Looking for a good instructional book

e.wallace · #1 06-10-2010, 11:24 AM

Any recomendations? I'm just starting to get deeper into jazz and I kind of want to start with the basics i.e. big band and some simple stuff w/ brushes and move into more of the bop/post-bop and fusion stuff later. Play along cds would be great too. A couple of books I was looking at were Advanced Techniques For The Modern Drummer and Time functioning Patterns. Would these be good?

Thanks!

Swiss Matthias · #2 06-10-2010, 11:57 AM

The Art of Bop Drumming - John Riley.

Search the forum, plenty of information there already.

Wavelength · #3 06-10-2010, 12:38 PM

Check out John Riley's Art of Bop Drumming and Beyond Bop Drumming for the jazzy stuff -- those books cover a lot of ground! For the funk part of the fusion genre, get David Garibaldi's Future Sounds, for the Cuban part I'd recommend Dan Thress' Afro Cuban Rhythms for Drumset, and for the Brazilian ingredients seek out Duduka da Fonseca's Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset.

What's good about these books is that they contain actual music and idiomatic vocabulary instead of just exercises. You can and should, of course, supplement your training with more abstract or general material such as George Stone's Stick Control, Ted Reed's Syncopation and Gary Chester's New Breed.

MCS · #4 06-10-2010, 12:54 PM

Jim Blackley has written an excellent book on jazz drumming called ' The Essence of Jazz Drumming' and Alan Cox produced an great CD called 'Meet the bass Player' which can be used in conjunction with this book.

More info on each can be found at these site:

http://www.papergiant.com/jimblackley/
http://www.allancox.co.uk/allancox/Home.html

e.wallace · #5 06-10-2010, 09:18 PM

Awesome, ordering Art of Bop right now, thanks so much for your help.

Swiss Matthias · #6 06-10-2010, 10:25 PM

By the way, John Riley has got an awesome DVD out, too!

Boomka · #7 06-10-2010, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MCS

Jim Blackley has written an excellent book on jazz drumming called ' The Essence of Jazz Drumming' and Alan Cox produced an great CD called 'Meet the bass Player' which can be used in conjunction with this book.

More info on each can be found at these site:

http://www.papergiant.com/jimblackley/
http://www.allancox.co.uk/allancox/Home.html

Nice call. Jim's stuff is first rate.

Drums&Beer · #8 06-10-2010, 11:07 PM

check out Steve Fidyk's "Jazz Drum Set Independence."

Deltadrummer turned me onto this one. The section on 3/4 is VERY helpful.

http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Drum-Inde...6203819&sr=8-4