Contemporary Rock Styles for the Drums Book/CD

Contemporary Rock Styles for the Drums is about the grooves that make up the full array of today's rock music scene. If you want to be a well-rounded, well-trained drummer, this is the material you need to know.

This instructional book contains historical references and background, useful information and explanations about the styles, notated musical examples of each approach, detailed points about "feel," important performance tips, extensive discographies and bibliographies, biographies of each author, and demonstration performances and play-along tracks on the accompaniment CD.

The lessons in The Collective Contemporary Styles Series represent many years of work on the part of many talented faculty members, who have had the experience of playing and teaching these styles to literally thousands of young rhythm-section musicians over the last thirty years. This series is the fruit of their labor and talent with the information presented in a manner that is easy to grasp.