Knack Drums for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises in musical notation.
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Carmine Appice's professional accolades include being the drummer for some of the most internationally renowned rock bands in history, beginning with Vanilla Fudge. His writing credentials include two of Rod Stewart's major hits. He has been awarded Modern Drummer magazine Editor's Achievement Award, received the Best Rock Drummer Award from Sabian Cymbals, received the L.A. Lifetime Achievement Award, and been inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk. His classic book Realistic Rock is one of the best-selling drum books of all time.
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Knack Drums for Everyone with CD
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Drums
Acoustic Drums
Drum Stand, Key, and More
Parts of a Snare Drum
Parts of the Bass Drum
Tom Tom (Rack Tom)
Floor Tom Tom
Chapter 2: Equipment
Hardware, Plus
Snare Drum Stands
Seats and Thrones
The Hi Hat Stand
Care of the Drums
Cases and Covers
Chapter 3: Types of Drum Sets
Electronic
Wood Drums ? The Best
Different Woods for Drums
Drum Set Configurations
Double Bass Drum Kits
Getting Your First Kit
Chapter 4: Tuning and Heads
Tuning the Drums/Drum Heads
Changing the Snare Bottom Head
What Type of Drum Heads to Use
What Notes to Tune to
The Drum Tool Kit
Muffling Drums
Chapter 5: Drum Sticks
Sticks
Practice Sticks
The Carmine Sticks
Choosing Sticks
Mallets and Brushes?Changing the Drum Sounds
Stick Bags
Chapter 6: Pedals
Drum Pedals
Beaters
Pedal Adjustments
Double Pedals for the Bass Drum
Foot Positions for Pedal Playing
The Metronome
Chapter 7: Cymbals and Hi Hats
Choosing Cymbals
Hi Hat Cymbals
Cymbal Packs
Cymbal Short Sounds
Wild Cymbals
Choosing a Cymbal Setup
Chapter 8: Drum Theory
Music Theory for Drums
Music "Sign Language"
Counting Notes
Eighth Notes
Sixteenth Notes with Eighth Notes
Note Combinations
Chapter 9: Practice
The Drum Practice Pad
Drumhead and Foot Practice Pads
Practice Pad Drum Sets
Muffling Drums for Practice
Mountable Drum Pads
Practice, Practice, Practice
Chapter 10: Stick Handling
Holding the Sticks
Traditional Grip / Left Hand / Thumbs Up Match
The Carmine Grip
Exercises for the Hands
A New Time Signature
Mixed Hand/Foot Practice
Chapter 11: Developing Your Hands
Right/Left Hand Four-Bar Phrases
Exercise for Right/Left Hand
Dynamics
Simple Reading of Quarter Notes
More Simple Reading
Simple Reading of Eighth Notes
Chapter 12: Quarters, Eighths, and Beyond
Eighth Note Twelve-Bar Exercises
Eighth Note and Rests
Eighth Notes and Rests, Plus
Sixteenth Notes and Quarter Notes
Sixteenth Notes and Quarter Notes, Plus
Sixteenth and Quarter Notes, and Eighth Rests
Chapter 13: Sixteenths, Eighths, and Beyond
Sixteenths and Eighth Notes, Rests
Sixteenths and Eighth Rests, The Next Level
Combo Sixteenths/Eighths/Rests
Dotted Eighths and Sixteenths, Rests
More Dotted Eighths and Sixteenths
Review Exercises, First and Second Endings
Chapter 14: Playing Eighth Note Triplets
Triplets, Eighth Notes
Triplets, The Next Level
Sixteenth Notes and Triplets
Review Up To Triplets
Sixteenth Note Triplets
More Sixteenth Note Triplets
Chapter 15: High Level Triplets
Eighth Note and Sixteenth Note Triplets
Two-Triplet Twelve-Bar Exercises
Accented Eighth Note Triplets
More Accented Triplets
Accented Eighth Note Triplets, The Next Level
Twelve-Bar Accented Eighth Note Triplets
Chapter 16: Fun Rudiments
Rudimental Hand Workout
3 Stroke Ruff
4 Stroke Ruff
5 Stroke Ruff
5 Stroke Roll-Ruff Combo
Paradiddles and Mixed Stickings
Chapter 17: Playing a Rock Groove
3 Line Playing-Rock Quarters
3 Line Quarters and Eighths
Quarters and Eighths with Rests
Review 3 Line Quarters-Eighths-Rests
Sixteenths and Eighths
More Sixteenths and Eighths
Chapter 18: Groovin'
Dotted Eighths and Sixteenths
More Dotted Eighths and Sixteenths
Drum Fill Vocabulary
Advanced Sixteenth
"Hot Legs" ? Rod Stewart
"Crazy in Love" ? Beyonce
Chapter 19: Songs
"Revolution" ? The Beatles
"Harder to Breathe" ? Maroon 5
"Hey Ya" ? Outkast
"Hungry Heart"
"Honky Tonk Woman" -- Rolling Stones
"Paper Planes" ? Slum Dog Millionaire
Chapter 20: Resources
Drums
Cymbals
Sticks
Drum Heads
Schools
Books, Magazines, Web Sites