How to Write a Fast and Easy Drum Chart teaches an innovative and simple approach to drum chart writing that takes almost no time to learn. Designed for drummers, composers, and students who need drum charts for the various songs they encounter, this method won't require you to turn multiple pages and read bar after bar of music. Instead, you will see the full form of a song on one piece of paper and only need to write a few measures of drum notation to keep yourself in the groove. Charting a song will help you play with greater accuracy, ensuring that you play the song correctly the first time and every time. By being able to easily and accurately play songs right away, you'll make your life easier and land more gigs. The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of the examples in the book.

How to Write a Fast & Easy Drum Chart (Book and Audio Tracks). How to Write a Fast & Easy Drum Chart teaches an innovative and simple approach to drum chart writing that takes almost no time to learn. Designed for drummers, composers, and students, beginners to pros who work with different bands and need charts for all the various songs they encounter. This method won’t require you to turn multiple pages and read bar after bar of music. Instead, you will see the full form of a song on one page and only need to write a few measures of drum notation to keep yourself in the groove. Charting a song will help you play with greater accuracy, ensuring that you play the song correctly the first time and every time. Make your life easier and land more gigs when you can easily and accurately play songs right away. Download the demonstration audio tracks and book answers sheet online. Download link URL is inside of book. The Book Includes: 57 Pages of Drum Charting Instruction, 54 tracks of Basic and Advanced Drum Patterns, 1 Original Song Track to Chart and Play-Along, 15 Drum Charts of Popular and Current Music, 12 Step Easy Method to Writing a Drum Chart for Cover or Original Music, 4 Pages of Basic and Advanced Drum Patterns to listen, practice and learn, 3 Different Blank Chart Templates. The Book Covers Techniques in: How To Chart Out the Song Form, How To Determine the Feel of The Song, How To Determine the Time Signature, The Basic and Advanced Snare Drum and Bass Drum Patterns That Are Used the Most, How to Identify and Write Simple Drum Notation for Your Songs, Organizing Your Materials, Techniques on how to Count the Band In How to Write Out a Medley.

If you want to have more fun on the drums, improve your skills faster, and play along to real music, then you need to build a solid foundation. The Best Beginner Drum Book gives you a clear path for getting started on the drums and skipping the frustrating obstacles that most new drummers face: setting up your kit, holding the drumsticks, learning notation, creating catchy beats and fills, learning musical styles, and playing your favorite songs.

Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.

"This book is a supplement to the first volume of Drum Machine Patterns. In it you will find over 260 rhythm patterns and breaks. These are original patterns that can be programmed easily on any drum machine. This book contains the rhythms most often used in contemporary music, and many patterns incorporate flams, to be used on the latest generation of drum machines."--Amazon

Exploring drum fills from the 60s through today's most popular music, this book is designed to develop your skills through sequential lessons with an emphasis on coordination, drum fill vocabulary, and a strong emphasis on drum fill selection--knowing what to play and when. Upon completion of this book, you will have dissected 100 drum fills from chart-topping songs and 200 hand-selected coordination building exercises.