Top 10 Best Drum Books

of November 2024
1
Best ChoiceBest Choice
Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer (Ted Reed Publications)
Alfred Music
Alfred Music
10
Exceptional
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2
Best ValueBest Value
The Best Beginner Drum Book
9.9
Exceptional
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3
Drum Set 365: 52 Weeks of Daily Drum ExercisesMaster Essential Drum Patterns,
9.8
Exceptional
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4
4-Way Coordination: A Method Book for the Development of Complete Independence
Alfred Music
Alfred Music
9.7
Exceptional
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5
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
9.6
Exceptional
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6
1001 Drum Grooves: The Complete Resource for Every Drummer
Cherry Lane Music Company
Cherry Lane Music Company
9.5
Excellent
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7
Alfred's Drum Method, Bk 1: The Most Comprehensive Beginning Snare Drum Method
Alfred Music
Alfred Music
9.4
Excellent
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8
Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer
Alfred Music
Alfred Music
9.3
Excellent
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9
Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method Book/Online Audio
Modern Drummer
Modern Drummer
9.2
Excellent
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10
First 50 Songs You Should Play on Drums
Hal Leonard
Hal Leonard
9.1
Excellent
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Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer (Ted Reed Publications)

Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993. Progressive Steps to Syncopation is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, these drum lessons have earned their place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This instructional book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.

The Best Beginner Drum Book

Drum Set 365: 52 Weeks of Daily Drum ExercisesMaster Essential Drum Patterns, Beats, Grooves, and Fills

4-Way Coordination: A Method Book for the Development of Complete Independence on the Drum Set

4-Way Coordination Book. This method book by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine helps drummers develop complete independence on the drum set. The drum exercises focus on hi-hat, bass and snare control. 56 pages. This method book by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine helps drummers develop complete independence on the drum set.

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

1001 Drum Grooves: The Complete Resource for Every Drummer

ISBN 1575604191. Size 9W x 12L. 112 pages. Author Steve Mansfield presents rock and funk grooves, blues and jazz grooves, ethnic grooves, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean grooves, and much more. 1001 Drum Grooves presents more than a thousand drumset beats played in a variety of musical styles, past and present.

Alfred's Drum Method, Bk 1: The Most Comprehensive Beginning Snare Drum Method Ever!

Book covers. Rudimentary studies. Roll studies. Contest solos. Bass drum and cymbal technique.

Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. It is the ideal book for improving control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination, with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. Includes hundreds of basic to advanced-level rhythms. George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named the book one of the top 25 books of all-time.

Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method Book/Online Audio

First 50 Songs You Should Play on Drums

Series Drum Book Format Softcover Artist Various Inventory HL 00175795 ISBN 9781495070501 UPC 888680631994 Width 9.0 Length 11.0 192 pages. If you're new to the drums, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This one-of-a-kind collection provides an accessible combo of drum notation and kit legends for the most popular songs drummers like to play from artists like the Beatles, Nirvana, U2 and Metallica. Songs include American Idiot Beast of Burden Clocks Free Fallin' Give It Away Hurts So Good La Grange My Generation Peg Shake It Off Smells like Teen Spirit Under Pressure Walk This Way Wipe Out You Really Got Me and more. If you're new to the drums, you are probably eager to learn some songs.
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