Volume 2
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Part 9 - Three Toms and Rolls
This section contains the first exercises containing snare drum rolls. After looking at rolls we then add a third tom tom to the drum kit before looking at two beat fills and then covering how multiple bars rest are notated. We then look at some double strokes around the kit before finishing up as usual with a study.
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9.1 - Snare Drum Rolls
9.2 - Three Toms
9.3 - Two Beat Fills
9.4 - Multi-Bar Rests
9.5 - Double Stroke around the Kit
9.6 - Bass Drum and Snare Drum
9.6 - Study
Part 10 - Ride Cymbal and Cut Common
This part introduces the ride cymbal to the drum kit, then goes on to look at a new rhythmical figure, the dotted quaver-semiquaver. We then look at the wood block before moving on to ruffs and cut common time.
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10.1 - Ride Cymbal
10.2 - Dotted Quaver-Semiquaver
10.3 - Forte-Piano
10.4 - Wood Block
10.5 - Ruff
10.6 - Cut Common Time
10.6 - Study
Part 11 - Swing Rhythms
This part contains our first look at the swing rhythm before moving onto groups of two semiquavers. We then look at the cowbell and five stroke roll, and then move onto playing dotted quaver-semiquaver rhythms around the drum kit. It is sometimes necessary to have gradual tempo changes in a piece of music, and the notation for this is covered next. Finally, we look at a shorthand notation for writing quavers and semiquavers.
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11.1 - Swing Rhythms
11.2 - Groups of Two Semiquavers
11.3 - Cowbell
11.4 - Five Stroke Roll
11.5 - Dotted Quaver-Semiquaver On Toms
11.6 - Speeding up and Slowing Down
11.7 - Slash Shorthand Notation
11.8 - Study
Part 12 - Open Hi Hat
The part looks at opening and closing the hi hat in rock music, and then goes on to introduce another new rhythmical figure. We look at the shuffle rhythm before moving on to temple blocks and finally looking at single beat rock rhythms fills. We end the part with a look at the double paradiddle rudiment.
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12.1 - Open and Close Hi Hat
12.2 - Semiquaver-Quaver-Semiquaver
12.3 - Shuffle
12.4 - Temple Blocks
12.5 - One Beat Rock Fills
12.6 - Double Paradiddle
12.7 - Study
Part 13 - Swing Feel and Cabasa
This part looks at the way swing music changes depending on what kind of feel there is to the music being played along to. It then looks at the rumba, followed by some ad lib drum fills in rock music. We then look at the cabasa and seven stroke roll before looking at fills in swing music.
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13.1 - Triplet Feel Swing
13.2 - Rumba
13.3 - Ad Lib Rock Fills
13.4 - Cabasa
13.5 - Seven Stroke Roll
13.6 - Four Beat Swing Fills
13.7 - Study
Part 14 - 12/8 Time
This part is mostly written in 12/8 time, and covers snare drum, snare drum and bass drum, and then kit rhythms in that time signature. It then goes on to look at introducing semiquavers into the rythms before finishing up with a study.
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14.1 - Snare Drum
14.2 - Snare Drum and Bass Drum
14.3 - Kit
14.4 - Semiquaver Rhythms
14.5 - Study
Part 15 - Hi Hat with Foot
This section looks at playing the hi hat with the foot (without hitting it with a stick) and then goes on to look at the nine stroke roll, and the bossa nova rhythm. We then look at the shaker before moving on to some exercises involving the snare drum and bass drum together, including some snare drum rolls.
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15.1 - Hi Hat with Foot
15.2 - Nine Stroke Roll
15.3 - Bossa Nova
15.4 - Shaker
15.5 - Rolls and Bass Drum
15.6 - Study
Part 16 - Crotchet Rock and Bongoes
This part first looks at kit rhythms where the hi hat plays only crotchets, and then moves onto various exercises involving snare drum and bass drum. We then look at semiquaver triplets before moving onto bongoes and looking at playing the hi hat with the foot during rock rhythms.
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