Product Details

• Actors: Frank Briggs
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Mel Bay
• DVD Release Date: January 7, 2002
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0007WHAPY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,325 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor
Frank Briggs is a musician, teacher, and clinician in the Los Angeles area. His credits include international and domestic touring and recording with various artists, and numerous pubications.

Product Description
Re-edited from the original masters, this companion DVD to Mel Bay's Complete Modern Drum Set Book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. All special effects have been removed and the sound track has been encoded in Dolby Digital stereo. Twenty-one play-along tracks, CueLink and a metronome make this DVD the most valuable cutting edge educational tool for drummers on the market today. Addressing a multitude of styles such as jazz, Latin, rock, R&B, African and more, Frank Briggs presents masterful performances and concepts to guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. This DVD features complete performances of Red Moon, Home, Along the Mohawk, Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is performed... including page headers and pattern numbers for easy reference). Most of the styles include musical examples so you can hear what the patterns sound like in context. Quick moving and packed with information, the DVD covers: The 40 International Rudiments; African beats; Polyrhythm; R&B, Funk, Rock, and Jazz; Odd Meter; Reggae, Latin, and Fusion; Shuffles and Second Line; Linear Patterns; Playing Over the Bar Line; Metric Modulation; Superimposed Meters; and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Title says it all!, June 23, 2007

By	Robert Schwieger "Schweeg" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This really is a complete study in modern drumset playing. The key word to this book is APPLICATION. Every exercise can be applied used. Recommended for Intermediate players who are ready to supercharge their playing to the next level.
The book starts with rudiments and their application to the drumset. Moves into some nice hand development excercises. Then covers the Rock, Funk spectrum with a lot of focus on Linear Grooves. Some Jazz Indepedence, Latin, and Afro-Cuban are next. Therer's some really nice and hard to find sections on world music rhythms (Greek, African, etc.) The book winds up with a very comprehensive coverage of odd-meter material and over the bar line exercises. The play alongs and DVD are nice too!