GETTING STARTED ON DRUMSAVAILABLE PRODUCTS: DVD | Bundle Pack
START YOUR BEGINNERS - THE RIGHT WAY!An entertaining and educational way for beginning drummers to learn the right way to play - right from the start.
Covers all the concepts a new drummer needs, such as Setting Up and Unpacking your new drums, The Bass Drum, The Bass Drum Pedal, Rack Tom-Toms, Floor Tom-Toms, The Snare Drum, The Hi-Hat, The Power Square, Cymbals and Stands, The final Tune-Up, and of course - Start Playing!
Also covers how to choose, hold and use your sticks, How to control your pedals, a Basic Coordination lesson, Three grooves you can play right now!, Four cool drum fills, Three play-along songs you can jam with, Tips on your next steps, and Tommy playing along to a tune.
DVDGreat for beginning students or for teachers looking for new ways to get beginning drummers up and running!
BEGINNER DRUM PACKCombines Getting Started on Drums with the best-selling Groove Essentials 1.0 DVD in a convenient, value-priced package.
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GROOVE ESSENTIALS 1.0AVAILABLE PRODUCTS: DVD | Play-Along Book | Bundle Packs
BEST SELLER - THE #1 DRUMSET METHOD IN THE WORLD!Based on the Groove Essentials™ poster created by Tommy Igoe and Vic Firth, Groove Essentials™ 1.0 presents 47 essential grooves from Rock, Jazz and R&B, Funk to World Ethnic music.
Mastering these patterns will greatly expand any drummers’ knowledge while developing a more well-rounded player with the confidence to perform invirtually, any musical situation. Styles include 8th-note, 16th-note and half-time Rock; Jazz waltz, shuffle and swing; R&B, Hip-Hop and Funk as well as World music styles, including Second Line, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Samba, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Bolero, and Tango. Tommy thoroughly explains each groove breaking each down to it’s basic elements and performing each one with and without a live band rhythm track at two different tempos.
DVDFeaturing a private lesson approach, Tommy demonstrates each pattern at the drums and also with a rhythm track, featuring real musicians.
PLAY-ALONG BOOKThe companion book to the best-selling DVD, this book contains charts and play-along mp3 files for every groove on the Groove Essentials 1.0 DVD!
DVD/PLAY-ALONG BOOK PACKAGECombines the best-selling Groove Essentials 1.0 DVD with the companion Play-Along book in a convenient, value-priced package.
GROOVE ESSENTIALS COMPLETEIncludes BOTH Groove Essentials 1.0 & 2.0 DVDs and companion Play-Along books - 100 grooves every drummer should know!
CHART
ROCKGroove 7 SLOW Track 13
B noitairaVA noitairaV
This song is so nasty that it could easily be in the funk section too, which again illustrates the powerful influence
that we have as drummers on the global flavor of a song. After you play this song down a few times with the
grooves on this page, try grabbing a couple of the funk grooves that are introduced in the next chapter, and see
how those grooves feel with this song. You can try mixing and matching different grooves from different chapters to
experiment with what fits and what doesn’t. Remember, it’s okay to make mistakes right now; we’re practicing! I
know a few professional chefs, and they all say they had to ruin many soufflés before becoming masters of their
art. A little less sugar here and a little more butter there create something new.
Variation A is a great pattern that I think you’ll enjoy playing. It’s busy without being too thick-sounding; give it a
try, and you’ll see what I mean. Variation B . . . holy cow, what the heck is that? It looks a little intimidating at first,
but it isn’t as scary as it seems. It is an advanced groove to be sure, and unless you have some decent coordination
and hand technique, this might be a good one to skip for now. However, if you feel up for it, try it as a complement
to the main groove of the song. Again, it’s a great spice to throw in once in awhile, and if you lay it in the groove
just right, it makes people say “Ooooh, I like that!”
This chart is very clear and easy to follow. Take a close look at the first bars of the piece. For beginners, that first
bar with the four slash marks is shorthand telling you to groove in the style of the music. It’s immediately followed
by a “7 More” bar, which, of course, means to play seven more bars. So, there are total of—drum roll, please—
eight bars. Our friend, the 8-bar phrase, is back, so please don’t think of this chart as a 1+7=8 formula; it’s just an
8-bar phrase that happens to look strange on paper. It’s much more musically savvy to think of this phrase simply
as an 8-bar phrase, and count it that way. The musicians, most of whom are playing melodic instruments, will be
thinking “8” as well, definitely not “1+7.” Lastly, when the percussion drops out, you are on your own, by yourself,
to hold this baby together, so hold it together.
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GROOVE ESSENTIALS 2.0AVAILABLE PRODUCTS: DVD | Play-Along Book | Bundle Packs
THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE #1 BEST-SELLER!Volume 2 of the Groove Essentials DVD Series features 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players!
Learn the difference between ghost and grace notes as well as important “go-to” grooves, like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats.
For more advanced players and professionals, Groove Essentials™ 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction, interpretation and manipulation- training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential. The DVD features more than 70 new songs covering 4/4, 2/2, 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures, with three levels of difficulty for 5/4, 7/8 and 9/8 meters. The grooves span rock, funk, R&B/hip-hop, jazz (sticks and brushes), world/specialty, extreme tempos, all-purpose, hybrid, rideless, classic and odd-meters.
DVD53 new grooves with demonstrations of each at the drums and also with a rhythm track, featuring real musicians, just like Groove Essentials 1.0.
PLAY-ALONG BOOKThe companion book to the best-selling DVD, this book contains charts and play-along mp3 files for every groove on the Groove Essentials 2.0 DVD!
DVD/PLAY-ALONG BOOK PACKAGECombines Groove Essentials 2.0 DVD with the companion Play-Along book in a convenient, value-priced package.
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CHART
WORLD/SPECIALTYGroove 84 Track 54
Variation A Variation B
We learned an Afro-Cuban 6/8 groove in the original GE called a Nanigo. But what if you took the “African” portion in
the right hand and combined it with a half-time backbeat in the left? That’s the feel that Groove 84 introduces—a very
common kind of groove hybrid (especially in modern jazz and rock). As with many African-based rhythms, it’s written in
6/8 but can be felt in “four”; I count it off on the DVD that way to show you the contrast.
Really listen to and appreciate all the musical elements going on in this track: busy percussion, a quasi-classical running
piano part, very spacious bass, and a screaming guitar solo over the top. This one is going to keep you busy.
Variation A is completely stripped down and features a slightly different bell pattern, while variation B features a slick
way to displace the time by simply phrasing in groups of two. Think of it like hot red pepper: a little goes a long way.
Half-Time 6/8
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GREAT HANDS FOR A LIFETIMEAVAILABLE PRODUCTS: DVD
THE MUST-HAVE HAND TECHNIQUE METHOD!A realistic, practical approach that will unlock your potential and protect your hands through years of drumming.
Great Hands for a Lifetime offers a realistic, practical approach that will unlock your potential and protect your hands through years of drumming. This incredible workout weaves the standard drum rudiments with original exercises to maintain your technique as well as inspire and challenge you for decades.
Developed to improve the strength, speed, stamina, comfort and control of every drummer, the 4-hour DVD features: Fulcrum Concepts, Rebound Strokes, Accents, Single/Double-Stroke Check Patterns, Rudiments, MP3s for on-the-go practicing, a 57-page eBook with extra practice material, wall-sized poster and compact fold-out guide, and an interview with Sonny Igoe (creator of The Lifetime Warmup™!).
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the lifetime warmup: basic
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