Books

Trading is a collection of advanced jazz concepts from Austin-based drummer educator Nic Marcy. It contains essential concepts for jazz time playing and soloing in a modern musical environment. Marcy explains the basics of jazz structure but immediately delves into advanced concepts such as asymmetrical phrases, complex comping, rate modulations, stickings applied to four-bar phrases, and various other creative ideas to spice up your timekeeping and soloing.

RARE AUTOGRAPHED COPY - VERY LIMITED QUANITITY! The legendary book that defined limb independence for drummers, signed by author Jim Chapin. This is the white-covered printing with plastic comb binding like the original.

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The Code of Movement: Developing Accent Freedom with Paradiddles, by Guy Gelso (Zebra) with Dom Famularo, is about understanding the movement of the sticks and the position they should be in for the most fluid performance to allow your drumming to be more efficient, using the least amount of energy for maximum results. At the same time, the book gives you the ability to execute accents anywhere in the flow of the most common paradiddle stickings, giving you freedom of expression in any style of music.

Accenting the Weaker Side is focused on developing control, strength, and facility with the weaker hand and foot for drum set playing. Conceived as a follow-up book to The Weaker Side (Dom Famularo and Stephane Chamberland) and Accents and Rebounds (George Lawrence Stone), Accenting the Weaker Side provides an intensive one-year program to build strength with the weaker hand/foot. All great drummers have one thing in common: they play relaxed with both hands and feet. The predecessor to this book, The Weaker Side, is about developing your weaker hand and foot to give you more balance and control. Accenting the Weaker Side adds another level of dimension of movement that will challenge you and test your level of control. The accents in the book are played following the code of movements presented in Accents and Rebounds. Designed to be played first on pad or snare, the rhythms can also be orchestrated around the drums.

The Odd Time Drumming book, by David Lewitt, takes a practical and fun approach to learn odd times, covering 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 11/8, 13/8, 15/8, 17/16 and 19/16. Together, this group of time signatures cover much of what is used in fusion and progressive rock, and each time signature is explored with up to 36 different groove examples from easy to difficult. There is also a musical etude for each meter.