Let your technique soar to new heights with eight solos and dozens of exercises tailor-made for intermediate and advanced players in pop, funk, and R&B! Improve your independence: find your groove in mixed meters: ace your rolls,paradiddles, and triplets: increase your sight-reading chops: and interpret big band and samba charts like a pro - all while learning how to use these skills in real-life performance situations. The CD includes recordeddemonstrations of dozens of musical examples.
Foreword
3
(1)
About the Authors
3
(2)
Acknowledgments
5
(1)
Special Acknowledgment
5
(1)
Maurice White Speaks of Ralph Johnson
5
(1)
Exercises for the Intermediate Drummer
Chapter 1 Exercises for the Intermediate Drummer-Technique
6
(6)
The Long Roll
Paradiddles
Rudimental Solos
Slick
High Tech
Syncopod
Chapter 2 Exercises for the Intermediate Drummer-Sightreading
12
(15)
Triplets
Cut Time
Gear Shifter
12/8 Time
Duplicity
Chapter 3 Exercises for the Intermediate Drummer-Coordination
27
(3)
The Dratral
Chapter 4 Exercises for the Advanced Drummer-Technique
30
(11)
Two-Way Independence
Independence and Four-Way Coordination
Chapter 5 Exercises for the Advanced Drummer-Sightreading
41
(7)
Quarter Note Meters
Eighth Note Meters
Sixteenth Note Meters
Mixed Meters
Meter Dance
Chapter 6 Exercises for the Advanced Drummer-Interpretation and Improvisation
