Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Drums (2nd Edition)
Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!
By Patrick Wilson
Drumset Book & Online Video/Audio
Item: 00-40951
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Description
Learn to play the drums and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with a newly revised edition of this exciting method from Alfred Music. This edition features a video presented by educator/performer Johnny O'Reilly, that correlates directly with the book. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various drum types and the sounds they create, playing basics, proper drumstick grips, and getting acquainted with standard drum notation. You will then move right along to playing different lines with different tempos, rhythms, and grooves---all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical and drum notation. You will learn to play beats and fills in an array of musical styles, including rock, country, jazz, and Latin. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play in a band and read standard drum music.
The book features the following helpful resources for reference during and after your lessons:
* Technique builders
* Daily workouts to improve your playing
* Practice tips
* Hints on purchasing equipment, tuning and sound modification, drumset maintenance
* Plus much more.
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Contents
| Title | |
| Part I: Getting Started | |
| A Brief History of the Drums | |
| What to Play (Selecting Your Instruments) | |
| How-to-Play Basics | |
| Using Your Grip--The Wrist | |
| Using Your Grip--The Fingers | |
| Technique Builder #1: Introduction to the Single-Stroke Roll | |
| Play Now! | |
| Your First Experiments | |
| Learning from the Book | |
| How to Read Music | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Symbols for Sounds--Notes, Symbols for Silence--Rests | |
| The Framework | |
| Reading Your First Lines of Music | |
| The Lines & Spaces--Where Instruments Are Indicated | |
| Using Your Feet | |
| Where to Play | |
| Part II: Learning the Basics | |
| Mini Music Lesson: The Pace of Music--Tempo | |
| Get into the Groove | |
| Rockin', Reelin', Readin' and Repeatin' | |
| Mini Music Lesson: The Repeat Sign | |
| Mixin' It Up | |
| It Takes Two | |
| Stick to It! | |
| Technique Builder #2 | |
| Crazy Eighths | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Flags and Beams | |
| More Eighths | |
| Look Ma, No Hands | |
| Keeping Time | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Phrases | |
| Easy Does It | |
| Mini Music Lesson: One-Bar Repeat Sign | |
| Technique Builder #3: Introduction to the Double-Stroke Roll | |
| Three's Company | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Two-Bar Repeat Sign | |
| Fill In the Blanks | |
| Part III: More Basics | |
| Note & Rest Review | |
| Sweet Sixteenths | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Flags and Beams | |
| More Sixteenths | |
| Dotted Rhythms | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Dotted Rhythms--Waking Up the Music | |
| Digging In! | |
| Hi-Hat Technique | |
| Rolls | |
| Rolllin' Over | |
| Technique Builder #4: Introduction to the Multiple-Bounce Roll | |
| Triplets | |
| More Triplets | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Pick-Ups | |
| Technique Builder #5 | |
| Mini Music Lesson: First and Second Endings | |
| New Meters | |
| Basic Beats Using New Meters | |
| Mini Music Lesson: Multiple Dynamics | |
| Special Techniques | |
| Fills Using Special Techniques | |
| "Help!" | |
| Part IV: Playing Beats & Fills | |
| Practicing This Section | |
| Rock | |
| Early | |
| Hard/Metal | |
| Disco/Dance | |
| Reggae (Ska) | |
| Funk | |
| Shuffle | |
| Sitting In: Early ('60s); Metal; Reggae; Funk | |
| Country | |
| Bluegrass; Early | |
| Waltz; Shuffle (Rock-a-Billy) | |
| Up Tempo (Fiddle Tunes); Rock; "Train" Rhythm | |
| Sitting In: Waltz; "Train" Rhythm; Rock | |
| Jazz | |
| Up Tempo | |
| Blues; Dixieland | |
| Ballads | |
| Straight Time/Swing | |
| Shuffle | |
| Waltz | |
| Sitting In: Dixieland; Ballad; Swing & Shuffle; Waltz | |
| Latin | |
| Samba; Bossa Nova; Calypso | |
| Cha Cha; Tango; Mambo | |
| Rumba (Bolero); Beguine | |
| Sitting In: Bossa Nova; Calypso; Cha Cha, Tango & Rumba | |
| Special Requests | |
| Polka; Waltz; Mexican Hat Dance; Charleston | |
| Cancan; Hora; Irish Jig; Two-Step; Bunny Hop/ "Hokie-Pokie" | |
| Part V: Odds & Ends | |
| Keeping Your Equipment in Shape | |
| Replacing a Drumhead | |
| Tuning, Drumheads | |
| Being Your Own Teacher | |
| Where to Go from Here | |
| Other Useful Alfred Drumset & Percussion Publications |
Additional Information
| Series: | Teach Yourself Series |
| Author: | Patrick Wilson |
| Instrument: | Drumset |
| Format: | Book & Online Video/Audio |
| Page Count: | 92 |
| Item Number: | 00-40951 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-9574-9 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-9574-4 |
| UPC: | 038081459547 |
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