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Excerpts from Roots Jam Drum Rhythm Notation Books

View excerpts from Roots Jam 4: World Beats – Rhythms Wild!

  • Book page with Table of Contents
  • Blog announcement
  • Audio Samples
  • YouTube Ballet Duns lessons
  • Free download (PDF): Notation for ballet duns on YouTube
  • Samba du Soleil fusion batucada band
  • Musical Sound Awareness
  • Hendrix and Jamming
  • Music: Routine + Life
  • Traditional Drumming in Sri Lanka
  • “No Cover Tunes!”

View excerpts from Roots Jam 3: Arrangements for West African Drum & Dance

  • Table of Contents
  • List of traditional rhythm arrangements included
  • Why Roots Jam 3
  • Notation Guide and samples
  • Traditional Solos and Improvisation
  • Lesson: Downbeats and Upbeats
  • Lesson: Handing and Timing for Basic 4/4 parts
  • Koreduga: A Time Puzzler
  • Bell and Clave Patterns
  • Grow Your Own Drum and Dance Group
  • Audio samples (traditional and original, mp3)

View excerpts from Roots Jam 2: African and Afro-Latin Drum Rhythms

  • Table of Contents
  • List of traditional rhythms included
  • Box notation example
  • Introduction
  • Sample chapter

View excerpts from Roots Jam 1:
Collected Rhythms for Hand Drum & Percussion

  • Table of Contents
  • Index of rhythms, composers, topics
  • Notation format
  • Sample rhythms and lessons with audio drum clips
  • Basic drumming rhythms and exercises
  • Experience and insight: Of Drum Groups and All-Night Jams

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Djembe Rhythms from West Africa

Hand Drum Lessons & Notation for Djembes, Dununs & Bells

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