The drummer's bible How to play every drum style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco

Mick Berry

Book - 2012

Provides approximately 500 drum grooves in standard drum notation, as well as overviews of the history and development of almost all popular music styles. The dozens of styles covered include blues, rock, jazz, funk, Afro-Cuban, bossa nova, samba, metal, country, polka, punk, klezmer, surf, and cajun/zydeco.--back cover

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Published
Tucson, Ariz. : See Sharp Press 2012.
Language
English
Main Author
Mick Berry (-)
Other Authors
Jason Gianni (-)
Edition
2nd ed
Item Description
"The two accompanying CDs feature performances of nearly 200 grooves from the book, including all primary style examples"--back cover
Physical Description
xvii, 211 p. : music ; 28 cm. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211) and discography (p. 203-209)
ISBN
9781937276195
  • CD track listings
  • 1. Acid jazz
  • 2. African contemporary
  • World beat
  • Soukous
  • Bikutsi
  • 3. Afro-Cuban
  • Clave
  • Cowbell
  • 6/8 patterns for drum set
  • Cascara
  • Guaguanco
  • Mambo
  • ChaCha
  • Mozambique
  • Songo
  • Bomba
  • Merengue
  • Beguine
  • Bolero
  • Conga
  • Cumbia
  • Danzon
  • Palito
  • Pilon
  • Plena
  • 4. Blues
  • Standard Blues shuffle
  • Chicago (Jazz) shuffle
  • Backdoor shuffle
  • Backbeat shuffle
  • Texas shuffle
  • Purdie shuffle
  • (Ghost note shuffle)
  • 12/8 Slow Blues patterns
  • Straight Blues/Rock grooves
  • Blues rumba
  • Blues mambo
  • 5. Brazilian
  • Samba
  • Batucada
  • Baiao
  • Bossa nova
  • Partido alto
  • Afoxe
  • 6. Cajun/Zydeco
  • Two-step
  • Waltz
  • Shuffle
  • Train beat
  • 7. Caribbean
  • Calypso
  • Soca
  • Ska
  • Reggae (one drop)
  • Rockers
  • Steppers
  • 8. Country
  • Bluegrass
  • Western swing
  • Two-beat (two-step)
  • Shuffle
  • Western
  • Train beat
  • Country Rock/Modern Country
  • Waltz
  • Ballad 9. Disco
  • 10. Drum & bass/Jungle
  • 11. Flamenco
  • Traditional flamenco
  • Pop flamenco
  • 12. Funk
  • New Orleans funk
  • Displaced funk
  • Linear funk
  • Ghost note funk
  • Funk Rock
  • Cascara funk
  • 13. Gospel
  • 14. Hip hop/Rap
  • Standard hip hop
  • Slower feels
  • Half-time feels
  • 15. Jazz
  • New Orleans second line
  • Dixieland
  • Big Band
  • Small Band (Be bop, cool jazz, avante garde)
  • Jazz waltz
  • Brushes/ballads
  • 16. Klezmer
  • Bulgar
  • Freylakhs
  • Hora
  • Khosidl
  • Terkisher
  • 17. Latin rock
  • Standard rock
  • Baiao
  • Mambo
  • Rumba
  • Soca
  • 18. March
  • Standard marches
  • New Orleans second line
  • Cuban comparsa
  • Brazilian baiao
  • 19. Metal
  • Grooves (blast beat, etc.)
  • Double bass playing
  • 20. Middle Eastern
  • Traditional Middle Eastern grooves
  • Middle Eastern pop
  • 21. Odd time
  • Odd meters
  • Breaking up standard meters
  • Creating additional odd time meters
  • 22. Polka
  • 23. Punk
  • 24. Rock
  • Early Rock
  • Rockabilly
  • Standard Rock
  • Half-time standard Rock
  • Fusion
  • 25. Surf
  • Standard surf grooves
  • Surf ballad
  • Surf Tom pattern
  • 26. Techno
  • 27. Wedding dances
  • Tarantella
  • Hava nagila
  • Rumba
  • Tango
  • Viennese waltz
  • American waltz
  • Fox trot
  • 28. Miscellaneous grooves
  • Arara
  • Boogaloo
  • Guajira
  • Habanera
  • Israeli
  • Jig
  • Joropo
  • Nanigo
  • Norteña
  • Pachanga
  • Paso doble
  • La raspa
  • Tex Mex
  • Zouk
  • 29. Fills
  • 30. Polyrhythms
  • Tuning
  • Drum rudiments
  • The most common grooves.
Review by Library Journal Review

This guide to basic rhythm patterns is an essential resource for drummers. Berry and Gianni use notation and an accompanying CD to demonstrate grooves for over 140 dance styles, with a brief history of each. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.