Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #215319 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From the Back Cover
If you are a beginning drummer, this guide will help you learn all the basics of the instrument. You will find information about drum purchasing and maintenance, instructions about the snare drum fundamentals of sticking, syncopation, and rolls, and a presentation of the 26 rudiments that every drummer must learn.

Customer Reviews

This book has it all
As a "learning" drummer I've seen a lot of books and audio guides that spoon feed you little bits, or else treat you like a drummer so accomplished that you didn't need to buy the book. But this book is different - it's virtually a bible. From buying drums to playing them, it has a lot of good information plus good examples of things to listen to. But I think it's big strength is that it develops your technique, reading etc. without throwing you in at the deep end. Too many drum books try to get you to play a whole 5-piece kit by page 4, where this develops you piece by piece.

I wanted more practice!
This is a nice book on how to learn playing drumset. What was wrong is that Michael Miller, despite his interest in old drummers spend too much time talking about them. There are lots of pages which will tell you about the wonderful life they had, but if you are a first step drummer and willing to learn, you'll find booring reading all these words about them. He also gives a list of soundtracks played by the best drummers in the world which may be nice to listen too, but if you are just starting, you'll find them very frustrating, and you'll think that you won't be able to play in the same way they do. The practical parts of the book are very exaustive, and they proceede very slowly making you confident with the exercise which is coming next. If a could suggest something is to take rid of the biography pages and put more exercises.