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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| What You're Not to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Setting a Solid Foundation | |
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| Drum Basics | |
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| Picking a Drum Apart from Head to Shell | |
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| Exploring How Drums Create Sound | |
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| Deconstructing the Drumset | |
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| Appreciating the Old-timers: Traditional Drums | |
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| Swingin' Sticks and Slapping the Skins | |
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| I've Got Rhythm | |
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| Developing a Sound Vocabulary | |
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| Adding Some Drumming Definitions | |
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| Becoming One with the Pulse (and I'm Not Talking Heartbeat) | |
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| Feeling the Meter | |
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| Embracing Odd Meter | |
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| Tapping into Drumming Techniques | |
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| Talkin's Technique: What You Need to Know | |
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| Perfecting your posture | |
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| Preventing injuries | |
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| Hitting the drum: It's (not) all in the wrist | |
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| Speaking Softly and Carrying Big Sticks | |
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| Holding the sticks | |
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| Understanding drumstick strokes | |
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| Painting a Variety of Textures with Brushes | |
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| Getting to know brush styles | |
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| Getting a grip on brushing techniques | |
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| Forging a Foundation with Rudiments | |
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| The single-stroke roll | |
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| The double-stroke roll | |
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| The paradiddle | |
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| The flam | |
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| The ruff | |
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| Getting the Most Out of Your Practice Sessions | |
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| Starting slowly | |
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| Counting out the rhythm | |
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| Thinking it through first | |
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| Thoughing out practice | |
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| Knowing when to stop | |
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| Getting a Handle on Hand Drumming Techniques | |
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| Taking Matters (and Tones) into Your Own Hands | |
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| Opting for Open Tones | |
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| Basic open tone stroke | |
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| Thumb stroke | |
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| The open slap tone | |
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| Bass tone | |
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| The rim stroke | |
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| Mastering Muted Tones | |
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| Basic muted tone | |
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| The closed slap stroke | |
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| The palm stroke | |
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| The heel-tip stroke | |
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| Venturing into Some Alternative Strokes | |
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| Burshing stroke | |
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| Drone tone | |
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| The snap | |
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| Trills | |
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| One-handed rolls | |
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| Keeping Your Options Open | |
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| Digging into the Drumset | |
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| Settling In Behind the Drumset | |
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| Setting Up Your Drumset | |
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| Sitting on the throne | |
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| Positioning the pedals | |
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| Securing the snare drum | |
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| Placing the tom-toms | |
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| Adjusting the ride cymbal | |
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| Angling the crash cymbals | |
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| Raising the hi-hats | |
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| Putting Your Foot Down | |
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| Beating the bass drum | |
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| Playing the hi-hats | |
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| Working Out: Exercises to Improve Your Hand- and Footwork | |
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| Rolling into Rock Drumming | |
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| Harnessing the Backbeat | |
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| Mastering the Basic Beats | |
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| Eighth-note feel | |
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| Sixteenth-note feel | |
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| Half-time feel | |
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| The rock shuffle | |
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| The half-time shuffle feel | |
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| Dressing Up the Basic Beats | |
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| Mixing up the hi-hat | |
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| Moving the backbeat | |
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| Adding syncopations | |
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| Incorporating fills | |
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| Beating the Blues | |
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| Finding the Pocket and Staying in It | |
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| Playing Blues | |
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| Slow tempo | |
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| Medium tempo | |
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| Fast tempo | |
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| Filling in ... or not | |
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| Understanding Blues Song Structure | |
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| Rallying Around R&B and Funk | |
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| Playing R&B Grooves | |
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| Keeping time | |
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| Adding ghost notes | |
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| Opening and closing the hi-hat | |
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| Getting Funky: Exploring Funk Drumming | |
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| Incorporating syncopation | |
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| Syncopating the snare drum beats | |
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| Including ghost notes | |
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| Opening and closing the hi-hat | |
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| Swinging into Jazz | |
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| Getting Into the Swing of It | |
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| Varying the tempo | |
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| Tackling different textures | |
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| Adding to the beat | |
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| Expanding Your Horizons | |
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| Riding the cymbal | |
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| Adding accents | |
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| Incorporating the snare drum | |
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| Including the bass drum | |
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| Mixing up your accents | |
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| Telling Your Story: Soloing | |
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| Making two-bar phrases | |
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| Creating four-bar phrases | |
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| Blending Styles: Jazz-Fusion | |
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| Playing Fusion Rhythms | |
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| Knowing that more (not less) is more | |
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| Forgetting swing (at least for now) | |
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| Dealing with odd meter | |
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| Looking at Latin and Caribbean Styles | |
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| Building On Traditions | |
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| Playing Afro-Cuban Rhythms | |
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| Bolero | |
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| Cha-cha | |
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| Mambo | |
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| Nanigo | |
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| Playing Brazilian Rhythms | |
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| Samba | |
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| Bossa nova | |
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| Playing Caribbean Rhythms | |
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| Reggae | |
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| Calypso | |
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| Filling It Out | |
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| Ratcheting up Your Rock Drumming | |
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| Building on a Solid Foundation | |
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| Exploring Some Great Drummers and Their Grooves | |
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| Peeking into the pop drumming of Kenny Aronoff | |
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| Checking out punk's Travis Barker | |
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| Catching up with the jazz influence of Carter Beauford | |
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| Discovering rock legend John Bonham | |
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| Looking at Dave Grohl's alternative drumming | |
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| Jamming with a drummer's drummer: Jeff Porcaro | |
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| Examining Spug's heavy rock style | |
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| Finding Your Own Inspiration | |
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| Dressing up Your Drumset Skills | |
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| Getting Into the Groove | |
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| Getting the Feel of the Music | |
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| Playing Musically | |
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| Understanding song structure | |
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| Fitting your playing style to the song | |
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| Choosing the Perfect Rhythm | |
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| Getting hints from other musicians | |
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| Using the music as a guide | |
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| Adding Your Personality | |
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| Choosing the bass drum part | |
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| Selecting the snare drum part | |
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| Picking the cymbals | |
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| Electing embellishments | |
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| Expressing Yourself with Fills and Licks | |
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| Enhancing Your Drumming with Licks | |
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| Increasing Your Impact with Fills | |
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| Marking the phrase | |
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| Supporting dynamic variation | |
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| Playing Some Fills - From One Beat to Four | |
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| Creating Your Own Fills | |
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| Fitting the musical situation | |
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| Syncopating | |
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| Rolling | |
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| Flying Solo | |
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| Soloing Basics | |
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| Keeping time | |
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| Playing musically | |
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| Thinking melodically | |
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| Pushing the limits | |
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| Pounding Out the Beat: Traditional Drums and Percussion | |
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| Handling Hand Drums | |
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| Embracing the Variety in Drums | |
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| Beating the Bongos | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Carrying On with the Congas | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Discovering the Djembe | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Uncovering the Udu | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Deciphering the Doumbek | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Touting the Tar | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Tapping the Power of the Tambourine/Riq | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Partying with the Pandeiro | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Singling Out Stick-Played Drums | |
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| Bopping to the Bodhran | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Detailing the Djun Djuns | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Rubbing the Cuica | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Striking the Surdo | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Rapping the Repanique | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Tapping the Tamborim | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Tinkering with the Timbales | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Exploring Other Percussion Instruments | |
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| Ringing the Agogo Bells | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Twisting and Shaking the Afuche/Cabasa | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Keying in to the Clave | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Clanging the Cowbell | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Scraping the Guiro | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Movin' to the Maracas | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Experimenting with Shakers | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Tapping the Triangle | |
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| Playing position | |
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| Understanding the rhythms | |
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| Jamming with World Rhythms | |
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| Demystifying Polyrhythms | |
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| It Takes a Village: Using More Rhythms for Better Sound | |
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| The Rhythm Nations: Playing Well with Others | |
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| Exploring African polyrhythms | |
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| Checking out Cuban polyrhythms | |
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| Banging out Brazilian polyrhythms | |
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| Choosing, Tuning, and Caring for Your Drums | |
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| Decision Time: Selecting a Drum of Your Own | |
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| Choosing a Drumset | |
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| The drums | |
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| Other hardware you have to buy separately | |
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| The cymbals | |
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| The sticks | |
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| Choosing a Traditional Drum | |
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| Natural or synthetic drumheads | |
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| Shell type | |
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| Hardware style | |
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| Branching Out: The Extras | |
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| Keeping time with the metronome | |
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| Carrying it all in cases | |
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| Knowing Where to Find Drums | |
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| Tuning and Maintaining Your Drums | |
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| Checking Out Tuning Basics | |
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| Tuning a drum with lugs | |
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| Tuning a drum with a rope system | |
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| Tuning the untunable | |
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| Choosing and Replacing Heads | |
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| Knowing when heads need replacing | |
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| Choosing replacement heads | |
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| Replacing your heads | |
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| Caring for Your Drums | |
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| Handling hardware | |
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| Cleaning cymbals | |
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| Storing and transporting safely | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Ways to Expand Your Drumming Horizons | |
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| Checking out Classes | |
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| Visiting Clinics | |
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| Attending Workshops | |
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| Exploring Drum Circles and Jams | |
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| Perusing Books and Videos | |
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| Getting Online | |
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| Reading Magazines | |
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| Joining a Band | |
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| Forming Your Own Band | |
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| Playing Open Stage | |
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| Ten Tips for Finding a Drum Instructor | |
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| Test Driving a Teacher | |
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| Knowing Where to Look | |
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| Understanding the Costs Involved | |
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| Exploring a Teacher's Playing Style | |
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| Gauging a Teacher's Willingness to Teach to Your Interests | |
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| Starting Where You Are | |
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| Getting a Sense of History | |
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| Honoring Yourself | |
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| Understanding Expectations | |
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| Knowing When to Move On | |
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| How to Use the CD | |
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| Relating the Text to the CD | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Audio CD players | |
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| Computer CD-ROM drives | |
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| Using the CD with Microsoft Windows | |
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| Using the CD with Mac OS | |
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| What You'll Find on the CD | |
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| CD audio tracks | |
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| Digital music | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Index | |