(Percussion). With The Post-Bop Drum Book, jazz/funk drumming legend
Mike Clark provides a complete overview of contemporary jazz drumming.
The book combines conceptual text with notated exercises, transcriptions
and performance concepts covering bebop and post-bop drumming. Topics
covered include developing the ride beat, comping, triplet variations,
advanced independence with the hi-hat as a fourth voice, the jazz waltz,
rolls, fives and sevens, be-bop phrasing, post-bop phrasing,
straight-eighth phrasing, and more. Mike provides insight into his
background and development, and shares his thoughts on developing your
own voice, studying the masters, heritage and lineage, communicating
with other musicians, listening, creativity, tuning, and much more. The
package is rounded out by audio and video files of Mike performing many
of the examples from the book. Audio is accessed online using the unique
code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files
include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to
slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys,
and pan left or right.