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Mel Bay Studio: Jazz Drum Cookbook

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I recently received this book and I've been working on it for more than a week. It's somehow surprising that this book is not widely known in the drumming community (at least here in Italy).
I find this book excellent. It contains many coordination exercises on 1, 2 and 3 voices (all combinations of snare drum, bass drum and hi-hat), both on swung eighths and triplets, against the jazz ride pattern. The exercises are of gradually increasing difficulty so the book would be perfect both for the beginner or the advanced jazz drummer. The review solos at the end of each chapter are musically pleasant.

An easy to follow progression of fundamentals leading to solos, this is a great book for staring your jazz studies. It does follow the one primary basic ride sound, but by the end I would think one would be able to improvise fairly well around that pattern.

Great book. It gives you alot of really useful and musical snare drum bass drum combinations. What else is there to say about it? It is a great book.

this is a great book for practicing your bebop style of drumming, the best one I've seen, 5 stars

Wow! A great book for those who want to extend their studies to Jazz. The author has clear instructions and the exercises challenging depending on your level of experties on drums.

A must have book for those in Jazz studies!

I really like this book.
It broke down jazz drumming so perfectly by the time anyone finishes they'll be havin' jazz drummin' fever.
Seriously.
No Joke.
It was also recommended by my drum teacher Larz.
So that's how you know it's good.

I absolutely love this book, it's a fantastic resource if you're looking to get into jazz drumming. Every percussion instructor I've ever had has recommended this book to me, and for good reason.
One of my friends actually learned jazz drumming over the summer just by spending hours and hours with this book.