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Not just another book of beats and rolls, The Ultimate Guide To Rock Drums is the first fully developed system that teaches you what you want and when you need it. This system, based on years of teaching experience takes you from basic rock grooves right up to heavy rock, punk and funky beats in a short amount of time. All exercises are laid out in a logical fashion, building upon each other from chapter to chapter. Learn how to read and understand drum notation in a way that is unique and straight ahead. The Ultimate Guide To Rock Drums gives you the drumset skills you need to go out and start rocking with a band TODAY!
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The Ultimate Guide to Rock Drums by Neal Busby and Brad McNeice
Congratulations! You have just purchased the most complete and straight forward guide to rock drumming on the market today! Neal and Brad are two of Canadas busiest drum teachers because they offer one thing that many other teachers don’t... RESULTS! The material in this book is easy to learn, and organized so there is a natural progression from start to finish. This means that you not only get results... but you get them FAST! Visit www.theultimateguidetorockdrums.com to get news on future publications, and access to all kinds of free media!!! But enough chit chat... LET’S GET ROCKIN’
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Table of Contents Introduction
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Chapter 1 • • • • • • • • • •
Eighth Note Rock Eighth and Sixteenth Fills Eighth Note Rock With Sixteenth Snares Eighth Note Rock with Sixteenth Kicks Eighth Note Rock With Sixteenth Kick and Snares The Big Four Eighth Note Rock On The Floor Tom Three, Three, Two Flams Eighth Note Rock With Open Hats
4-11 12-25 26-31 32-35 36-37 38-39 40-41 42-43 44-46 47-48
Chapter 2 • Sixteenth Note Slow Rock • Sixteenth And Thirty-Second Note Fills
49-56 57-59
Chapter 3 • Sixteenth Note fast Rock • Broken Sixteenth Fills
60-70 71-75
Chapter 4 • Quarter Note Fast Rock • Fast Rock Fills
76-88 89-91
Chapter 5 • • • •
Triplet Rock Shuffle Rock Shuffle Fast Rock Triplet Fills
92-94 95-99 100-104 105-107
Introduction
Reading Notation This picture of a standard five piece drum set clarifies the names of the drums in your set and shows you what they look like when they’re written in music.
Hi-hat
Crash Tom 1
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Below is this books notation legend. It is a good idea to memorize this legend and all of the drum names by quizzing yourself. Your confidence in knowing which note is which will allow you to progress through the book quickly.
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Understanding Time Most rock music is written in 4/4 time. This means that when you count a bar of music you count “One, Two, Three, Four” and then repeat. The exercises below represent the common elements of 4/4 rock. This bar is an example of quarter notes played on the hi-hat. A quarter note can be identified as a note with a stem. This note should be played on the hi-hat with your right hand and counted out loud “One, Two, Three, Four”. R
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The next bar is an example of eighth notes played on the hi-hat. Eighth notes are simply a sub-divided quarter note. This means that two eighth notes take up the same amount of space as one quarter note. You can identify an eighth note as a note with a stem and one connecting line on the top called a tail. This bar is to be played on the hi-hat with your right hand and counted out loud “One, and, Two, and, Three, and, Four, and” R
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The final bar is an example of sixteenth notes played on the hi-hat. A sixteenth note is a subdivided eighth note. This means that two sixteenth notes take up the same amount of space as one eighth note and four sixteenth notes take up the same amount of space as one quarter note. You can identify a sixteenth note as a note with a stem and two tails. This bar is to be played on your hi-hat with your right hand and counted out loud “One, E, and, A, Two, E, and, A, Three, E, and, A, Four, E, and, A” RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Introduction Building a Beat
Enough of the technical stuff. Now that we’ve learned notation and counting, lets build a beat and start rocking! The First bar is a classic example of a back beat pattern on the kick and snare. Count out loud as we place the kick drum on the “one” and “Three” and the snare drum one the “Two” and “Four”. It’s important to play slowly at first and make sure your timing is solid. L
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Bar two is the same rhythm between the kick and snare as bar one, but now we will add a quarter note hi-hat. Make sure that our hi-hat is landing directly on top of the kick and snare so the beat sounds tight. R
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The final bar is the same kick and snare pattern as the previous two exercises. This time we’ll play eighth notes on our hi-hat. R
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Starting to sound like something? This is where it all begins!
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Eighth Note Rock
Eighth Note Rock The following page represents eight common placements of kick drum rhythms across a bar of eighth notes. You probably recognize these beats from many popular rock songs from classic to modern. Although the beats in this chapter are written as hats, kick and snare, you can easily move your right hand to your crash, ride or floor tom. This will dramatically change the overall sound of every beat in this chapter, leaving you with many more possibilities.
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Eighth Note Rock
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Eighth Note Rock With Double Snares
To the previous beats, we can now add some extra snare hits to increase our beat vocabulary. These double snare beats are typical of 50’s pop rock and surf rock music.
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Eighth Note Rock Four on the Floor
If you want to make people dance, the best way to get them to do it is playing FOUR ON THE FLOOR! Placing a kick drum on every quarter note creates a constant rhythm that is very easy to move to. Keeping the quarter note steady on all four beats we can examine the eighth note possibilities on our snare drum. This will include using combinations of double snares and for the first time in this book, the use of “Off” beats. The “Off” beats in these patterns will be any snare that lands in between the quarter note bass drum.
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