Blues Drums, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, contains over 250 examples of blues drum patterns and technique-building exercises! Subjects covered in this book are: The History of Blues Drumming; Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound; Exercises for Development of Technique (Sticking and foot patterns specific to playing blues); Blues Shuffles & Swing Beats, Slow Blues, Ballads and the Triplet Groove (12/8 Time); Blues Rhumba, Calypso Beats and Samba Feel; Two-Beat/Cut Time; Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats; New Orleans, Soul and Funk Influences; and Build-ups & Fills.

This book is accompanied by an online audio recording of all examples played on the drums with the backing of the School of the Blues All-Star Band. It is recommended that you also purchase Blues Drums Play-Along Trax to have full-length play-along trax for you to apply what you learn in this book. Includes access to online audio.

Choosing Your Instrument and Getting Your Sound
 Basic Principles of Music

Subdivision Chart & Notation Key

Exercises for Development of Technique

Duple Sticking Patterns
Triplet Sticking Patterns
Duple and Triplet Foot Patterns
Ride Pattern Exercises
Swing & Shuffle Ride Pattern Played on Snare Drums
Rudiments Applied to Shuffle Sticking
The Flam and Flam Tap
Eighth Note Accent Exercises
Triplet Accent Exercises

Blues Shuffles & Swing Beats

Blues Shuffle - Brushes Focus
Blues Shuffle - Sticks Focus
Blues Shuffle - Hi-Hat Focus
Blues Shuffle - Bass Drum Focus
Jazz Shuffle
Backward Shuffle
Shuffle with Swing Ride/Snare

Slow Blues, Ballads and the Triplet Groove (12/8 Time)

 

Blues Rhumba, Calypso Beats and Samba Feel

Sticking Patterns for Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats
Foot Patterns for Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats
Blues Rhumba & Calypso Beats
Blues Bossa Nova
Something Bluesy, But Not Swing
Changing from a Latin Groove to a Shuffle/Swing Groove

Two Beat/Cut Time

Early Rock 'n' Roll and Surf Beats

Early Rock 'n' Roll
Surf Beat

New Orleans, Soul and Funk Influences

Build-ups & Fills

Build-ups
Shuffle & Swing Drum Fills
Slow Blues & 12/8 Feel Drum Fills
Rhumba, Calypso & Latin Drum Fills
Two-Beat Drum Fills
Early Rock 'n' Roll & Surf Beat Drum Fills
New Orleans, Funk & Soul Drum Fills