Ebook: World Jazz Drumming

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.

Many jazz greats have been inspired by world traditions: Paquito D’Rivera, Oregon, Lyle Mays, Caribbean Jazz Project, Andy Narell, Cesar Camargo Mariano, and Michel Camilo. Author Mark Walker has worked with all these artists and others. Let him show you the authentic way to play world rhythms on the drum set!

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 Paquito D’Rivera Quintet. He is a professor of percussion at Berklee College of Music.