Drumming the Easy Way!: Beginner Drum Method for Students and Teachers | Tom Hapke | Drum Set Lesson Book with Exercises, Grooves, Fills, and Solos for Learning to Read and Play Drums

Allow me to start by saying I've always loved percussion. Since I was small I've had the fire in my veins to play the drums. I started off with the most budget set available - aside from taking the Christoph Schneider route of building your own set out of trash cans - and tooling around with no real direction or formal instruction.I bought this book and began saving my pennies, and started from the most basic 4/4 quarter-note rhythyms and fills practicing everything from cover to cover until I felt I had absolute mastery of the subject.Little by little my drumming has improved - and this book makes it simple to learn the most basic pop, rock and their various sub-genres of drumming. Now, my sticking is impeccible and my time-keeping is darn-near perfect.After nearly a year of practice and saving I managed to afford a Roland TD-4K series v-drum (electronic) set which is absolutely astounding in terms of playability and sound quality.I highly recommend this book to any aspiring newbie drummers - practice regularly, make a 'set-list' of songs you want to learn and various new rudiments, fills, solos etc that you want to learn and stick to it.

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I went from never touching an instrument in my life to bring able to play dream on in nine days with this book.

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