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 […]
Category: books
Blog sale: 20% off transcriptions book
Who knows for how long— days, not weeks. 12/10/12 update: The new book is now, at long last, available to order. You can still get the transcriptions book at a 10% discount. I’m feverishly working […]
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, […]
On Marv Dahlgren’s prodigious output and the purpose of a library
Three bucks to purchase, hundreds of hours to master. As I was idly visiting the Really Good Music Publishing site– the people, you’ll recall, who have reissued several out of print Marvin Dahlgren books- an […]
Typos in Funky Primer
Time to get out your white-out again. This is something that had been bugging me for many years of working with A Funky Primer, by my old professor, Charles Dowd. Most of the book consists […]
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 […]
Typos in Wilcoxon
I just received in the mail a copy of an older edition (circa 1969) of Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimental Swing Solos, and confirmed my suspicion that there are some typos in the new Sakal edition. First, […]
Best books: The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set by Ed Uribe
The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set is the little sister of Uribe’s massive volume on Afro-Cuban percussion. I’ve been using it almost daily for several months now, and not only is it a […]
Things I like: drum writing
Here’s a new feature: things I like about things. Today we’ll talk about something I’m seeing a lot of currently: practice materials. 1. Things that fit on a single page. It’s nice aesthetically. Give me […]