Musical Expression on the Drumset

Welcome to your one-stop-shop for learning how building your pop, R&B, and gospel drumming chops! This unique book/video/audio combo by Chris Johnson, one of the top in-demand drummers in the music industry for the last 20 years, is the ultimate guide to developing grooves, improvisation, and technical mastery within modern music styles and settings.

The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This drum method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band! Drum lessons include: • How to hold your drumsticks • Proper hand and feet techniques • Limb independence • Reading notes and rhythms • Rudiments • Rock, pop, Latin, funk, hip hop and island grooves • Articulations and timbre explorations • Auxiliary percussion instruments • Composing a song • Writing lyrics Songs include: Best Day of My Life • Can't Stop the Feeling! • I Gotta Feeling • Oye Como Va • Someone like You • Umbrella • Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) • Zombie • and more.

Joe Morello is one of the most important drummers in jazz, and here is your chance to learn directly from him! In this video series Joe demonstrates roll techniques, matched grip and traditional stick positions, sounds on the drumhead, cross sticking, tuning, and much more, all using natural body movement.

The All-Access Pass gives you just that, instant online access to every single video tutorial currently on the site and any ones that get added during your membership.

Acclaimed drummer & instructor Carter McLean brings you his invaluable “Four Hands Drumming” video series with accompanying book, featuring over 3 hours of high-quality drumset lessons. Carter covers myriad concepts, practice ideas, sticking patterns, grooves, and creative workouts, including the Kaleidoscope – a giant notated exercise guaranteed to improve your technique! Topics covered include: groove construction; phrasing & musicality; practice ideas; innovative exercises; improving technique; drum tuning & tips; and more.

In this digital book, Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton, Gary Burton shares his 50 years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, and has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names.

Want to make your drum playing better? This digital book features 15 songs carefully arranged and ordered by level of difficulty. As you progress through the concepts discussed in the method, your understanding will expand and systematically increase your playing abilities.

Take a rhythmic trip around the world... with digital print and easy-link audio & video examples right from your computer or device! Learn incredible drumming rhythms from around the world that help develop focus, listening, teamwork, and respect. This digital book is great for anyone wanting to learn these essential rhythms, including both teachers and students.

Global Grooves explores world rhythms, songs and styles and is part of the World Music Drumming library of teaching resources. This is the perfect resource for teaching your students or yourself quintessential grooves from around the world including Indonesia, Egypt, Tanzania, Greece, Mexico, Hawaii, Germany, Argentina, Cameroon, Cuba, Antiqua, and the British Isles.

This digital book is a comprehensive study of all things electronic drums. Author Bob Terry clearly demonstrates and discusses the advantages of using (and the many professional uses for) the full electronic drum kit, percussion pad, MIDI controller, and hybrid drum kit. Includes detailed descriptions of each of these components and how to hook them up, audio samples, onstage setups, and more.

Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll! details Kenny Aronoff's youth in the Berkshires and the Midwest, from his early inspirations to his serious classical and jazz study, which gave him the foundation to be able to play – anything.

Reason Guru Paul Ortiz shows you everything you need to know about the new Drum Sequencer player in Reason 10! Learn all about it and how to use it creatively when producing in Reason.

In this in-depth video series, SD3 wiz Luke Oswald gives you a comprehensive walk through of all the important new features found in the the Superior Drummer 3.1 update.