Groove Essentials 1.0 - The Play Along Book with Online Audio | Sheet Music and Practice Tracks | Drum Songbook for Beginners to Advanced Players | ... Encyclopedia for the 21st Century Drummer

This book (1.0 & 2.0)is so different to any other ‘drum’ book. You get a real understanding about playing not just drums but music. Equally, you get the freedom to add your own versions. AND by the way, you don’t ever actually complete them. You can go back any time. Also great reference manual for world styles if you need a quick answer.

One of the BEST books out there! It's RAMMED with LOTS to do. Very well written content (often light-hearted and humourous too which makes for easy reading) and excellent transcribed grooves and scores. If you've not got it you're missing out. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners but if you've been playing a while and got your playing fairly together or you can read and want to expand your ideas and knowledge OR you've a teacher who can guide you through - GET IT! Get the DVD that goes with it - Tommy is just... awesome!

I love this book and turn to it for my own playing as well as teaching. The play alongs are a great standard and having 3 versions for each groove means they don't quickly get boring. Plus once you have mastered the grooves you can always start mixing them up. I personally love putting world grooves like the Mozambique into funk settings. The charts also start simple enough and add different symbols one at a time rather than all at the start which I find students really respond well to.

Learning drums and the only book I have.It gives you some structure when teaching yourself and good quality backing tracks. Recommend.

I loved it - perfect book for the beginner who likes a bit of creativity and flexibility too. The book teaches you how to do the basics but also offers really good variations, essentially 3 variations for each song, and there's 47 songs here with a wide range of difficulty so I'd say grade 1-4 would find it useful. The book came in perfect condition too, definitely good value for money. Thanks!

Recommended by my drum tutor and it's a great learning tool, Tommy Igoe has an actual band out together and working through the various grooves slow and fast is a great way to work in hi hat technique and limb independence, also give you experience in 'feeling' the groove I played groove 4 slow and it really helped with my open hi hat control

It’s been my beginner bible so far and has been a superb introduction to the drums. There’s a digital download for the play along tracks. I would recommend getting the DVD (also available digitally but separately) as it makes it much easier to follow.

Great book / cd, a good collection of grooves presented on paper and with backing tracks....there is a problem however.... This Book and CD is not the complete kit as was intended to be........to keep the price down it is being sold without the essential DVD that is referred to. Without this DVD you are on your own,no tuition.... there is no demo of the grooves...... so either buy the more expensive offering that specifically stated it has the DVD, or (like I did) download a copy from Hudson the publishers for 19$ Even havingto buy the download it was still good value, but like everything else buying cheap, not very clever !

My drum teacher recommended this book to me and I enjoy my daily practice more. An excellent book for all level drummers.

No duden adquirir este libro si desean tener a la mano el conocimiento de tocar varias ritmos, el audio viene por separado y es fundamental adquirilo también para cuidar la acentuación necesaria que describe el maestro así como para saber si están comprendiendo la lectura del mismo. Ojo.... Yo lo compré porque una chica baterista profesional a la que sigo lo recomendó en algún video que trataba de lo que necesitas para aprender a leer partituras pero una vez que me llegó el libro y comencé a hojear clarísimamente el maestro autor indica que este libro NO es para aprender a leer partituras y te dice que si no sabes leer entonces primero lo aprendas de algún maestro. El libro va para que aprendas a ejecutar muchos diferentes tipos de ritmos de manera correcta pero solo eso. También por cada ritmo te pone entre 3 a 4 niveles de ejecución diferentes.... Con el que comiences practicando y luego el último será el ritmo definitivo. Todo a base obviamente de la notación en el pentagrama.

El libro es muy bueno, de lo mejorcito que leí en batería, sirve para todos los niveles, es muy intuitivo y fácil de entender. Vale la pena leerlo completo por más que seas un baterista avanzado, realmente tiene muy buenos grooves (ya anote mis favoritos). Desafortunadamente el libro solo está en ingles y no se consigue en Español, pero si entiendes algo de ingles entonces no te será ningún problema. El libro no viene con el DVD, pero en mi caso lo solucioné enviando un mensaje a Hudson Music y me otorgaron un link con un código para poder ver los videos.

E' un capolavoro di musica groove, da avere assolutamente nella propria libreria. Io studio musica e questo per me è essenziale.

This book, and accompanying groove track recordings, is invaluable for the drummer of all skill levels on 2 different levels. First it provides a comprehensive groove encyclopedia that can be learned and played in almost any style. Very handy. Second, the book and recorded groove/songs teach the drummer about song stucture and how to build and track grooves to fit seemlessly into the song whether an 8 bar, 12 bar, 16 bar or other song construct. I've never seen this approach elsewhere and working with the book is fun, challenging and will definitely enhance your song management skills!