Stickings & Orchestrations for Drum Set (book/CD)

Series: Berklee Press
Discover a new world of drumming!

Expand your musical depth and bring new levels of power and speed to your drumming! Orchestrate sticking patterns into drum grooves. Open up and explore the fundamental rudiments, singles, doubles, flams, paradiddles, and ratamacues. Go beyond pattern concepts to make stickings flow smoothly into one another, so that you can better express your musical ideas. Master drummer and Berklee professor Casey Scheurell shows how basic stickings translate into drum set inventions and orchestrations. Technical explanations and extensive practice exercises with the play-along CD will help you make your fills become more vibrant and your solos more virtuosic.

• Master the basic sticking possibilities
• Increase your solo vocabulary
• Transmit improvisational ideas from your brain to your drums
• Develop fluid technique
• Improve your sight-reading skills
• Apply these techniques to rock, funk, Latin, reggae, swing, and blues
• Drum charts included!

"A new and fresh approach to the drumset. It develops a technique that affords the player an effortless style for playing a very musical performance." — Vic Firth, Tympanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
"This book will prove beneficial to the beginning as well as veteran player, providing each with a window through which disciplined practice will bring creative results. Bravo, Casey!" — Peter Erskine