A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.

(Book). This invaluable guide and accompanying CD give bass players both the musical background and training needed to get on with their grooving. With lessons guided by a metronome and presented in various musical styles and rhythmic applications, bassists increase their ability to internalize rhythm. The book also breaks down classic styles and grooves from rock, blues, R&B, jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and other traditions. Each example includes a notated version of the drum part and details how to program it into a drum machine.

Explores the construction, performance and technique of drum set grooves. Includes discussion and many examples and exercises. The CD contains more than 200 MP3 files of grooves and exercises.

(Music Express Books). Global Grooves is another volume in the growing World Music Drumming library of teaching resources. Author Will Schmid, collaborated with teachers from around the world Indonesia, Egypt, Tanzania, Greece, Mexico, Hawaii, Germany, Argentina, Cameroon, Cuba, Antiqua, British Isles. These fun songs and drum ensembles make great additions to your global teaching resources and appealing additions to your next performance. The collaborating teachers bring a wealth of experience and local culture to each lesson; you will enjoy the suggested supplementary activities as well. Teacher Book offers helpful lesson plans, drum ensembles and reproducible songsheets. The enclosed Enhanced CD offers performance and instrumental-only tracks for each song, and over 45 PDFs of songsheets and instrument & piano parts to project or print! This collection is suggested for Grades 4-8. Songs include: In Havana, Domidow, El Humahuaqueno, Dulces Suenos, Salma Ya Saalema, Zangelewa, Wewe Ni Mungu Wetu, The Czech-Mex Polka, Christmas Jig, Hana Kupono, Samiotisa, Dip an' Fall Back.

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.