New to me, anyway— I think these have all been around awhile. I thought I’d give my rapid-fire opinion on some things I just got in the mail: Daily Drumset Workout by Claus Hessler We’ll […]
Category: best books
Good reading
Ignore the model’s bad posture, tucked-in muscle shirt, and Bay City Rollers hairdo, and buy the book. If you’ve worked with Ted Reed’s Syncopation in any serious way you’ve probably sensed that it has a […]
Gary Chaffee linear patterns
In the coming days we’ll be doing a little extension of a thing found in vol. 3 of Gary Chaffee’s Patterns series— an appendix, really— and since that’s not an everyday title like Reed or […]
Best books: the Dahlgren & Fine rock book
Complete Text for the Rock and Roll Drummer by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine Really Good Music Publishing 66 pages When Really Good Music Publishing reissued a raft of Marvin Dahlgren titles last year, I […]
New CSD! book: 100 Grooves
OK, here it is, just in time for Christmas— our new book, 100 Grooves – vol. 1, is now available for purchase. It contains over 100 transcribed drum grooves by people like Elvin Jones, Ed […]
I think this is what is referred to as a “chestnut”
Here’s a book that has been part of the terrain forever, but which is much more valuable than you might expect: Haskell Harr’s Drum Method. It’s a two-volume item, and I’ve only used Book 2, […]
HFS, part two
Last time I was moved to so eloquent a title I had just received the massive Paiste 22″ 602 dark ride; today I received a massive library of 180+ dense pages in three volumes by […]
Three Camps round up
I recently picked up a stack of Mitchell Peters books, one of which contains several variations on this classic, and it seemed like a good time to round up the various sources and variations on […]
Several big band drumming books
A couple of new/old big band drumming books dropped into my lap recently, so what the heck, I thought I’d round them up for you: Studio & Big Band Drumming by Steve Houghton – 1985 […]
Dave Tough’s Advanced Paradiddle Exercises
Here’s an out-of-print classic, scanned and made available for download thanks to Denver drummer Todd Reid. God knows if it will ever be made commercially available again, or if anyone even owns the copyright, so […]