March 20th, 2010 
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- 96 Pages
- Published by HL
- Softcover
Product Description
This book is a supplement to the first volume of Drum Machine Patterns. In it you will find over 260 rhythm patterns and breaks. These are original patterns that can be programmed easily on any drum machine. This book contains the rhythms most often used in contemporary music, and many patterns incorporate flams, to be used on the latest generation of drum machines. … More >>
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This is a drum pattern book. If you are looking for a book on how to play drums then this isn’t it. I also doubt it would be of any use to an advanced drummer. If on the other hand you are a beginner and / or trying to program a drum machine then this book is very useful. I haven’t had time to try out many of the patterns but it looks like most of the basic stuff is there.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this book because I’m a guitar player, not a drummer, and I needed some ideas for my drum machine to record. I wish I could return this book (it was a present).
Please believe me, you will learn much more about drum patterns if you search online for drum TABs. To program my machine now, I look for a TAB to a song that has a similar beat and go from there. You could even do a search for basic drum patterns or something similar and in a matter of minutes have exponentially more and better information than what is contained in this book. Did I say it strongly enough…this book was ABSOLUTELY no help.
The comments from previous users, as far as dynamics, are right on. But again, an online search should point you to an excellent article by Nicholas Rowland. Save your money…please.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well, I just got a Roland tr-808. It a lot of antiquated features I wish
newer ones had. This book provides ideas for fills, intros, and basic patterns. Good stuff!!!
Rating: 4 / 5
Years ago I was very into electronic music and searched for a book like this. No babble no fruit just drum patterns…recently I found some of my old gear and started setting it up. I searched around on amazon to buy something, well cause i was buying a present for someone and I wanted free shipping. Lame I know. But I found this book (there is an older version with 200 patterns – I think its the same but this one has some added pages, so get this one).
The book does exactly what its supposed to supply basic drum beats, variations, fills and breaks, in a bare bones matrix representation. The beats are good, the patterns are not awesome – this book provides a bases to build from. The breaks are OK but all these patterns start to get great when you tweak them, change to strange samples that fit the niche of whatever basic instrument and start to layer effects. Its not cheating because you programmed it and didn’t rip from another song…like some…dj –
if you program beats, buy this book
Rating: 5 / 5
I am not very musically inclined, but I love making it. I use only a computer, no drums, so these beat patterns have been wonderful. I would never be original enough to come up interesting beats on my own. It’s also helped me learn about rhythm.
Rating: 4 / 5