Hand and Ethnic Percussion Music, Methods and DVD/Video

A comprehensive guide to traditional and contemporary styles.Glen Carubas vast understanding of percussion styles and heart felt musicianship has set him apart from many of todays players. His education with greats Alex Acuña, Hector Neciousup, and Roger Faulmann, has enabled him to share his knowledge in this comprehensive guide. Book/CD.

A clever, classical dog, one cool cat, and a friendly alligator make learning music fun. 48 pages. Book/CD/Soundshape.

Martin Röttger is regarded as one of the finest cajon players in Europe. With his great new cajon method you can begin playing your first grooves on your own cajon within 10 minutes. The combination of instructional book, audio CD and DVD offers every beginner the perfect introduction to playing this amazing instrument. The newly developed single line notation system with four different noteheads is easy to read and ensures rapid learning ...

A complete, step-by-step, user friendly course! In addition to learning how to make all the basic strokes, you'll be learning interlocking parts for some of the most popular West African rhythms; Kuku, Djole, Kassa, Madan, Suku, Sunguru Bani and Thiba. The rhythms are written in simple charts, so no music reading is required. The CD gives you a chance to hear how each part sounds separately and how the parts for each rhythm fit together. Each rhy...

This remarkable collection of rhythms exposes Billy Martin's unique take on the drumming connections between Africa and the Americas. Martin's notation can be easily read by anyone, with or without previous musical training. The book also includes a CD of Billy's drumming examples from the book (87 tracks). It is intriguing, musical and challenging. This book documents many of the pathways that Billy has taken to find his unique voice. The claves...

Destined to become a classic, School of Bongo is the author's fourth bongo book for Mel Bay, but first to seriously explore a variety of bongo patterns in contemporary music. This text begins with the basic Afro-Cuban patterns (Martillo , Afro, Bolero), but demonstrates over 300 rhythms including jazz, blues, rock, R&B reggae, bossa nova and samba. This book is ideally suited for the intermediate-advanced player. Rhythm patterns are demonstra...

Supernatural Rhythm & Grooves Video Tape w/ accompanying CD

"The Conga Drummer's Guidebook" is the only method book specifically designed for intermediate to advanced conga drummers---packed with exercises on every aspect of the craft! Spiro goes behind the superficial licks and shows you how to approach any Afro-Latin rhythm with the right feel, i.e. he explains the concepts of HOW to play correctly, not just WHAT to play. Includes complete chapters on: -a clear, lucid explanation of clave ...

(Book & CD) Alfred's new Kid's Drum Course is a fun method that teaches kids to play rhythms and songs on a variety of drums and sound sources. Learn from three irresistible drum experts-a clever, classical dog, one cool cat, and a friendly alligator! This book is specifically designed for use with kids at the elementary level, contains colorful illustrations keep kids interested and entertained, and requires no prior musical experience neces...

Essential Tones, Rhythms & GroovesSeries: Berklee DVDPublisher: Berklee PressFormat: DVDAuthor: Joe GaleotaAuthor: Michael Markus Learn to play djembe! This hands-on workshop will help you produce a good sound, develop a healthy playing technique, and learn the essential concepts and rhythms of West African djembe drumming. Extensive play-along tracks help you practice every technique in the context of a traditional African djembe ensemb...

This is the follow-up volume to Bodhrán: The Basics and is designed for those who want to improve their technique and expand their rhythmic repertoire. It contains exercises and solos in 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, and 9/8 time. The 568 one-measure exercises are designed to improve a player?s technical skill and demonstrate how to use the basic building blocks of rests, accents, rolls, and syncopation to create interesting and varied rhythmic patterns....

This beginner level book takes you on an inside look at the techniques that have made Giovanni Hidalgo the #1 conguero in the world. Published by Sandy Feldstein Music, this guide covers technique development, grooves, solos, and play-alongs. Every line of music is on the CD with video clips of each of the basic strokes which are playable on your computer.