Your'e first 2 or 3 lesson books

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

piggybacking off of @Stroman 's post about his early drum book....

what were your first memorable lesson books? First year of drum lessons was 1976

for me it was:;
1. Wilcoxin 150 rudimental solos




2. Carmine Appice's Realistic Rock



3. the Logical Approach to Snare Drum





and the classic NARD 26 Rudiments sheet

 

[jda]

1968/9
still have it

Rubank Advanced Method - Drums

(Advanced Band Method). Designed to follow any elementary and intermediate method for drums, the Rubank Advanced Method is a complete course of study, embracing not only a review of the 26 rudiments, but also presenting many valuable exercises, etudes, and musical excerpts all written expressly...

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classical and etudes and the 26 rude's.

rubankadvanced mrthod drums - Google Suche

and it was is the Advanced one;
It's really beautiful inside. Need an instructor cause there's no directions Just notes pages of
~~~
Never had another book until 1975
snare and tympani, ..Cirone, Firth, Podemski..
set books the Independent Drummer . Patterns, Chaffee; some other single papers

 

[RickP]

Pictured are the three books I started with .
My first teacher has me using the Max Abrams book - he was British and this was a book he started all his students with . Not sure it is still in print .

Next up was the great book Stick Control by George Stone - I still use this hook to this day .

Syncopation another great book that I still use to this day .

 

[BobC]

Actually, it's "Your."

 

[Jeremy Bender]

Going back a long time ago to my youth these were some of them I remember.

• Stick Control
• Haskell Harr Drum Method for band
• Syncopation

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

Actually, it's "Your."

holy crap...I didn't even notice that till ow...what a dumb a$$ I am!!!

the kids have a running joke in drumline at my high school (b/c I write fast and miss spell a lot in rehearsal) : "Spelling Doesn't Count In Drumline"

so everyone here is now a part of that world

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

Pictured are the three books I started with .
My first teacher has me using the Max Abrams book - he was British and this was a book he started all his students with . Not sure it is still in print .

Next up was the great book Stick Control by George Stone - I still use this hook to this day .

Syncopation another great book that I still use to this day .

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yeah...Stick Control was actual my very first via my dad...

 

[toddbishop]

Some band method book, Stick Control, Basic Drumming by Joel Rothman, Garwood Whaley's intermediate snare drum book. Didn't get into Syncopation till a few years later.

 

[Out of Round]

Haskell Harr Drum Method Vol. 1
Rockin' Bass Drum 1 & 2
Stick Control

 

[jda]

here's an example page from the Rubank Advanced Method for Drums.

page 16 to be exact.

rubank advanced method drums - Google Suche

 

[BobC]

holy crap...I didn't even notice that till ow...what a dumb a$$ I am!!!

the kids have a running joke in drumline at my high school (b/c I write fast and miss spell a lot in rehearsal) : "Spelling Doesn't Count In Drumline"

so everyone here is now a part of that world

I'm sorry to tell you, I was an English major, and I'm a writer, so I see every spelling gaffe. No offense intended.

 

[calan]

1) Stick Control

2) New Breed

 

[Seafroggys]

Yeah when I had my first teacher he got me Stick Control and Syncopation, have had those since 1999. I've never really used syncopation at all (aside from when I was teaching) but Stick Control I come back to, mainly the tuplets in the end are fun to jam out to.

My next book I got was in college I took lessons again and got Art of Bop Drumming, around 2005. It was a good book but I haven't worked out of it much.

 

[dcrigger]

Haskell Harr 1 & 2
Stick Control
Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

I'm sorry to tell you, I was an English major, and I'm a writer, so I see every spelling gaffe. No offense intended.

not offended at all...I was typing fast and sort of distracted when I started the thread, so that was the result

 

[Stroman]

Nice thread idea!

It was a loooong time ago, but these are ones I remember or still have:

School Lessons-
*Stick Control
*Haskell Harr
*Syncopation

Private Lessons (drum set)
*Drummer's Cookbook
*Realistic Rock
*Advanced Techniques for the Modern
Drummer

 

[Al Strange]

First 2 books were:
Joel Rothman’s “Play Rock ‘n Roll Drums”
“Buddy Rich’s Modern interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments”

 

[caddywumpus]

I didn’t crack open a drum book until college. First was Stick Control and second was Whaley’s Intermediate Studies. Third was when I started taking jazz drum set lessons, and that was Syncopation. MANY more to follow, but those were where the origin story began.

 

[I-P]

Ted Reed was my first.

 

[wildbill]

Long enough ago that I don't remember. But the one JDA posted looked vaguely familiar, so I looked around a bit and found these too:

Rubank Elementary Method

(Elementary Method). One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to the...

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and

Rubank Intermediate Method - Drums

(Intermediate Band Method). One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to...

www.google.com

That could have been the progression. They were first published in 1940 and 1946.