Looking for a way to improve your playing? Stuck in a rut with your practice routine? Here's an excellent way to get a whole new perspective and improve your musicianship too! Crosstraining in percussion means applying the rhythms and techniques, stickings and phrasing that you're already familiar with to new instruments you wish to learn. If you are a drummer who wants to learn to solo, what better way than to be able to play the song itself, melodically, on another instrument that's played with your drummer's muscles? And you mallet players out there can play more concise, rhythmically accurate solos, if you can employ the precision required to play Funk, Rudimental, or Fusion drums! Crosstraining enables the multi-faceted percussionist develop his/her skills by applying a specific rhythm or technique, one at a time, to all the instruments in their collection. The book includes online audio of material to learn from and practice with. Includes access to online audio.

Acknowledgements  
Dedication  
About the Author  
Foreword  
Crosstraining: The Concept  
The Instruments  

PART 1 : The Mozambique 
Mozambique on Drumset: Latin Application  
Linear Patterns  
Linear Fill and Fusion Groove 
Linear Drum Fills 
Mozambique Applied to Percussion  
Congas  
2 Congas 
Frame Drum and Tambourine  
Mallet Instruments  
Mozambique on Marimba  

PART 2: The Baiao 

Drumset  
The Baiao on Drumset  
Groove – Related Baiao Exercises 
Baiao Feet (with th notes overlayed on snare drum) 
2nd Line Feel with the Baiao 
Baiao Feet (with “Second Line” th notes on snare drum) 
Baiao Drum Fills  
Baiao Groove #2  
Percussion 
Congas  
Congas — 2 Drums  
Baiao on the Doumbek 
Baiao on the Marimba  
Broken Chords  


PART 3: Funk 
Drumset and Large Frame Drum  
Drumset and Tambourine 
Drumset and Doumbek 
 
PART 4: Triple Meter Rhythms 

Triple Meter Rhythms: Drumset and Large Frame Drum  

PART 5: World Beat Rhythms 

The Guaguanco: Drumset and Congas  
The Samba: Drumset and Congas  
The Merengue: Drumset and Doumbek 
The Baladi: Drumset and Doumbek  

PART 6: Rudiments and Rudimental Solos 

Rudiments and Rudimental Solos: Snare Drum, Drumset, Congas, Doumbek, Small & Large Frame Drums, 
and Tambourine  
Flams: Snare Drum, Drumset, Congas, Doumbek, and Frame Drum 
Ruffs and Drags  
Ruffs: Snare Drum, Drumset, and Small Frame Drum  
The Single Drag: Snare Drum, Drumset, Doumbek, and Small Frame Drum  
The Four-Stroke Ruff: Snare Drum, Drumset, Small Frame Drum, and Tambourine  
Single Paradiddle: Snare Drum, Drumset, and Small Frame Drum  
Double Paradiddle: Snare Drum, Drumset, and Large Frame Drum  
3 Camps: Rudimental Drum Solo  
Rolling in Rhythm: Rudimental Solo on Snare Drum, Drumset, Small Frame Drum, and Large Frame Drum  

PART 7: Loops for Practicing 

How to Use the Loops  
Looped Grooves: Disc   
Looped Grooves: Disc   
In Conclusion  
CD Track Information