Drumset Manuals

2009 Project: All Drumset Manuals are being revised, updated and released as completed.

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade One

A no nonsense start to the drums explaining basic reading, rudiments and rhythms including;
single and double stroke rolls; paradiddles; triplets; rock beats;
blues beats and shuffles; basic jazz and latin.

$20 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Two

Dealing with flams, drags, ruffs and rolls; sixteenth note rock beats;
Around the drums with rudiments and fill-ins with rock, jazz and world rhythm solos.

$20 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Three

Dealing with advancing snare technique; sixteenth note rock beats with
1/16th note triplets; linear style; accents; hip-hop; rolling shuffles;
paradiddle rock beats, jazz and african rhythms.

$22 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Four

Dealing with continuing Snare Technique including the 40 P.A.S Rudiments;
Ostinato Patterns, Jazz Development, Latin Rhythms and Double Bass Drum
with an emphasis on the history of these rhythms.

$24 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Five

Dealing with New Concepts in Hybrid Rudiments ;
extensive paradiddle based rhythms; more latin rhythms; odd-time rhythms and stickings;
double bass exercises and grooves; with thirteen solos to keep you busy as hell!

$26 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Six

Grade Six deals with polyrhythms against two;
Quintuplet and Septuplet Stickings;
ParadODDles; Brushes, Reggae and
World Music (Celtic and Burundi) with 17 solos

$28 Australian plus postage

***all new*** Drumset Manual Grade Seven

Dealing with Polyrhythms "against three"; Advanced snare techniques;
Jazz Polyrhythmics; "rates" in five and seven; solos in five and seven;
practical and possible ostinatos; more double bass drumming .... 20 Solos ... beyond VCE... beyond TAFE ... you beauty!

$30 Australian plus postage

Drumset Manual Grade Eight (coming soon)

Dealing with Polyrhythmic Time Signatures; Polyrhythms "against four";
Nested Polyrhythms; Linear Jazz Stickings; Linear and Layered soloing styles
.... 26 Solos ... this book makes you dead sexy!

$32 Australian plus postage

Drumset Performer Book (coming soon)

This book represents the Final Instalment of a Twelve Year Project to complete a comprehensive Syllabus for the Drumset.

The Drumset Music in this book represents the "Open End" of Melodic Solo Drumming.
The Solos include all aspects of the material covered in the Drumset Manuals Preliminary to Grade Eight;
This includes Improvisation, Polyrhythmic techniques, Metric Modulation, Melodic Ostinato and Exotic Rhythms. A Truly Challenging Book.

$34 Australian plus postage

Angles around the Drums - Volume One