The Everything Drums Book: From Tuning and Timing to Fills and Solos-All You Need to Keep the Beat [With CD]

by Eric Starr

Generations of people have grown up listening to the sounds of such talented drummers as Mickey Hart, Dave Grohl, Keith Moon, and Stewart Copeland. For decades, the excitement of being in a band and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580628869
• ISBN13: 9781580628860
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great quality

It was a great book and quality looked brand new.

"Everything" You Need to Know to...

This book was very useful and comprehensive for setting up and playing drums. It had been a bit too many years since I last played. This was a great refresher and brought me up to speed

Thank You Eric Starr! This Book Will Be My Drum Bible!

I want to add my voice to those who praise this book. I played professionally as a road musician for many years (drummer). Then I followed another path and put down my sticks for over twenty years. Fortunately, when I decided to pick my sticks up again, I found this book at the local library. What a great comfort to have Mr. Starr's insights on the basic elements of playing drums. Many of the things he covers, I knew before picking up his book. Still, there are many things in the book that I never got under my belt the first time around because I was too busy playing. As a much older student of the instrument this time around, I find myself reveling in the details missed before. Through this book, I am teaching myself to read music. It's not that I didn't know how to read before but to sight read is a far different story. I intend to patiently learn how to read like the pros as time has taught me that time is the one thing we do have, at least until we run out of it. This book is great for the beginner to intermediate levels (I count myself as the latter in most of the things covered though the real secrets of tuning a snare drum is still a revelation to me). Seriously, if you have any interest in playing this instrument seriously, pick up this book. I bought my own copy because I expect to refer to it for a long time. It is written so that you feel as though Mr. Starr is in your corner and you are not going to go through this learning process alone. That my friends, is a very comforting feeling, even for a guy who is just picking it up again after these long years of estrangement.

Wonderful!

This book is absolutely astonishing! I recently got the urge to learn drumming, but I live in a rather isolated location. I was lucky enough to find myself a teacher - unfortunately, he changed jobs and I was forced to fend for myself after only two "real" drum lessons. I spent half a paycheck on various teach-yourself books, and this book was by FAR the best investment of them all. Everything Drums is perfect for the complete beginner - it includes all the standard topics you'd expect (how to buy drums and what to do if you can't, how to hold a stick, how to put your kit together, how to hit the drum with the stick, ad infinitum) in a very clear, plain-english manner. The author doesn't assume the book is something you'll only use in between lessons - with a real life instructor to clarify - but rather treats it as a complete course for someone who's never even touched a drumstick before in his or her life. It even includes ways to evaluate your own progress - something that I personally feel is very, very hard to do without an instuctor. Very highly recommended!

Good and comprehensive

I really like this book. Eric started from the beginning (even the stick-holding is nicely described) and got step-by-step to more complicated grooves and rhythms. CD exemplares are pretty well played (sometimes the tempo is a bit too fast). The book contains very good exercises for rookies and for advanced players too. I recommend this as a comprehensive book on drumming.

great for beginners and intermediates; teen or adult

I gave this to my friend's teenage daughter who is in the drum line in High School and she and her mother loved it!