Walker-World Jazz Drumming (w/CD)

Mark Walker's new book - World Jazz Drumming will hlep you enrich your drumming with world rhythms and sounds! World music presents many learning opportunities and challenges, especially for drums and percussion. Learning grooves from the Caribbean and South America will make you a more complete musician, and give you more ideas for creating your own sound and solos.
The accompanying CD includes groove examples and play-along tracks of Mark Walker's original music, featuring guest artists such as Paquito D'Rivera!

You will learn to:

* Adapt traditional percussion patterns to the drum set

* Play dozens of Caribbean and South American grooves with knowledge and swing

* Orchestrate each groove for different situations

* Perform advanced concepts, such as chart reading, transitions and independence

* Be prepared for many creative musical situations, through knowledge of more styles and greater mastery of drumming fundamentals





Mark Walker is a multiple-Grammy Award winning artist, who is currently a member of Oregon and the Pacquito D'Rivera Quintet. He is a professor of percussion at Berklee College of Music.