The Real Easy Book Vol 1 Tunes For Beginning

Make The Real Easy Book come alive for your drum students! Complete drum charts and instructional videos for each song, as well as a primer for many styles of contemporary drumming.

• Complete drum charts for each tune.
• A variety of notation styles are used to reflect what drummers may encounter professionally.
• Parts simple enough for beginning players; but which can easily be expanded upon by advanced players.
• Access to a complete set of play through videos for each song.
• Each drum chart includes figures for the harmony, background and shout chorus sections of the arrangements.
• Additional videos and study guides for particular drumming topics like: the « 2-Feel », « Elvin Jones » style comping, basic set-ups and fills, Latin Jazz drum grooves, etc.
• Easy, but varied parts give the drum student a good start in learning a variety of jazz drumming styles, from « 2-feel » to « Samba » to « Funk ».
• Suggested simplified grooves, and basic fills are included with many tunes for easy reference.
• Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop’s summer jazz camps. It works!
• Each drum part, though written in a given style, can easily be used to catch the same figures in different styles.
• Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos.
• The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery and more!

Get yourself — or your beginning jazz combo — sounding good right away with these drum parts tightly written to musically enhance the 3-horn arrangements.