The Drummer's Cook Book

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Summary: A Bible for drummers
Review: This book is great! It helps you develop your rhythmic improvisation. This book shows so much teqnique! This is one of Mel Bay's greatest drum book titles! This really helps you develop your rock style for todays rock drumming. This book helps you develop many rock variations, it's great. I really love this book! I suggest you try it, you'll definitley like it as much as me!

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Summary: An excellent title but...
Review: This is NOT for rank beginners by any stretch. The majority of the book provides a number of two bar rhythms to practice along with 8th and 16th note hi-hats. Almost all of the beats require a good 16th note ability on bass and snare drum and if you haven't got this down yet, this is the wrong book for you.

While I definitely recommend this book as an excellent volume, I suggest Jim Payne's Funk Drumming book as a precursor. It will take you to where this book really begins.

Also, this volume is NOT set up anything like Pickering's Studio Jazz book (which I also own and highly endorse). So if you already own that volume, expect a very different approach from this one.