drums) for nine songs, and the book includes charts plus condensed band parts to help readers see how the drum part relates to the song, resulting in a very musical approach to progressive rock drumming.
New from Berklee Press, Henrique De Almeida's Double Bass Drum Integration (HL00120208 / Book + Online Audio) helps jazz/fusion players integrate double bass drums into their beats. Two bass drums provide more power, speed and flexibility, allowing players to create new dimensions of drumbeats. These timetables and other road-tested exercises methodically introduce double pedal patterns into your beats, helping you play them intuitively, and revealing new playing possibilities. Includes access to 38 online audio tracks for download or streaming. These pedaling techniques and patterns will be useful in helping you keep time, and playing solos and fills in jazz, funk, rock, world and any style of drumming.
50 Syncopated Snare Drum Solos (HL00119645 / Book + Online Audio) by Sperie Karas takes you systematically through the land of syncopation, starting with 4/4 time, and on to odd and changing meters. The mastery of these solos prepares drummers for today's musical scene, giving them the control and security for the most demanding contemporary musical challenges in jazz, pop and rock. The book helps improve reading skills, and is applicable to the drumset as well. It's ideal for competition and concert performance.