A revolutionary new method that uses the double pedal for ALL drummers, helping their feet rival their hands with regard to speed, control and dexterity through the use of the F2F (foot-to-foot) system of footings.Clearly graduated in three sections-For Feet Only, Hands and Feet Together, and Groove Studies, this unique approach helps drummers in all styles to improve their time, coordination, and stability on the drum kit by more closely equalizing the abilities of their hands and feet. It also helps double pedal players to develop the skills of today's top masters.Lots of subdivisional shift studies to bolster reading skills and stimulate individual creativity and an extensive Foot Only section covering all of the major aspects of hand technique FOR THE FEET are also included in this very comprehensive book.

Fantastic Hands offers you many ways to achieve greater dexterity and control of the drum sticks and it will help any drummer playing in any style. It contains 515 carefully modulated exercises representing the root position and all of the inversions of the 5 different types of paradiddles (The Paradiddle Paradigm). It also shows 40 different ways (dexterity systems) to play all of these exercises—each one superimposed over and working with the paradiddle paradigm to push your control and dexterity farther. These systems cover the following aspects of snare drumming: Rolls (open and buzz), Flams, Drags, Paradiddles, Accents, Dead Strokes, Cheeses, Flammed Buzzes and combinations thereof. Each of these 40 different dexterity systems feels differently to your hands, giving you essentially a whole new set of exercises—this amounts to well over 20,000 exercises. It's like having 40 books in one! Also included are numerous suggestions on how to practice the patterns. Part Two of Fantastic Hands shows you creative ways to put different exercises from Part One together to spur on your creativity and help you with IDEA GENERATION for drum solos and fills—And they are FUN to play! for drum set players, we have added many foot under lays that can be applied to the patterns to help you with four limb fluency and coordination. At the end of this book is a special appendix of essential snare drum techniques to supplement the control and dexterity exercises of Part One and Part Two, that every serious drummer should work on to attain ultimate stick control and intuitive touch.

Once beginning drum set students have learned some basic beats, the question becomes “How do I get to the next level?” Developing the use of drum rudiments opens a new universe; by focusing on rudiments, you will learn new sticking patterns and build technique, speed, and dexterity. Applying these patterns to the drum set with the online grooves and beats included with this book creates yet another enjoyable dimension. An important part of this process is to apply it while playing with other musicians. The music tracks that accompany this book enhance the learning process and make it fun to play the examples and use them in a musical setting. Each recorded musical example appears in two separate versions: One version includes drums as a reference; the other leaves the drum tracks out, so students can provide the drumming. All examples are written in standard drum set notation. Includes access to online audio.

The Groove Schoolbook is a complete guide to the most common drum set patterns used in rock, pop, funk, and shuffle music. It is also a handy source of more than 2500 possible technical combinations that will prepare a drummer for the stylistic variety of the most common grooves in modern drumming.

Written in standard drum set notation, the book can be used by students and drummers of all ages, levels, and backgrounds. It can also be used by professionals as a reference book, or by anyone preparing for a university percussion program. The book’s intricate and interesting patterns will help students develop ambidexterity and four-limb independence. Includes access to online audio. Hailed by Billboard Magazine as “…one of the best Latin-American drummers nowadays,” Randolf Jimenez is a respected drummer, percussionist, composer and educator who has worked with many Grammy and Latin-Grammy award-winning artists and musicians. He is also an outstanding drum instructor in the Toronto area. Visit: www.randolfjimenez.com

“I love this book because it starts with a basic foundation for beginning students and advances into patterns that all drummers of different levels can use musically.” Walfredo Reyes Jr.—Drummer with Chicago, Santana, Traffic, Cristina Aguilera. Visit: www.walfredoreyesjr.com

Bill Kinsella is not the only all-star writer in Baseball Fantastic. Gathered in this collection are baseball stories by Nebula Award winners John Kessel and George Alec Effinger, Bram Stoker Award winner Edo van Belkom, Writers of the Future winner Scott Nicholson, reknowned authors Rick Wilbur, Ron Carlson, Andrew Weiner, and Louis Phillips, as well as outstanding tales by new writers discovered by the editor. The book also features an introduction and two original, previously unpublished stories by Kinsella himself. Join W. P. Kinsella in the thrill of reading the world-class stories collected in Baseball Fantastic.

The Fantastic Feet books have been endorsed by Peter Erskine, Colin Bailey, Russ Miller, Frank Briggs, Casey Cangelosi, Steve Fidyk, and Ted Atkatz. Drum Set Freedom--Fantastic Feet, Volume 2 joins with its predecessor Fantastic Feet--Stepping Outside the Box to offer you the most comprehensive set of studies available for the development of hand/foot equality for drum set players of any style of music. By training with the double bass drum pedal, we can develop the freedom we need to play any idea we can imagine without friction or road blocks when we go back to the bass drum/hihat configuration of the traditional drum set. Also shown are different pedal design and good seating options for RELAXED and HEALTHY execution of these materials. Included in this volume 2 of Fantastic Feet are sections on dribbling the pedal board for blazing speed, the MOELLER dribble, rolls between the hands and feet, and control strokes. However this volume was also written to take principles discussed in Fantastic Feet--Stepping Outside the Box even further with additional chapters on flam patterns for the feet, single stroke and accent studies, exercises to bolster and strengthen the double stroke roll and additional double pedal grooves. We will also "flirt with infinity" by having you improvise foot patterns underneath certain suggested hand patterns and the last chapter entitled "The Extra Mile" will fill in any gaps with sections on grooves with paradiddles on the feet, groove studies with foot ostinatos, Phat Flam Feet, advanced foot accent studies, creative orchestrations of subdivisions with the hands and Whole Body Synergy. A special Appendix with Graduation Etudes discusses the "Push-Pull" technique for the hands and tests you with challenging grooves and patterns that should be possible for you after enough time has been spent working on the Fantastic Feet and Fantastic Hands project! The intent here is to help you take your musical expression at the drums to a deeper level. Much luck and success!

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