The 4 Stroke Ruff Drum Rudiment by Mark Agostinelli is a book that is dedicated to the 4 (four) Stroke Ruff drum rudiment. There is no other book available quite like this, because this book is solely dedicated to "only" this rudiment. As many of you guys already know, all of the drum rudiments are very important. When you are a new drummer, you are tasked with learning these rudiments and the study can get real boring, real fast. Most of the time you are required to take the rudiments and sit down (or Stand) behind a snare drum and just play the rudiment over and over until you gradually speed it up and it sounds cleaner.However, this book takes a different approach! It is the ultimate book for developing your 4 Stroke Ruff. Instead of "only" playing on the snare drum over and over, you can approach it by playing the rudiment around the drum set. In turn, it is now developing your command on the set itself. It helps the reader also develop their reading skills by now having to read each measure to see where to go next. It adds an incredibly fun and deeper learning experience as apposed to just sitting and playing it over and over. Also, the very fact that you are now playing around the drum set instead of only on the snare it teaches you how to use the four stroke ruff as a fill-in tool and shows you how to apply it to your every day playing.To make a long story short; it adds a few other layers of development as opposed to only developing the rudiment itself. Thus saving time and making it more fun.
