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Progressive Drumming Essentials: Switching Gears with Double Bass Drums

Progressive Drumming Essentials is a collection of articles originally written for Modern Drummer magazine. They are exactly what the title says, PROGRESSIVE drumming essentials. This series of articles, and the book that contains them all, represent a great deal of…

By Aaron Edgar
Aug 1, 2025

Progressive Drumming Essentials: Double Bass Boot Camp

Progressive Drumming Essentials is a collection of articles originally written for Modern Drummer magazine. They are exactly what the title says, PROGRESSIVE drumming essentials. This series of articles, and the book that contains them all, represent a great deal of…

By Aaron Edgar
Jul 1, 2025

Progressive Drumming Essentials: Understanding Odd Time Signatures

Progressive Drumming Essentials is a collection of articles originally written for Modern Drummer magazine. They are exactly what the title says, PROGRESSIVE drumming essentials. This series of articles, and the book that contains them all, represents a great deal of…

By Aaron Edgar
Jun 1, 2025

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: The Ladder

For the last several months, we have been excerpting chapters from the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming by Bobby Rondinelli. The new and expanded edition of his book includes nine new double bass drumming…

By Bobby Rondinelli
May 1, 2025

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Double-Stroke Hands, Single Stroke Feet

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Apr 1, 2025
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Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Fast Track Double Bass

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Mar 1, 2025

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Linear Cross-Rhythm Combinations

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Feb 1, 2025

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Seven Note Linear Cross Rhythms

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby Rondinelli includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and…

Modern Drummer
Jan 1, 2025

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Five and Six Note Linear Cross Rhythms

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Dec 1, 2024

Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Linear Cross-Rhythms

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

Modern Drummer
Nov 1, 2024

The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Power Three’s

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby Rondinelli includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Oct 1, 2024

The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming: Eighth Notes

In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary…

Bobby Rondinelli
Sep 1, 2024
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Drumset Duets

The concept of using two drummers on stage has a long and celebrated history. Artists like the Joshua Redman Double Trio in jazz and John Mayer in his live performance in Los Angeles (“Where the Light Is”) have utilized this…

Stephane Chamberland
Aug 1, 2024

The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming

Double Bass Drumming in The Blues In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double…

By Bobby Rondinelli
Jul 1, 2024
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