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The Online Guitar Store - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Drums, 2nd Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
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List Price: $21.95
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Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 786.9193
EAN: 9781592571628
ISBN: 159257162X
Label: Alpha
Manufacturer: Alpha
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-01-06
Publisher: Alpha
Release Date: 2004-01-06
Studio: Alpha
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Editorial Reviews:
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You can't beat this one for learning the basics!
This book covers everything the aspiring drummer needs to know-from an overview of drums and percussion history and theory; to information on purchasing, tuning, and maintaining drums; to basic music notation, rhythm, and time signatures; to snare drum fundamentals; playing a complete drum set; and basic beats for every style of music. In addition, this newly revised edition contains an audio CD featuring all exercises and solos from the book, tuning examples, and play along tracks.
€ Audio CD included
€ According to a Gallup survey, there are over 62 million amateur musicians in the U.S.
€ Drums are the third most popular instrument among amateur musicians
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Summary: A book that every drummer needs!
Comment: You have a rare treat in store when you get this book. The author is a professional writer who is also an accomplished drummer. What you get is writing as polished as anything ghostwritten, backed up with serious knowledge and passion. This is a great book to get you started and keep you going a long way. I'd suggest getting this book, and Tommy Igoe's Getting Started On Drums-Setting Up - Start Playing DVD DVD for anyone just starting to play drums.
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: Awesome book!
First of all it has some great info about buying drums, price ranges, brands, etc. Very good resource there.
Second, lots of "getting started" topics for the beginner drummer.
This book really is a must for anyone starting drumming. My only complaint, i wish there was more sheet music within the book, but that is a small negative when compared to the huge amount of info in this book.
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Summary: More is not always better.
Comment: I bought a set of drums and this book. I would read this book everyday as I would play the drums. This book is so complete in information that I read and read and read and never did get to the part to where I would start to learn how to play the drums. I finally just sold the book and the drums. I learned must of the history about drums from cave man on up but never made it to the part of learning how to play. If you are wanting to study the history of the drum for a book report this is a good book. If you want to learn to play the drums I would suggest buy a book that will get to the point.
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Summary: a very good book
Comment: I got this book becuase I was going to start giving drum lessons to my friend. I wanted to find out if I knew what I should teach him. This book taught me pretty much everything that I needed to teach him. I think every aspect of drumming is covered in it. It's a very good tool for any aspiring drummer.
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Summary: You'd be an idiot NOT to buy this book.
Comment: Of course, there's no arguing that the best way to learn how to play a musical instrument of any kind is through direct instruction from a teacher (even the author of this book admits so right from the start!) But that may not be possible (or affordable) for everyone, and besides, it never hurts to have instruction and reading material from many unique sources to be exposed to different styles and points of view.
This book is an excellent source for a beginning drummer, or someone who hasn't even yet purchased a set of sticks but is contemplating learning more about the drums. Miller takes the reader through selecting and setting up equipment, different kinds of percussion instruments, and points out drummers to listen to before starting in on the basics. He even recommends against diving into buying a full kit at first and instead starting solely with a good snare drum, in order to learn basics of stick control, rhythms and rudiments. Then he slowly adds in cymbal and bass patterns to develop independence and basic kinds of rhythms. Later chapters illustrate beats for rock, jazz, r&b, country, and odd time signatures, then begin to cover more advanced topics such as fills and solos.
I learned a lot about the basics of playing through this book (having a background in playing musical instruments but never the drums). I do agree with other reviewers to take his promoting of certain brands of drums with a grain of salt. You should take the time to explore different kits on your own and read other reviews before sinking your cash into any one brand. Also, one area I wish was covered here which I find the most difficult in playing is how to develop not just a drum *pattern* but an entire song. Even just some more hints on using fills or other "effects" to transition from one phrase of a song to the next would be good, instead of mostly sticking to repetitive 2-bar patterns. Also, a cd of the included drum patterns and beats would be useful--I know I had some trouble figuring out how some of the rudiments should sound just from reading this book, and had to search around elsewhere for sound samples to clear up my confusion.
Still, there is plenty of ground covered in this book already, and more than enough to recommend it for anyone looking to solidify their basics.
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