Make The Real Easy Book, Vol. 1 come alive for your drum students!
This book contains complete drum charts and instructional videos for each song in The Real Easy Book Vol. 1, as well as a primer for many styles of contemporary drumming.
The parts are simple enough for beginning players, but can easily be expanded upon by more advanced players. Additionally, this book gives your drum students access to a complete set of play-through videos for each song.
Originally developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop’s prestigious summer jazz camps, this book gives drummers a clear, accessible path to learning how to support a band — right from the first rehearsal.
There are also additional videos and study guides for particular drumming topics like: the "2-Feel", "Elvin Jones" style comping, basic set-ups and fills, Latin Jazz drum grooves, etc.
Each drum chart includes figures for the harmony, background and shout chorus sections of the arrangements. These easy, but varied parts give the drum student a good start in learning a variety of jazz drumming styles, from "2-feel" to "Samba" to "Funk".
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Suggested simplified grooves, and basic fills are included with many tunes for easy reference.
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Each drum part, though written in a given style, can easily be used to catch the same figures in different musical styles.
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Perfect for individual drum students of all ages, as well as jazz combos.
Contains the easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery and more!
Get yourself, or your beginning jazz combo, sounding good right away with these drum parts specifically written to musically enhance the 3-horn arrangements.
Spiral-bound, 108 pages, Table of Contents.
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Alan Hall has been a professional drum teacher for over 40 years. He has taught at Berklee College of Music, California Jazz Conservatory, Monterey Jazz Festival Middle School and High School Summer Camp, JazzCamp West, Cal State East Bay, and Lafayette Summer Music Jazz Camp. He's performed and/or recorded with international jazz artists Lee Konitz, Paul McCandless, Art Lande, Ed Simon, Geoffrey Keezer, Kenny Washington, Rebecca Parris, and Joyce Cooling. His articles have appeared in Down Beat and Percussive Notes magazines. Check out his website at: https://jazzdrumming.com/
