Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426868 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

This book is excellent!
This book and accompanying CD are essential to any real drummer. These rhythms are the real deal and if you can learn to play them, you will have a great foundation to play with anyone (Afro, Latin, Jazz, etc.). Even if you are NOT a trap drummer but play traditional african music, this book gives you the traditional fokloric ensemble set up with examples on the CD. I like that these traditional ensemble examples on the CD have each instrument/part come in announced succesion against the bell. I used to live in Ghana playing drums and I really learned a lot from this book. It has something for everyone, no matter what your skill level! OK enough gushing! Buy it you won't regret it!

A quote from Billy Martin of Medenski Martin & Wood...
My name is Dan Thress and I am the editor of this book. I would like to post this quote from drummer, Billy Martin of the group, Medenski Martin & Wood from an interview in Modern Drummer Magazine (September 98). "I highly recommend Royal Hartigan's book West African Rhythms for Drumset. I feel that if drummers would check out some of the patterns in this book they'd really get a lot out of it. What's great about it is you're playing some traditional rhythms that are adapted for drumset, which I think is important because they've been tried and tested over hundreds of years. It's good for coordination, and these rhythms are musical, they're not just technical exercises. And Hartigan talks a little bit about the history. I think it's one of the best books our on drumset stuff."