BOOKS AND DVD'S
Beyond The Backbeat Learn how to take any basic rock/funk drum beat and morph it into jazz and world music feels. Improve your chops, expand your versatility, and develop your own style. The accompanying CD features over 90 play-along tracks to test out your morphing techniques as you groove in all contemporary styles.
Voted a top instructional book in Modern Drummer's readers poll.
$19.95 (US)
Accelerate Your Drumming This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Larry Finn shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to lay down a strong groove in any style of music. It offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels. These include: hand development • basic grooves • advanced grooves for funk, rock, hip-hop and Latin styles • advanced fills. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying 64-page booklet. 60 minutes.
$24.85
More Accelerate Your Drumming Picking up where the Accelerate Your Drumming DVD (#00320459) leaves off, this DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Larry Finn shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to lay down a strong groove in any style of music. It offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels. 60 minutes.
$24.95
Pocket Grooves---When working on any method it is important to remember drum vocabulary is a means to the ends….MUSIC. This book focuses on developing linear or melodic variety within back beat grooves by keeping the kick and snare parts constant throughout each example while varying the more extraneous voices such as ride cymbal, hi hat, hi hat foot, ghost notes, etc.
Some sample CD's I've played on. People use these tracks and fills for their own CD's, commercials, and other things.
