Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set

By Rick Considine

(Berklee Press). Morph those boring 26 standard rudiments you learned into mind-blowing grooves, fills and solos! All that rhythmic sophistication you hear from great drummers can easily be broken... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876390092
• ISBN13: 9780876390092
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.0" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent material - NOT for beginners

I bought this book based on the recommendations here. It's clearly a book I will be returning to soon and offers a wealth of ideas for the application of rudiments across the drum set. A little warning is due though...this book provides a list of the 26 rudiments, but then dives head first into some very challenging exercises. It's a little above my pay grade for now - and I'm not really a beginner. Listening to the CD could actually be discouraging, because Rick's tempos are basically obscene - so fast in fact, that it's nearly impossible to read the music and listen at the same time for comprehension. That being said, these exercises are clearly worth the effort and seem to do a great job of emphasizing rudiments and variations you're likely to be weak in - such as reverse paradiddles, double strokes played in triplet feel, off accents etc. My overall feeling is that this is no book for beginners, but contains a wealth of insight for really rounding out your technique - recommended!

Rick is the man

I took from Rick while I attended Berklee - he is the man...period. His classes/lessons were based on this book (he was writing it while I attended) and it really gives you the tools you need to become your own person behind the kit. This will make you a better player with a larger vocabulary. I am always trying to come up with new ways to apply the rudiments. Now - you can have Rick's class without the Berklee tuition - however, Rick's humor is worth the price of the credit hour alone. He sets you straight...and this book will set you straight too.

Creative Use of Rudiments for Drumset

Its a great book with a low price that gives you lots of ideas on how the standard drum rudiments can be applied to the drumset. The basic rudiments are all listed here of course, and then each one is broken down into grooves and moves that are applied to the whole drumset. For example, it shows you how to take the double stroke roll and open it up on all the tom-toms and not just the snare drum. It wont hurt to check it out and have it in your library, as I am sure I learnt a few new things from it.

Really good!

I like this book Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set. After practicing some of these grooves, it has tightened up my playing. I've been playing for several years and my biggest weakness is drum fills. These grooves based on the drum rudiments gave me a library of drum fills to play when the music calls for it. The most significant thing this book offers is that not only does it teach you the groove but it teaches you how to play them in time making them sound musical thereby tightening up your sound on the drums. In order to fully appreciate what the book has to offer, you really have to practice these grooves until they become second nature to you. Once I got the grooves down, it just simply made my drum playing sound more mature. Thanks, Rick Considine, for your contribution to the drum world of music.

Are you ready?

This book initiates the wonders of many drummers. Not only will you have the ability to pick apart the players of today upon the completion of this book, but you will be able to expand your abilities as a drummer. Taking the 26 rudiments that we all have pounded into our heads, and expressing them throughout the kit, helps us percussionists to open new doors stylistically, and rudimentally. This form of drumming has been studied for countless years, but recently being detailed in this book. For anyone who wishes to widen their repertoire or coodination abilities on the kit, you need this book. It is what you've been waiting for.