Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer's Guide to Playing Backbeats on 1 & 3

By Paul Wertico

Habits and traditions are often hard to change, but discovering new and creative ways of rearranging and rethinking established norms is what distinguishes a great drummer and provides endless challenge and possibilities. Turn the Beat Around breaks decades-old routine by examining backbeats" in a whole new light, asking the questions: "Why are backbeats always played on beats 2 & 4?" and "What about playing them on beats 1 & 3?" By delving into this inquiry, Paul Wertico provides drummers with innovative ways of expanding groove vocabulary, solidifying time, and mastering coordination and limb independence. Wertico has even coined a new word for these types of reversed beats---frontbeats."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147061507X
• ISBN13: 9781470615079
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 11.9" x 8.9"