[PDF] Berklee Jazz Drums eBook

Author : Casey Scheuerell
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1540021661

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(Berklee Guide). Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the tradition of Alan Dawson and other Berklee luminaries of drum education. This approach to jazz drumming presents a unique blend of four-way coordination, comping vocabulary, and soloing/improvisation concepts, infused with world rhythms. It will help you to develop a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz drums, and to develop your own personal sound and style. You will learn to: * Deepen your sense of swing and overall timing * Understand the ride cymbal's critical role in jazz time-keeping * Apply the rudimental language of jazz * Develop your independence, via some of the great Alan Dawson's signature exercises and "The Rudimental Ritual" * Play brushes and brush patterns * Improvise captivating drum set solos * Incorporate world rhythms into jazz * Read and interpret drum charts

Author : Joe Mulholland
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1480360856

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(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.

Author : John Ramsay
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769265247

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Alan Dawson was a legendary drummer and educator, known for his work with the top artists in jazz as well as for his 18-year association with Berklee College of Music. This new text and online audio combination was put together by John Ramsay, a prominent drummer in his own right and a former student of Dawson's. The book contains all the important techniques and concepts that Alan Dawson embraced in his own playing and subsequently taught to his students. The recordings include some remastered audio examples from actual lessons taught by Dawson himself over the years. This is a highly comprehensive textbook from a jazz master.

Author : Rod Morgenstein
Publisher : Berklee Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780634009655

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(Berklee Guide). Step away from the practice pad! Legendary drummer Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to limber up your entire body. Features exercises to develop and improve your speed, power, control, coordination, independence, accuracy, endurance and agility. With this book, you'll gain a greater facility and command of the drum set, along with an increased feeling of confidence. "The definitive text for improving technical facility on the drum set." Ron Spagnardi Editor/Publisher, Modern Drummer

Author : Rich Appleman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 149507076X

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(Berklee Guide). Learn the art of jazz bass. Whether you are new to playing jazz or wish to hone your skills, and whether you play acoustic or electric bass, this book will help you expand your basic technique to create interesting and grooving bass lines and melodically interesting solos. Included are 166 audio tracks of demonstrations and play-alongs, featuring a complete jazz combo playing bass lines and solos over standard jazz progressions.

Author : Jim Payne
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610654463

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Modern funk drumming explained! Rock, Latin, Samba, and Blues rhythms have evolved and melded into what is known today as funk drumming. This book is designed for teachers and intermediate to advanced drum students. A basic knowledge of quarter note and eighth note rhythms is all that is you need to begin this book. Simple to complex rhythms are presented in a progressive manner.

Author : Ray Santisi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1495032205

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(Berklee Guide). Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated on the accompanying online audio, where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and original compositions, and how you can do the same. You will learn: * Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions, in many voicings and configurations * Modes and scales common in jazz * Techniques for comping, developing bass lines, harmonizing melodies, melodizing harmonies, and improvisation * Practice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memory * Variations for solo and ensemble playing * Advanced concepts, such as rhythmic displacement, approach-chord harmonization, and jazz counterpoint

Author : Ron Spagnardi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780793515264

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Miscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels

Author : Casey Scheuerell
Publisher : Berklee Press Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN :

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(Berklee Press). Expand your musical depth and bring new levels of power and speed to your drumming! Orchestrate sticking patterns into drum grooves. Open up and explore the fundamental rudiments, singles, doubles, flams, paradiddles, and ratamacues. Go beyond pattern concepts to make stickings flow smoothly into one another, so that you can better express your musical ideas. Master drummer and Berklee professor Casey Scheurell shows how basic stickings translate into drum set inventions and orchestrations. Technical explanations and extensive practice exercises with the play-along audio will help you make your fills become more vibrant and your solos more virtuosic. Includes drum charts. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

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File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
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ISBN : 9780876391822

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