This great new book/audio provides an inside look at the drum styles of Metallica. The transcriptions present excerpts from 19 songs from Kill 'Em All through Reload, exactly as played by the great Lars Ulrich. Includes detailed performance notes on these metal masterpieces: Battery • Damage, Inc. • Enter Sandman • Fade to Black • Fuel • Nothing Else Matters • One • Seek & Destroy • Until It Sleeps • Welcome Home (Sanitarium) • and more. Also features an historical retrospective of the band, info on Lars' drum setups, and a split-channel CD with normal-speed and slowed-down versions of the songs. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Approved by Metallica!
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Drumming in Flow will improve your drumming through a focus on breathing, getting you into a zone of relaxation, focus, and peak performance on a consistent basis. Author Ray LeVier provides specific breathing exercises based on long-established meditation techniques coupled with drumming patterns to teach the focus on the breath. LeVier then delves into modern drum set vocabulary with a fun, exciting, and musical series of concepts that can be applied to all styles. These include permutations, linear concepts, voicings, and advanced sycopations, the likes of which can be heard in the playing of Keith Carlock, Vinnie Colaiuta, and others. Throughout the book are quotes and messages that will keep you inspired on the path to drumming greatness. The book also includes extensive video demonstrations of the examples.
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Deep dive into the history and musical vocabulary of popular styles like rock, jazz, blues, country and soul along with subgenres such as go-go, surf rock, no wave, Afrobeat, dub and electronic dance music.
Drumming from A to Z: More Stuff You Can Use, by Rob Mitzner, takes a deep dive into the history and musical vocabulary of popular styles like rock, jazz, blues, country and soul along with subgenres such as go-go, surf rock, no wave, Afrobeat, dub and electronic dance music. Each of the 32 sections features original music play-alongs and in-depth video lessons, plus interviews and tips from top New York session players.
As the sequel to the author's first offering, Drumming in a Band: Stuff You Can Use, this book provides historical context, fun stories and recommended listening for each style, helping students to understand where the music came from along with how to play it. Some grooves are an homage to influential drummers such as Questlove, Levon Helm and Jim Black, while others focus on musical moments in time like the arena rock era of the 1980s or industrial music in the '90s. All the material is drawn from the author's real-world experience as a working musician playing different styles. This book is the perfect companion for intermediate and advanced drummers who want to broaden their musical horizons and work in everyday band situations.
169 pages with online audio and video
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