(Berklee Guide). Enrich your drumming with world rhythms and sounds.
World music presents many learning opportunities and challenges,
especially for drums and percussion. Learning grooves from Africa, Latin
America, South America, and other regions 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: Miles Davis,
John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, and so many others.
Follow in their footsteps, and discover how to use these elements to
inspire your own music. You will learn to: * Incorporate world
instruments into a standard drum kit * Coordinate stick, foot, hand
techniques to enrich your palette of articulations * Play dozens of
world grooves * Take inspiration from world grooves for your own
improvisations * Perform advanced concepts, such as odd time signatures
and metric modulation * Be prepared for many creative musical
situations, through knowledge of more styles and greater mastery of
drumming fundamentals The accompanying audio includes groove examples
and play-along tracks of Mark Walker's original music, featuring guest
artists such as Paquito D'Rivera! Mark Walker is a multiple-Grammy Award
winning artist, who is currently a member of Oregon and the Pacquito
d'Rivera Quintet. He is an associate professor of percussion at Berklee
College of Music.
