5 Drum Books Every Drummer Should Have!

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What are the best drum books? I get asked this all the time from students and there are loads of great drum books out there but these are the 5 I think every drummer needs in their collection.
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[@DaveMajor]

What are your favourite drum books?

[@tdrum21]

Zoros R&B drumming (including his play alongs, Tommy Igoes Groove Essentials, Breakbeat Bible, Funky Beat by Garibaldi, Steve Houghtons Big band drumming, Jon Riley’s art of bop drumming , & syncopation of course

[@DaveMajor]

@@tdrum21 all excellent choices here sir! Do you have The Alan Dawson Book?/ That opened my mind so much to how you can interpret syncopation.

[@tdrum21]

Dave Major no I don’t, I need that one. Does it have his written warm up in it. Also forgot to mention Benny Grebs accompanying book to his first dvd. Such a wealth of info there 👌🏽

[@DaveMajor]

@@tdrum21 it does mate! There are three sections. The warm-up A stick control section Then a whole section of syncopation applications. Its really really great

[@ryan0000e]

Check out Blake Fleming’s book of Rhythm! It’s pretty open ended for interpreting a la Stick Control, Syncopation but contains every possible rhythm-5,096 possibilities I believe. Ive been using it for coordination, accent/pad work...basically whatever you need. Lifetimes of learning.

[@drummercouk]

Super cool Dave thanks. I’m a big fan of books too. I didn’t know about most of those so will have to check em. I’d add my absolute faves Break Beat Bible by Mike Adamo and Commandments Of Funk Zoro/Glass which both changed my playing and teaching of groove technique in music to dance to. I also quite like that Beats Exotiques by Gary Leach which made me think more musically especially with the ride hand (but I might be heavily biased with this one 😁)

[@DaveMajor]

Beats Exotiques is an excellent book dude. You did an awesome job! Break Beat Bible is awesome as well. Fills a great niche and does it well. I think you'll love Groove Alchemy

[@drummercouk]

@@DaveMajor I bloody know! But got too many already!

[@susunaga7]

Four way coordination elliot and Dahlgren. John Ramsay The complete drum set vocabulary. Rick Latham Contemporary Drum set techniques. Master studies Joe morello. Charlie Wilcoxon.

[@DaveMajor]

Huge fan of the Dawson book. Blew my mind when I first started with it

[@DaveEales72]

I really like ‘The Breakbeat Bible’ by Mike Adamo. Similar approach to Groove Alchemy, in that it takes you through the journey and history of funk and breakbeat drumming. Has some great 2 bar funky loop ideas etc in there....Another book worth checking out is ‘Exercises in African-American Funk’ by Jonathan Joseph & Steve Rucker....It explores the Mangambe, Bikusti and goes in deep on shuffles (in fact, the exercises in it really strengthened my shuffle playing). I picked that book up after going to a Jonathan Joseph clinic.

[@DaveMajor]

Not heard of the JJ book man. I'll have to check it out as it sounds super fun!

[@tdrum21]

Love the breakbeat bible

[@DaveEales72]

Dave Major Defo worth checking out :)

[@DaveMajor]

@@DaveEales72 nice one. I will!

[@rayboreham2648]

Agreed on the Joseph/Rucker book. Excellent.

[@NJacana]

Next time hold each book up to the camera a moment.

[@DaveMajor]

Great idea! I will do

[@MusicProductionJS]

I think the problem with stick control is that you have to know how to adapt the stickings to get the most out of it, based on what you’re practicing, and that (as you’ve said) adaptation has been done in a lot of more modern books. My favourite most practical books are; mini monster book of rock drumming - (and almost every other book) by Joel rothman, groove freedom and linear drumming by mike johnston.

[@DaveMajor]

Totally agree! Mikes book is great (both but specifically GF) couple that with New Breed and you have a pretty powerful practice system

[@rundrum_micha]

I definitely love Jost's Groove and Fill Book. For the work-out at home or even if I'm in a hotel or somewhere else I choose Anika Nilles Pad Book 🙏🏻💯

[@DaveMajor]

Nice one! I haven't checked out the Anika book but it's on my list!

[@lucienne66]

Love this, Dave! You have a lot of books-how about a part 2 (and maybe 3?) to this video?

[@DaveMajor]

Glad you liked the video. Great idea to do a follow-up! Ill see if I can make something

[@blainerobey4452]

Hey Dave! Thanks for the video! Question about what you’re mentioning about new breed: when you say you run permutation work through new breed, how exactly do you mean? Like if you’re permutating through a paradiddle for example, how are you applying new breed reading while doing that. Would you mind elaborating on this a bit for me? Thank you!!

[@DaveMajor]

Hi mate, thanks for watching. I think you are mixing up inversions vs permutations. Permutations to me (language of drumming benny greb/Mike Johnston Groove Freedom etc) is moving through the rhythmic grid and in 16ths notes there are 16 of them. ALL of these rhythms make up every single page in new breed and therefore you can apply those ideas to NB. That's the quick answer and there's a lot more depth to it and I cover this in either private lessons or on my website www.davemajormusic.com in the Groove Mastery course. Does that make sense??

[@blainerobey4452]

@@DaveMajor yeah i think I understand what you’re saying. I just got language of drumming so I’m going to explore using it in new breed more. Thanks man!

[@DaveMajor]

You are welcome. If you need a hand then reach out and we can do a lesson or I can point you to the right course on my website. There are ways to learn this stuff and make it stick! Best of luck my man Dave

[@lalhmunmawiapachuau7777]

Very informative! I thought 'Stick control' was the most effective one. Thanks for suggesting other books!

[@DaveMajor]

You can do a lot with the first page ....but I honestly think it has been superseded and surpassed by other books and ideas.

[@lalhmunmawiapachuau7777]

@@DaveMajor Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions! 🤝🏻

[@HelmarWeiss]

Gute Auswahl!