The 16th note section is more valuable- more real-music like- than the 16th note sections in some other books. Takes Reed’s somewhat annoying convention of including quarter notes on the bass drum a step further by including quarter notes on the bass drum and the hihat throughout. Includes exercises of “equivalent” rhythms- the same rhythm (ignoring durations) is written using ties, dotted notes, and rests. Four measure and longer exercises, using quarter notes, 8th notes, triplets, and 16th notes. Includes a list of interpretive methods for application on the drums. Syncopated Rhythms for the Contemporary Drummer by Chuck Kerrigan.
Maybe the best companion volume of these, and a great value. Covers roughly the same territory as Syncopation, but with a number of rhythms Reed left out. Bradfield is a teacher in Pennsylvania who has self-published this book and two accompanying volumes of interpretive methods. Much of it is extremely difficult, in changing or */16 meters, which are frankly of limited value to me.īy Martin Bradfield. There are several pages suitable for Syncopation-type applications, and quite a few more involving triplets and 16ths. A thick book dealing with a wide variety of odd meters. Odd Time Reading Text by Louis Bellson and Gil Breines. I haven’t devised much in the way of practice methods adapted to the strengths of this book.
I use it primarily for its “10 Syncopated Exercises”, which are long exercises similar to the ones in Reed. I find the majority of it a little too difficult for daily use- either Bellson is going way outside what is conventional in order to challenge the user, or maybe he is including things more likely to be encountered by horns. Modern Reading Text in 4/4 by Louis Bellson. It does have its limitations, which caused me to look into sources for similar materials. Or Das Kapital, Origin of Species, whatever you like. As I alluded to in the Joe Cusatis book post, I’m a big advocate of the interpreting-a-melody-line approach to practice, for which Syncopation is basically the Bible. For many years Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer (better known as just “Syncopation”) by Ted Reed was virtually the only drum book I used.
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