Book Contents
1.) Introduction
Playing Relaxed • Practice Ideas • The Art of Accompaniment • Musical Time Keeping • Drum Legend
2.) Time
Note Values and Rests • Time Scale • Time Scale Stickings • Time Scale With Groupings of 2-12 • Time Scale with Single Stroke Roll • Time Scale with Double Stroke Roll • Polyrhythms
3.) Right & Left Hand Patterns
Duplet Permutations • Embellished Triplets & Quads • Triplet Accents • Triple Accents Using Double Strokes Stickings in 3/8 • Stickings in 5/8 • Stickings in 7/8 • Stickings in 9/8 • Paradiddle Permutations
4.) Rhythm & Phrasing Dotted Eighths and Sixteenths
Dotted Eighths Across Quarter Notes • Rhythmic Resolution Archetypes • Consecutive Note Groupings of 2 – 9 with Gaps of 1 – 9 • Consecutive 8th Note Triplets Separated by 1 – 4 Gaps • 4 Consecutive Notes with Gaps of 1 – 105 • Note Groupings with Gaps of 1 – 9 • Classic World Rhythms
5.) Drum Set Patterns High Hat Foot, Heel/Toe Technique
Getting Comfortable with Up-Beats • Getting Comfortable with Up-Beats #2 • Walking Feet Beats • Walking Feet with Off-beat Cymbal • Single Stroke, Downbeat & Backbeat variations • Single Stroke Accents in Second Line • Groove Ride Patterns
Swing Ride Patterns • Jazz Ride Patterns & Permutations • Swing Ride Patterns With Complimentary Snare Paradiddle Permutations for Kick, Snare & Hat • Ostinato Beats for Ride & Snare • Clave for Three Limbs • Rhythm Cycles For Bass, Snare & Floor
Melodic Patterns For Kick & Two Toms • The 6 Two-Limb Triplet Combinations with Jazz Ride Check Patterns in Combination • Triplet Check Patterns • Triplet Combinations for Back Beat Grooves • Two-Limb Triplet Combinations in 9/8 • Three Note Groupings For Kick, Snare & Floor Tom • Kick, Snare & Hat Linear Quads • Kick, Snare, Hat Linear Style Triplets & Sextuplets
6.) Drum Beats & Styles Duplet Accent Variations
Duplets in Triple time
• 2/4 Kick & Snare Combinations • Backbeat Studies with 7 Ride Patterns • Half Time Shuffle Variations • African Grooves • Classic Drum Beats
7.) Odd Time Grooves Grooves in Three Quarter Time
Grooves in Five Quarter Time • 5/4 Beats • Groove In 5/4 • Grooves in Seven Quarter Time • Jazz Swing Time Modulation • Melodic Grooves, Setups & Fills • Melodic Rhythm Cycles for Drum Set
