Includes two and four bar rock and jazz-rock beats designed for the modern drummer.

Includes two- and four-bar rock and jazz-rock beats designed for the modern drummer.

Written in two volumes, these books include 2- and 4- bar rock and jazz-rock beats designed for the modern drummer. Both books are designed to develop the drummer's skill in coordinating their hands and feet. The books also offer the drummer a repertoire of exciting rhythmic patterns.

Block Rockin' Beats" has tons of cool grooves and fills for the intermediate to advanced drummer. This book reflects recent musical trends by focusing on funky rock, hip hop, jungle and drum 'n' bass influenced patterns for the drum kit. As time marches on, popular music continues to evolve and change. "Block Rockin' Beats" is designed to give the drummer more ideas and tools to help function in a musical environment that was not only influenced by jazz, blues, gospel, country, soul, latin and funk styles – but also shaped by D.J.s, samplers and electronic music. Drummers are often called upon now to replace or ad to programmed drums in the recording studio. for live shows, live drumming might be melded together with electronic elements or D.J.s, or both Rock and popular music are incorporating so many different elements and styles at this point, it's hard to keep track! Update your rhythmic vocabulary with some "Block Rockin' Beats.

"Learning to play drums has never been easier - it's all here so ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Kristen Henderson has taken on the task of expressing the intangible through the use of concrete images that are familiar to the senses. Her strong imagery frequently evokes elements of nature, to carry us out of the technological consciousness of the modern world to a more natural, unencumbered state.