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Developing Drum Fills and Solos with Theme and Variations

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This book will help drummers learn how to play fills confidently while using the concept of reading figures and interpreting those figures into melodic sounding drum fills.  The system in this book will help the drummer start to develop and recognize their own style as well.  This system can be used in any style of music, rock, jazz, latin or funk.  In the back of the book is a page of manuscript to start writing down you own your own ideas.  Or you can purchase the manuscript book from this website.

Introduction To Music Theory and Harmony

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The objective of this book is to provide a basic foundation and understanding of music theory and harmony for the beginning student of general music, Piano, guitar bass guitar or mallet student.  Or the drum student who wants to learn more about what’s happening musically on the other side of the cymbals. This book will provide the basics of the various clef signs used in music, scale degree names and numbers, major, minor and blues scales as well as other modes and scales.  It will also cover key signatures as well as several types of chords and how they are constructed.  Every section builds off the information in the previous section and each section has a homework assignment associated with it.  It is advised that after reading a section the homework assignment referenced at the end of the chapter should completed and checked to make sure the student has a complete understanding of the material just covered before going on to the next section.

10 Stave Manuscript Book

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This is a 10 stave manuscript book. This provides a little more space between the staves. This manuscript book is good for writing music theory, piano music, mallet and tympani music or any other musical ideas you have.  The extra space between the stave in this manuscript book works well for writing Drumset charts, snare drum charts, drum-line and percussion arrangements.

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