Do-It-Yourself Drums: The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing

Do-It-Yourself Drums is a fun way to get started playing on your own. Using well-known pop, rock, funk, jazz, and reggae tunes, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started and sounding like a pro in no time. Includes audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video instruction by professional drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, John Fogerty) and instructor Rick Mattingly (Modern Drummer magazine, Percussive Arts Society). Topics covered include: setting up your kit; types of sticks and equipment; reading charts; limb independence; playing styles and grooves; demonstration and play-along audio tracks; video instruction and demonstration; plus online supplemental PDFs of groove patterns. Includes over 100 audio tracks and 50+ minutes of video!

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
1. The drumset
2. Reading music
3. Chart reading
4. Eighth-note patterns
5. Sixteenth notes
6. Tom-tom beats
7. Alternating hands
8. Quarter-note ride
9. Triplets and 12/8
10. Shuffles
11. Double bass drums and pedals
12. Reggae
13. Country music
14. Jazz
15. Jazz-rock fusion
About the authors

Songlist:

1. Pride And Joy
2. Can't Get Enough
3. The House of the Rising Sun
4. Gimme Some Lovin'
5. Hurts So Good
6. I Shot the Sheriff
7. Le Freak
8. Lullaby of Birdland
9. Maiden Voyage
10. Midnight Rider
11. Mony, Mony
12. Proud Mary