Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Drums
Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!
by Patrick Wilson
Drum Set - Sheet Music

Item Number: 19907563
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Drumset - Beginner

SKU: AP.41484

Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!. Composed by Patrick Wilson. This edition: 2nd. Method/Instruction; Percussion - Drumset Method or Collection. Teach Yourself Series. Book and CD. 92 pages. Alfred Music #00-41484. Published by Alfred Music (AP.41484).

ISBN 9780739099025. UPC: 038081463612. English.

Learn to play the drums and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with a newly revised edition of this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various drum types and the sounds they create, playing basics, proper drumstick grips, and getting acquainted with standard drum notation. You will then move right along to playing different lines with different tempos, rhythms, and grooves---all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical and drum notation. You will learn to play beats and fills in an array of musical styles, including rock, country, jazz and Latin. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play in a band and read standard drum music.
The book features the following helpful resources for reference during and after your lessons:
* Technique builders
* Daily workouts to improve your playing
* Practice tips
* Hints on purchasing equipment, tuning and sound modification, drumset maintenance
* Plus much more.

About Teach Yourself Series

Be your own teacher, and let Alfred's Teach Yourself series guide you every step of the way. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Each method begins with basic fundamentals, such as hand position, holding the instrument, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. Then move along to playing well-known songs -- all as you continue to increase your ever-growing ability to read music and understand your instrument. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including pop, blues, folk, and more. Alfred's Teach Yourself series opens up a brand-new world of musical knowledge and gives you everything you need to know to start playing now!

  • Mini Music Lesson: Flags and Beams
  • More Sixteenths
  • Dotted rhythms
  • Mini Music Lesson: Dotted Rhythms--Waking Up the Music
  • Digging In!
  • Hi-Hat Technique
  • Rolls
  • Rolllin' Over
  • Technique Builder #4: Introduction to the Multiple-Bounce Roll
  • Triplets
  • More Triplets
  • Mini Music Lesson: Pick-Ups
  • Technique Builder #5
  • Mini Music Lesson: First and Second Endings
  • New Meters
  • Basic Beats Using New Meters
  • Mini Music Lesson: Multiple Dynamics
  • Special Techniques
  • Fills Using Special Techniques
  • Help!
  • Part IV: Playing Beats & Fills
  • Practicing This Section
  • Rock
  • Early
  • Hard/Metal
  • Disco/Dance
  • Reggae (Ska)
  • Funk
  • Shuffle
  • Sitting In: Early ('60s); Metal; Reggae; Funk
  • Country
  • Bluegrass; Early
  • Waltz; Shuffle (Rock-a-Billy)
  • Up Tempo (Fiddle Tunes); Rock; "Train" Rhythm
  • Sitting In: Waltz; "Train" Rhythm; Rock
  • Jazz
  • Up Tempo
  • Blues; Dixieland
  • Ballads
  • Straight Time/Swing
  • Waltz
  • Sitting In: Dixieland; Ballad; Swing & Shuffle; Waltz
  • Latin
  • Samba; Bossa Nova; Calypso
  • Cha Cha; Tango; Mambo
  • Rumba (Bolero); Beguine
  • Sitting In: Bossa Nova; Calypso; Cha Cha, Tango & Rumba
  • Special Requests
  • Polka; Waltz; Mexican Hat Dance; Charleston
  • Cancan; Hora; Irish Jig; Two-Step; Bunny Hop/ "Hokie-Pokie"
  • Part V: Odds & Ends
  • Keeping Your Equipment in Shape
  • Replacing a Drumhead
  • Tuning, Drumheads
  • Being Your Own Teacher
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Other Useful Alfred Drumset & Percussion Publications
  • Get into the Groove
  • Rockin', Reelin', Readin' and Repeatin'
  • Mini Music Lesson: The Repeat Sign
  • Mixin' It Up
  • It Takes Two
  • Stick to It!
  • Technique Builder #2
  • Crazy Eighths
  • More Eighths
  • Look Ma, No Hands
  • Keeping Time
  • Mini Music Lesson: Phrases
  • Easy Does It
  • Mini Music Lesson: One-Bar Repeat Sign
  • Technique Builder #3: Introduction to the Double-Stroke Roll
  • Three's Company
  • Mini Music Lesson: Two-Bar Repeat Sign
  • Fill in The Blanks
  • Part III: More Basics
  • Note & Rest Review
  • Sweet Sixteenths
  • Part I: Getting Started
  • A Brief History of the Drums
  • What to Play (Selecting Your Instruments)
  • How-to-Play Basics
  • Using Your Grip--The Wrist
  • Using Your Grip--The Fingers
  • Technique Builder #1: Introduction to the Single-Stroke Roll
  • Play Now!
  • Your First Experiments
  • Learning from the Book
  • How to Read Music
  • Mini Music Lesson: Symbols for Sounds--Notes, Symbols for Silence--Rests
  • The Framework
  • Reading Your First Lines of Music
  • The Lines & Spaces--Where Instruments Are Indicated
  • Using Your Feet
  • Where to Play
  • Part II: Learning the Basics
  • Mini Music Lesson: The Pace of Music--Tempo