The Art of Bop Drumming: Book & Online Audio

by John Riley, Dan Thress

The definitive book on bop drumming---a style that is both the turning point and the cornerstone of contemporary music's development. This comprehensive book and audio presentation covers time playing, comping, soloing, brushes, more jazz essentials, and charts in an entertaining mix of text, music, and pertinent quotes.

Genres: Music

80 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 1994

Reviews

[Carla Archibald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice history of Jazz drumming as well as good examples

[Scott Linden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for learning Jazz, easy to follow and the play along disc made things easy to grasp

[Johann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t say I “finished” this book, per se, because it’s not that kind of book, but this is the book i used with my drum instructor and found it fantastic for the intended purpose.

[Harrison Root · Rating 4 out of 5]

Challenging

[Saul Hirshberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stupendous book reviewing the very fundamentals of Jazz, from melodic accentuations, to comping and embellishments. It is a tremendous guide to improvisational techniques, and reviews numerous styles: breakbeat manipulations, Afro-Cuban 12/8 Polyrhythmic Bembe, and even Samba. There is fantastic sheet music, virtually always implementing the triplet subdivision.

[Joe Dopke · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book for the drummer interested in jazz. Of course, nothing substitutes for pure experience in playing the music itself, and listening as well! Luckily, Riley covers these in here.
The exercises he writes are great and have multiple applications because they are simple.
Covers all the basics, a great starting point.