Groove Systems utilizes patterns directly transcribed from 10 unique styles of music as a vehicle for both coordination development and an increase in stylistic vocabulary. The Groove System encompasses thousands of functional and musical coordination exercises. Each chapter contains a brief history of the style of music, as well as a list of the key drummers, artists, and grooves that exemplify that style. The Groove System follows and contains vocabulary for each isolated "instrument" of the drum set.

Designed to assist you in developing a real-world vocabulary of drum fills as played by top professional drummers in every style, Filling in the Grooves by Jim Toscano covers all the fills drummers ask about: odd groupings, filling over the barline, hand-foot combinations, double-bass fills, groupings, stylistic fills, and much more. In addition, the book dissects legendary fills played by the giants of the drums, including Billy Cobham, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Gavin Harrison, Neil Peart, Simon Phillips, Jeff Porcaro, Tony Williams and more. Included are downloadable digital files containing nine play-along tracks and audio and video demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.

General Reference

The MIDI Manual: A Practical Guide to MIDI within Modern Music Production, Fourth Edition, is a complete reference on MIDI. Written by David Miles Huber (a 4x Grammy-nominated musician, producer and author), this best-selling guide provides clear explanations of what MIDI 1.0 and 2.0 are, acting as a guide for electronic instruments, the DAW, MIDI sequencing and how to make best use of them. You will learn how to set up an efficient MIDI system and how to get the most out of your production room and ultimately ... your music. Packed full of useful tips and practical examples on sequencing and mixing techniques, The MIDI Manual also covers in-depth information on system interconnections, controllers, groove tools, the DAW, synchronization and more. For the first time, the MIDI 2.0 spec is explained in light of the latest developments and is accompanied with helpful guidelines for the long-established MIDI 1.0 spec and its implementation chart. Illustrated throughout with helpful photos and screenshots, this is the most readable and clearly explained book on MIDI available.

"Phil Stanhope delivers what I consider to be a recipe-based approach to building tools and applications for the Groove decentralized communications platform. Phil isn't just a short-order cook; he's a master chef." -Jack Ozzie, Vice President of Development, Platform and Development Services, Groove Networks, Inc. Building Tools and Peer-to-Peer Solutions with the Groove(r) Platform The Groove platform makes peer-to-peer workgroup collaboration easier than ever. With this unique developer's guide, you'll discover how to customize Groove for specific business needs - taking Groove collaboration and ease of use to the next level. Using plenty of code examples in JavaScript, C++, and Visual Basic, veteran Groove developer Phil Stanhope shows you step by step how to create your own Groove tools and layouts and integrate contact management, Web-based customer management services, and data from enterprise systems. Take Groove(r) to the Next Level * Understand Groove basics - the transceiver, contacts, messaging, chatting, spaces, and accounts * Create, test, and refine custom HTML viewer tools to integrate existing Web content into Groove * Streamline development by extracting template code from existing tools * Create your own custom Groove layout * Integrate contact management with invitation files and online detection tools * Enhance a customer-service Web site by adding a Groove collaboration space with seeded customer data and tools * Understand the basics of next-generation edge-based CRM applications by synchronizing center-based enterprise data with custom edge-based tools * Import and export Groove-specific XML as well as third-party XML data from corporate databases and Web-enabled CRM and ERP systems * Exploit Groove's communications, security, and transport services to build asynchronous, guaranteed-delivery message and data-synchronization solutions CD-ROM includes: * Sample Groove tools * Complete source code and examples from the book * Groove Preview Edition and Groove Development Kit

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2006, held in Vienna, Austria in March/April 2006 as satellite event of ETAPS 2006. The 16 revised full papers presented together with three tool presentation papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

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