Publisher: Mel Bay
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

Can you play all of your favorite songs? Are you trying to take your playing to the next level? Then it's time to learn to burn! In this book and accompanying audio you'll learn interesting and fun ways to augment your drum set vocabulary, with extensive descriptions and examples of ideas from indie Rock, Afro-Beat, Drum and Bass and more.
Your groove, chops, reading and creativity will all be challenged. You will learn to burn!

Contents:
How To Use This Book
Snare Drum Tuning and Performance Concepts
Drum Set Key
1/4 and 1/8 Note Grooves
Broken Hat Grooves
Unisons
3-Note Warm-Ups and Grooves
Tom Grooves

1. Kim Plainfield Advanced Concepts
2. Funkifying the Clave: Afro-Cuban Grooves for Bass & Drums
3. Afro Cuban Big Band Play-Along
4. Afro Cuban Drumming for the Drumset DVD
5. Traditional Afro-Cuban Concepts in Contemporary Music
6. Ritmi afro-cubani per Batteria