whitecatcafe
Senior Member
oooops,mainly for jazz... John riley's bop books,dejonnete's,Chapin's...
for funk... all Garibaldi and Latham, afro cuban ...jimmy branly's,ignacio berroa 's DVD,maria martinez,chuck silvermann...to name the ones I concentrated on the most.Plus millions of transcriptions from random websites.
Ok, if you are just starting out in jazz, stick to Riley's Art of Bop Drumming and get as proficient with the material as you can. You need to spend at least a year with the bulk of the material in that book. Put away the DeJohnette book for now, that one is quite advanced. The Chapin one can wait too.
I would choose the Garibaldi book over the Latham book for funk studies.
For Latin studies, instead of working out of books, take out your Stick Control book and practice the exercises from page 5 -7 while playing the samba or songo foot ostinato. Once you get really comfortable with this and can play cleanly at a varying tempos (slow, medium, fast), then refer back to your Latin books/DVDs.
Put away the transcriptions away for now. You have quality material already and you should be focusing on those.
Next, allocate a day to each book. For example, Monday: Bop Drumming book, Tuesday: Garibaldi, etc...That way, you can stay focused. I'm sure you work on other things besides just working on musical styles, right? So if you have 3 hours a day to practice, 1st hour could be just technique (hand/foot/combinations), 2nd hour work on reading (Syncopation) and the 3rd hour work out of one of the books according to whatever day it is and what you have assigned for that day. It doesn't have to be in this order either.. you can start working on musical styles first, then technique, then reading. It doesn't matter. And no matter what you do, you should always warm up first.
The gist of it is: One day, One book.