Gold-Phrasing: Advanced Rudiments for Creative Drumming (Audio / Video Access Included)

Phrasing: Advanced Rudiments for Creative Drumming
by Russ Gold

Develop your creativity and command of the drum set. Phrasing will help you expand your vocabulary using standard rudiments and exciting rhythmic concepts, making your playing more conversational, dynamic, and focused. You'll first learn a core set of essential phrases that are the basis for all the exercises. Then, each of the fifty lessons applies rudiments and innovative stickings to the phrases to explode the rhythmic potential of standard practice routines. This process will give you a comprehensive drum set vocabulary that you can bring to all groove styles. Fifty-two minutes of video demonstrations and audio play-along tracks are accessible online for download or streaming, using the unique code inside this book.

You'll learn to:

Translate standard rudiments into rhythmic phrases

Develop a vocabulary of essential phrases, which then serve as the basis for groove patterns, fills, and solos

Play with greater facility and power by applying sticking concepts

Translate these rhythms to a variety of grooves, including jazz, funk, and Latin

Speak easily and freely on the kit, expressing yourself with spontaneity and confidence

Russ Gold has performed and toured internationally with artists such as Gary Lyons, Johnny Colla, Seth Justman, Full Circle, Sam Rivers, George Coleman, Dave Douglas, and Howard Johnson. He toured internationally, performing with jazz, rock, fusion, and theater groups including acclaimed musicals Wicked, Jersey Boys, and Rent. Russ has earned endorsements of Sabian cymbals, Pro-Mark sticks, Fishman transducers, and Kurzweil synthesizers. He is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music.

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