February 3rd, 2010 
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- ISBN13: 9781884365324
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This guide to popular drum styles offers approximately 400 musical examples in standard drum notation showing grooves and practical variations, and provides overviews of the history and development of almost all popular music styles. Among the many styles and subsidiary styles covered are blues, rock, jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, klezmer, zydeco, funk, bossa nova, polka, Dixieland, surf, and disco. While this resource and two-CD set can serve as a simple encyclopedia for those who need to know how to play a particular style, suggestions on varying the beat patterns for those who want to explore further and create their own patterns are also included. In addition, the two CDs contain performances of the musical … More >>
The Drummer’s Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco
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When my son recently decided to get back into drumming this was one of the recommended books by his teacher. It is well-written and an excellent tool, however it’s a little abstract for him—he would prefer to stick with good ol’ rock and roll!
Rating: 3 / 5
I am sorry to say this, usually I rate dvs and books 4-5 stars cause I have bought very nice, fun and instructive items until I bought this book. I am not a professional drummer, but I am advanced, and there were many subjects I already knew about this. Anyway, it has many WRONG things!!! What made me buy this was the pretty neat title: The Drummer’s Bible. Play from afr-cuban to Zydeco… screw this… thats the name of the book just to sell… but is not worth since this guys are wrong in many stuff.. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY IN THIS BOOK… Many concepts are wrong!
Rating: 1 / 5
My son is truly enjoying this book and is mastering the skills in it. Good challenge for the drummer.
Rating: 5 / 5
When I bought this book was because it has information about the “bomba¨ a rhythm from Puerto Rico. The whole information about the “bomba” is incorrect. Since the book has no footnotes I have no idea where the authors took the data. I read in French, André Pierre Ledru’s second volume, the one about Puerto Rico, of his “Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, St-Thomas, Ste-Croix et Porto-Rico, exécuté par ordre du gouvernement français, de septembre 1796 à juin 1798, Paris, 1810″ and there is no a single mention of the word “bomba”. The confusion was when in 1863, Julio de Vizcarrondo, a Puerto Rican living in Spain, translated the word “bamboula” the name of the drum for playing an African dance, as “bomba”. But “bamboula” is a common word registered in the African languages in the American Continent, even in USA and France. I have not check in Portuguese, but most probably they have it, also. In Puerto Rican Spanish we have “bámbula”.
Second, the dance Ledru saw was not in Aibonito. Aibonito is a town located in the mountains of Puerto Rico looking to the South, and mostly white “criollo” population. What Ledru says is that trying to go to Aibonito he got lost and ended up in a hacienda, close to the river and town of Loíza. Loíza is a black town founded by “libertos”, that means former slaves. By the way, they also owned slaves. There he saw an African dance. He gives the name, also a common name, “calenda”.
A friend of mine heard the example given in the CD for this music. He is an expertise of the “bomba” dance, he also makes “bomba” drums, and he told me that music is not “bomba”.
The authors try to put almost every Caribbean music under Cuban music. What a bias! Cuba is neither the father nor the mother of Caribbean music.
If the book has so many inaccurate data as these, I wonder about the rest of the book.
Manuel Domenech
Rating: 1 / 5
a very good book, describes almost all styles, with drum notation, remarks and accompanying CD. worth to buy !
Rating: 5 / 5