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.

"This book is for anybody who wants to discover the big, wide world of drum fills. You'll find plenty of fill concepts to inspire you and enable you to understand the essential theory behind them so you can create your own drum fills. Step by step, Jost introduces rhythmic concepts that can be used universally on different levels and in every musical situation. He presents orchestration ideas, phrasings, and exercises focusing on dynamics and accents. He shows the different subdivisions that are essential for drum-fill playing and fills for binary and ternary grooves such as shuffles. Ideas on switch & path orchestration, diddle kicks, and clockwise & counterclockwise playing will enrich your drumming, as will step-hit-hi-hat, hand & foot rolls, cymbal chokes, stick shots, and many more."--Back cover

To keep your hands agile and dive deeper into effective methods that really improve your pad technique, Anika Nilles' Pad Book is just the thing! Anika gives plenty of advice on what and how to practice on a pad. Her fundamental workouts deal with accents, phrasings, and stickings in regular and odd note values, mixed meters, hand independence, and polyrhythms. Anika also puts together a collection of warm-ups that suggest how to create your own rhythm patterns out of the technical features in this book. Anika's focus through it all---to show you how you can always be creative when you play.

A guide of daily practice routines for drummers including music, practice charts, and techniques to improve your form.

Describes the theory, modeling, and design of tunable mm-wave circuits and systems using CMOS, RF MEMS, and microwave liquid crystals.

George Lawrence Stone's Accents and Rebounds, the follow-up to the classic Stick Control, builds on the basics with accent routines and more advanced rhythms to improve the player's finesse and control. This book includes sections on accented eighths, dotted notes, and triplets, as well as rebound control and more. If you are a fan of Stick Control, then this method supplies the perfect next step for your practice routine. This updated edition adds Joe Morello's legendary arrow notation to help students incorporate the motions of the Moeller technique.

(Book). Originally released in 1967, this Joe Morello classic is once again available now with audio! The precursor to his two most widely used instructional books Master Studies and Master Studies II this book covers: techniques such as right and left hand grips, playing position, striking the snare drum & hi-hat and more; beginning exercises; drum beats; teacher's charts; graphic cutouts and more. Includes a foreword and an intro.