Song List:
About the Author
Introduction
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR DRUMSET
Setting Up Your Drumset
Tuning Your Drums: Two Methods
Cross-Tensioning
Clockwise Tensioning
Holding the Drumsticks
Matched Grip
Traditional Grip
Practice Tip
COUNTING & NOTE VALUES
Counting Exercises
Basic Note Values
Notes
Eighth Notes
The Staff, Measures, and Drum Notation
Using a Metronome
Metronome Exercise
Basic Drum Notation
EIGHTH-NOTE-BASED ROCK BEATS: BASIC PATTERNS
Introducing the Hi-Hat
Eighth-Note Rock Beats
The Quarter Rest
The Eighth Rest
Two-Measure Beats and Introducing the Floor Tom
The Ride Cymbal
Two Ways to Play the Ride Cymbal
The Half Rest
EIGHTH-NOTE HI-HAT BEATS
Open and Closed Hi-Hat
Half-Open Hi-Hat Beats
Stepped Hi-Hat
Hi-Hat Played with Left Foot
SIXTEENTH-NOTE ROCK
Sixteenth Notes
Note Value Comparison
Practice Suggestions
SIXTEENTH-NOTE HI-HAT & CYMBAL BEATS
ROCK DRUM FILLS, FOUR- & EIGHT-BAR FORMS
Eight-Bar Forms
Measure Repeat
Crash Cymbal
Tom-tom
Four-Bar Forms
Fill Tips
Getting Around the Set
Adding Rests to the Fill
Sixteenth-Note Fills
Hand & Foot Combinations
TRIPLET ROCK
Slow Blues
Shuffle Rock
FOUR TUNES
Eighth-Note Rock Blues
Funk Rock Tune
Heavy Rock Tune
Shuffle Blues
A Few Final Words
