Modern Drum Method Grade 2
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The exercises in Grade 2 focus significantly on reading dotted note and rest values, rock, funk and swing beat variations, techniques for tuning the drum set, and a section featuring 2, 3 and 4 beat drum fill examples. The accompanying online audio features every exercise covered in the text.
A supplementary DVD entitled ""Modern Drum Method Grades 1-3"" is also available and features many of the concepts and exercises introduced in all three method books.
If you are a new drum student who has just purchased your first kit, or an experienced player looking for ways to improve your fundamentals and sound production, this book series can help clarify many of the mechanical and conceptual drumming skills for you. Throughout, Steve explains each drumming topic as if he were teaching a private lesson.
Reading exercises featuring dotted whole, half, quarter and eighth notes and rests
Exercises to help develop sight reading ability
Eighth and sixteenth note rock beats
Information on the history and development of the drum set
Ideas on tuning and choosing drumheads, cymbals and sticks
2, 3 and 4 beat drum fill examples" Includes access to online audio.
Graderings en resensies
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Jazz drummer, author, and educator Steve Fidyk has toured and recorded with Maureen McGovern, New York Voices, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, The Capitol Bones, The Taylor/Fidyk Big Band, an ensemble he co-leads with Stan Kenton arranger Mark Taylor, and is currently the drummer with the Army Blues Jazz Ensemble from Washington D.C. As a leader, Fidyk's discography includes: Big Kids (U.S. Roots), A Perfect Match (Write Groove), and Live at Blues Alley (OA2), and can be heard on over 50 recordings as a contributing artist. Fidyk has served on the faculty at Wilkes University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, George Mason University, and The University of Maryland and is presently a jazz faculty member at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds a master's degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's in Music Education from Wilkes University.
