The Drummer's Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco - Softcover

Berry, Mick; Gianni, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884365329 ISBN 13: 9781884365324

Publisher: See Sharp Press, 2003

Synopsis

Provides more than four hundred drum grooves in standard drum notation for more than a dozen styles of music, including blues, rock, jazz, country, reggae, heavy metal, polka, and punk, along with information on the history and development of music styles.

About this title

About the Author:

Mick Berry has been playing drums for over 30 years, having studied with such legends as New Orleans drummers James Black and John Vidacovich, and Afro-Cuban drummer Walfredo Reyes, Sr. He has accompanied such renown artists/groups as Henry Butler, Eddie Henderson, Michael Wolff, E.C. Scott, The Spiral Starecase, The New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra, The San Francisco Mime Troupe and The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He currently resides in San Francisco where he performs and records with numerous bands playing a wide range of styles: jazz, blues, Latin jazz, R&B, orchestra pit, rock, and country. Jason Gianni has been a session drummer, teacher and performer in the Bay Area for close to a decade. His work can be heard on a wide variety of TV and radio commercials, and most notably, the theme song for the popular children's cartoon, SpongeBob Squarepants. Jason is the featured drummer on the fall 2003 release of the progressive rock band Magellan's new recording entitled Impossible Figures on InsideOut records. As a writer, his work has appeared in Modern Drummer magazine as well as the West coast "Jazz" Steps newsletter.

Review:

"[Q]uite an undertaking, researched and written with care." -- Modern Drummer, May 2004

About this edition

• Publisher: See Sharp Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1884365329
• ISBN 13: 9781884365324
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 181