Books

Digital and Print books, including lessons, technique, play-alongs and more.

Realistic Fills: Replacements

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$9.99

Rock drum legend Carmine Appice shows you how to play exciting and powerful drum fills like the pros, using a systematic method of replacing certain notes in the 16th or triplet flow with bass drum strokes.

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The Evolution of Jazz Drumming

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$15.99$24.99

The most complete and comprehensive historical analysis of the drummers who created and defined modern jazz drumming in print. Featuring Baby Dodds, Sid Catlett, Dave Tough, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Mel Lewis, and many others.

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A Rhythmic Twist

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$9.99$14.99

A Rhythmic Twist: Triplet Concepts for Drumset will give you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common, comfortable 16th-note patterns and adapting them into a triplet feel. The results are amazingly musical and refreshingly creative, and will give any drummer tons of new ideas to play within any swing-based groove.

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Groove Alchemy (Book)

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$15.99$29.99

The Groove Alchemy Book is a complete method for developing a massive vocabulary of grooves in various funk-based styles.

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Groove Essentials 2.0 Book

$24.99$25.00

Groove Essentials 2.0 – The Play-Along! Volume two of the best-selling original Groove Essentials features a book and audio package with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players. A Must Have for anyone with the GE 2.0 video!

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Double Bass Metal Play-Along

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$9.99$19.99

A Double Kick, Metal-Style Play-Along book for Drummers.

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Rhythmic Designs

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$13.99$24.99

Rhythmic Designs expands on the groundbreaking polyrhythmic, polymetric concepts covered in Harrison’s previously published Rhythmic Illusions, Rhythmic Visions and Rhythmic Horizons books and videos by offering detailed analysis and transcriptions of twenty drum tracks from the recent Gavin Harrison & 05Ric albums “Drop” and “Circles”.

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Polyrhythmic Creativity on the Drumset

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$9.99$19.99

Written by top Canadian touring and session drummer and clinician, Paul DeLong, this book is a step-by-step guide that provides a clear path to developing the polyrhythmic concepts and techniques used by many of the worlds leading drum artists.

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The Evolution of Blast Beats

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$13.99

An in-depth look at today’s extreme metal drumming styles, this book was written by one of the genre’s emerging leading practitioners, Derek Roddy.

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The Official Freehand Technique

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$13.99$19.99

Showcasing the art of playing rhythms and patterns with a single hand.

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Messin’ Wid Da Bull

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$9.99$19.99

A funky grooves, fills & play-along book for drummers.

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Double Pedal Gold

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$19.99

Learn Double Bass Drum teachnique in this complete method book!