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Sadly disappointed,
This review is from: Progressive Drum Syncopation (Paperback)
After acquiring Jim Latta's book "Around the Drums with Syncopation," and spending nearly 2 hours gleaning its contents, I was very disappointed. The cover clearly states that the book is for "Beginner to Advanced Level," yet its contents barely match what a beginner, let alone an advanced syncopated drummer would want. Latta's book is good for sight reading various drum patterns--the vast majority of which are *not* syncopated as defined by the auther (more on that aspect later in this review).The style employed by Latta is reminiscent of Ted Reed's "Progressive Steps to Syncopation" (my copy of Reed's book I have completely worn out and is copyrighted 1958, I also used it to learn this style of drumming in my college days). Yet both books suffer from the same malady, neither provides syncopated rhythms throughout. At least Latta's book keeps the standard rhythms going from snare then to tom-tom and finally to floor tom. Reed keeps the rhythms constantly on the snare. Again however, the vast majority of these rhythms are not syncopated as defined--they are standard sight reading rhythms containing *neither* accents *nor* ties. Any drummer looking for basic to intermediate drum patterns that go drum-to-drum, bar-to-bar, that is, each bar has the same rhythm but on a different drum, then this book is for you. Be forwarned, only the last couple of lessons cover simple syncopation. In conclusion, according to the author's own words, syncopation is defined as: "The accenting of a normally unaccented beat, i.e. an 'off the beat' rhythm" (p. 52 of "Around the Drums with Syncopation"). Only 4 lessons (19 through 22) cover this concept and do it briefly. The remaining lessons (1 through 18), are good for sight reading but have *no* relationship to syncopation as defined by the author. In fact, the bulk of these lessons don't contain *any* accents or ties that would indicate standard syncopated notation. The author, as quoted above, defined this style of drumming as "accented," yet *no* accents exist within the first 18 lessons. Sorry to state, I did not enjoy the book at all, and was sadly disappointed by its overall contents.
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Progressive "Around the Drums with Syncopation" has been designed to give drummers, of all styles and levels of playing ability, a carefully graded introduction to reading and playing drum music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Progressive "Around the Drums with Syncopation" has been designed to give drummers, of all styles and levels of playing ability, a carefully graded introduction to reading and playing drum music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bar Solo Exercise, Sixteenth Note New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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