Author: Briggs, FrankBrand: Mel BayEdition: Spi Pap/CoNumber Of Pages: 160Release Date: 24-07-2002Details: This book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, author Frank Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. Briggs states, ""He believes the more you know about different styles and the inner workings of time and phrasing, the better your ability to contribute to the music at hand. The clearer you see the parallels or the common threads that tie these concepts together, the more freedom you will have to express yourself."" The music is challenging and suitable for the advanced drummer. Styles include odd meters, metric modulation, tuplets, funk, Latin, mid and up-tempo swing, and fusion.This set includes the Complete Modern Drumset CD, which is a play-along for drums with full stereo versions of the music charts included in the book. Sketch, Electric, Red Moon, Home, Funky Track, Jazz Swing, and 32 Bar are recorded with drums and without drums (the tracks without drums include a click track) so that the student can listen and play-along. Solo sections are included on most of the tracks. Instrumentation is drums, bass, keyboards and sax.EAN: 9780786665532Languages: EnglishBinding: Spiral-boundItem Condition: UsedLikeNew
