Blues Drums Method: An Essential Study of Blues Drums for the Beginning to Advanced

David Barrett · Kevin Coggins

Jun 2016 · Mel Bay Publications

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Blues Drums, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, contains over 250 examples of blues drum patterns and technique-building exercises! Subjects covered in this book are: The History of Blues Drumming; Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound; Exercises for Development of Technique (Sticking and foot patterns specific to playing blues); Blues Shuffles & Swing Beats, Slow Blues, Ballads and the Triplet Groove (12/8 Time); Blues Rhumba, Calypso Beats and Samba Feel; Two-Beat/Cut Time; Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats; New Orleans, Soul and Funk Influences; and Build-ups & Fills.

This book is accompanied by an online audio recording of all examples played on the drums with the backing of the School of the Blues All-Star Band. It is recommended that you also purchase Blues Drums Play-Along Trax to have full-length play-along trax for you to apply what you learn in this book. Includes access to online audio.

About the author

David Barrett is the world's leading expert in blues harmonica education..blazing the way in every facet of its education for 28 years. By age 20, David had released his first book, Building Harmonica Technique, with one the world's largest publishers, Mel Bay Publications. This book was the first serious blues harmonica method to be released in the market. David Barrett is now the world's most published author of blues harmonica lesson material, with almost 70 book/CD sets and videos published. Before BluesHarmonica.com David was an active writer for various publications. For ten years, he wrote a featured column for Blues Revue.

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