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Creative Brazilian Drumming by Christiano Galvão Afro-Brazilian Percussion Guide By Kirk Brundage

Creative Brazilian Drumming by Christiano Galvão BOOK/CD LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED $14.99 Written by Brazilian native and prolific drumset artist Christiano Galvão, Creative Brazilian Drumming is focused on teaching you to play four popular Brazilian styles and also to develop the…

Modern Drummer
May 9, 2012

Jeff Coffin and Jeff Sipe Duet

  CD Presented as a “single, stream-of-consciousness listening experience,” Duet finds Flecktones/Dave Matthews Band saxophonist Jeff Coffin and Aquarium Rescue Unit drummer Jeff Sipe engaging in a beautifully textured, free-form session using horns, drums, mallets, bells, gongs—anything and everything. Sipe’s…

Modern Drummer
Feb 24, 2012

CinqueCatch A Corner

CD Really, it could only be Steve Gadd’s ghost-stroke-laden, slightly behind the beat, super funky pattern that’s heard on “Conflicting Advice,” the opening track on Catch a Corner, a hip jazz-funk disc featuring B3 great Joey DeFrancesco. Halfway through the…

Modern Drummer
Nov 11, 2011

Rival SonsPressure and Time

  CD This album’s easy to love. As enjoyable as Jack White’s recent foray into funky, riff-tastic garage rock with the Dead Weather has been, Rival Sons seem to inhabit that world even more comfortably. Bathed in a hugely enjoyable…

Modern Drummer
Nov 4, 2011

Kurt Reil of the Grip Weeds

Greetings from New Jersey! I sing and play drums for the Grip Weeds, and last year we released the double CD Strange Change Machine. We’ve received many great reviews and notices for it, along with lots of back-slapping from our fans,…

Modern Drummer
Oct 20, 2011
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Groove Alchemy by Stanton Moore

  DVD/BOOK/MP3 DISC LEVEL: ALL  DVD $29.99, BOOK/DISC $24.99 The DVD of the well-structured, in-depth multimedia package from New Orleans drumming great Stanton Moore reveals a concise chronological history of the rhythmic foundations and evolution of funky drumming, beginning with…

Modern Drummer
Sep 29, 2011

AC/DC Play Drums with the Best of...

BOOK/CDS (2) LEVEL: ALL $24.99 For decades, legendary Aussie rockers AC/DC have so unapologetically celebrated their lack of creative evolution that it might seem pointless to study drum charts for the band’s greatest (or any) songs. Before MD offices get…

Modern Drummer
Sep 27, 2011

Double Bass Drum Freddomby Virgil Donati

BOOK/CD LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED $24.95 To provide a balanced starting point for solid double bass chops, this well-structured book by the fleet-footed forerunner of double bass exploration begins with exercises designed to help build left-foot technique to mirror the…

Modern Drummer
Sep 2, 2011

Pete Best: The Original Beatle Grooves On New Solo Album

Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles, has returned to performing in recent years. He’s also just released his first-ever CD as a leader, Haymans Green, which will definitely remind you that he was once a Beatle. Best’s music…

Modern Drummer
Dec 25, 2008

Vinnie Zummo

Hi, MD readers, Vinnie Zummo here. Though I'm best known for my seven years as a featured guitarist with The Joe Jackson Band, I've played the drums for as long as I've played guitar. On my latest CD, Swinging Guitar…

Modern Drummer
Oct 24, 2008

Chris "Gartdrumm" Gartmann

The resurgence of progressive rock has opened the door for younger drummers to rediscover the more technically challenging aspects of this classic art rock culture. The Woodstock, New York–based prog-pop group 3 is on the rise, and has tapped into…

Modern Drummer
Jun 5, 2008

Jody Cortez: Breathing Life Into Loops

Jody Cortez has recently released a CD of loops under the banner King Cortez called Killer Loops (Big Fish Audio). "It encompasses performances in Latin, bebop, jazz, reggae, rock, funk, R&B, hip-hop, and straight-ahead rock," Cortez says. (It's available online…

Modern Drummer
May 12, 2004
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