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Drum Set Method Books

Here is my collection of drum set method books. When I was teaching, I became obsessed with drum books! Most new books that came into the music store, I would buy. There used to be this big event called The Mammoth Music Mart a few towns over. I would walk out with all kinds of books and records. I also found books at The Chicago Drum show every year I attended. I probably have four to five hundred drum books.

Scanning all of these and looking at the collection, I think my motive at the time being a drum teacher was to ammas a library of books. Looking at it now, I think I liked the artwork and colors on the covers.

 

This is JUST the covers!

Organized by Author's FIRST name

A

        
Art Tyler's        
New Method How To Play Rock & Roll Drums
        
1965        
       
 

B

        
Bill Mintz   Bill Mintz   Bill Wheeler
Different Drummers   Different Drummers   Drum Superstar Series - Yes
1975   Updated - no year   1988
 
 
         
Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler
Drum Superstar Series - Triumph   Drum Superstar Series - Bon Jovi   Drum Superstar Series - Dokken
1989   1989   1989
   
         
Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler
Drum Superstar Series - Genesis   Drum Superstar Series - Motley Crue   Drum Superstar Series - Rolling Stones
1989   1989   1987
   
         
Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler   Bill Wheeler
Drum Superstar Series - Scorpions   Drum Techniques Of Led Zeppelin   Drum Techniques Of Led Zeppelin
1986   1986   1985
   
         
Bill Melenhof        
Getting Your Music Together For Drums        
1984        
       
 

C

        
Carmine Appice   Carmine Appice   Carmine Appice
Realistic Hi Hats   Realistic Reggae Rock   Realistic Rock Drum Method- Updated
1976   1983   1972
   
         
Charles "Chuck" Flores   Charles "Chuck" Flores   Charles "Chuck" Flores
Independence for the Beginner Volume 1   Independence for the Beginner Volume 1   Independence for the Beginner Volume - 2
Re-Issue   1964    
   
         
         
Chuck Morey   Charles Dowd   Charles Perry's
Cutting The Charts   A Thesaurus for the Jazz/Rock Drummer   Introduction to the Drum Set
    1974   1957
   
         
Charles Perry's   Charles Perry's   Chet Duboe
Introduction to the Drum Set   Introduction to the Drum Set Vol 2   Funk Sambas
1966   1966   1982
   
         
Colin Bailey   Cary Nasatir    
Bass Drum Control   Oraise & Worshing Drumming for Church    
     
         
         
         

D

        
Dave Weckl   Dennis Rogers   Don Lombardi
Contemporary Drummer Plus One   Solos Studies For Drum Set   Design For The Drum Set
1987       1981
       
         
Don Osborne        
Slingerland Presents Tricks Of The Trade        
         
       
         

E

        
Ed Shaughnessy   Ed Soph   Ed Thigpen
New Time Signatures In Jazz Drumming   Essential Technique For Drum Set Book1   Rhythm Analysis And Basic Coordination
1966   1986   1977
   
         
Ed Thigpen        
The Sound OF Brushes        
1981        
       
         

F

        
Frank Marino   Frank Derrick III   Frank Derrick III
Time Capsule   Jazz Rock Drumming Volume II   Jazz Rock Drumming Volume III
1983   1973   1973
   
         

G

        
Gene Krupa   Gene Krupa   Gene Krupa
Drum Method   Drum Method   Drum Method
1983   1938   1983 - Reprinted
   
         
Gary Chaffee        
The Independent Drummer        
1972        
       
         

H

        
Howard Fields   Howard Fields   Henry Bellson
Drum Edition - Heavy Metal Mixed Bag   Drum Edition Guns N' Roses   Rock-Jazz Phrasing
1989   1990   1973
   
         
Haskell W. Harr        
Drum Music Vol 1        
1962        
       
         
         
         
         

I

        
Irv Greene        
Show Drumming        
1968        
       
         

J

        
James Morton   James Morton   Jim Ganduglia
Anthology of Rock Drumming   Killer-Fillers   Comprehensive Drum Set
1982   1980   1977
   
         
Joe Cusatis   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Rhythmic Patterns   Big Band Drum Charts   Coordinated Rock Beats Phrased in Three
1963   1976   1973
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Drum Arrangements   Jazz Coordinationand Drum Breaks with a Double-Time Feel   Jazz Coordination With A 12/8 Feel
1965   1974   1973
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Man It's Rough   Quintuplets for Jazz Drumming   Recipes with Paradiddles Around The Drums
1969   1976   1974
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Take A Break   Basic Rock Drumming   Big Band Breaks
1977   1983    
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Coordination Patterns with Eighth-Notes   Coordination Patterns With Eight-Note Triplets   Coordination Patterns with Sixteenth Notes
1973       1970
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Coordination Patterns with 1/16th Note Triplets   Coordination Patterns with A 12/8 Feel   Coordination Patterns with Hi Hat and Bass Drum
1973   1973   1972
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Cut Time Parts   Cymbal Variations For Jazz Drumming   Four-Way Independence for Jazz Drumming
1968   1974   1976
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Modern Drum Solos with bass kicks   Recipes With Doubles Around The Drums   The Rock and Roll Bible
1964   1974   1968
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Rock Around The Drums   Rock Drumming with Quintuplets   Rock Drum Solos
1968   1984   1984
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Rock N Roll   Rock Readers   Show Primer Easy To Read Drum Parts
1974   1970   1968
   
         
Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman   Joel Rothman
Sock It To Me   Three is to Two as Two is to Three   Coordination Solos
1968   1972   1969
   
         
Joe Morello   Joe Morello   John Kinyon
New Directions In Rhythm   Rudimental Jazz   Pop Time
1963   1967   19668
   
         
Jake Jerger   Jake Jerger   Jake Jerger
Brushing Up On Brush Technique   Complete Instruction In Dance Drumming   Complete Instruction In Jazz Ensemble Drumming
    1962   1977
   
         
John Pickering   John Pickering - Plastic Binder   Joe Porcaro
The Drummers Cook Book   The Drummers Cook Book   Odd Times
1972   1972   1970
   
         
Johnny Sciarrino   Joey Herick    
Salsa Rock   Contemporary Drum Solos    
1977   1979    
     
         

K

        
         
         
         

L

        
Louie Bellson   Louie Bellson    
Contemporary Brush Technique   The Musical Drummer    
1985   1984    
     
         

M

        
Marvin Dahlgren's   Modern Drummer   Michael Snyder
Drum Set Control   The Best Of Modern Drummer Rock   Linear Drumming A Creative Approach
1971   1992   1985
   
         

N

        
Neal Sausen   Norman Grossman's    
Drum Techniques - Phil Collins   The Complete Book of Modern Drumming    
1986   1972    
     
         

O

        
         
         
         

P

        
Paul Capozzoli's   Paul Capozzoli's   Paul Capozzoli's
Around The Drums With Open Rolls - Book 2   Around The Drums With Rhythm - Book 3   Around the Drums With Paradiddles - Book 4
1963   1967   1967
   
         
Paul Capozzoli's   Paul Capozzoli's   P. J. Ritter
Twenty Nine Duets For The Drums   Sightreading For The Drums   67 Backbeats
    1970   1966
   
         
Peter Erskine   Philly Joe Jones    
Drum Concepts And Techniques   Brush Artistry    
1987   19668    
     
         
         

Q

        
         
         
         

R

        
Rick Latham   Rodman Andrew Sims   Rodman Andrew Sims
Advanced Funk Studies   Fundamentals of Jazz Drumming Vol 1   Fundamentals of Jazz Drumming Vol 2
1980   1982   1982
   
         
Ron Fink   Roy Burns   Roy Burns
Latin American Rhythms For The Drum Set   Advanced Rock and Roll Drumming   Studio Funk Drumming
1971   1968   1981
   
         
Roy Burns   Roy Burns & Joey Farris   Roy Harte
Drum Set Music   One Surface Learning   Swing Reading For Drummers
1970   1986   1965
   
         

S

        
Sam Bradley   Sandy Feldstein   Sandy Feldstein
Hitmen   Alfred's New band method - Drum Set   Jazz Drum Set
1982   1972   1970
   
         
Sam Ulano   Shelley Horn   Sonny Igoe
Solo Guide   New Drum Study   Drum Breaks And Fills Ins
1957   1964   1959
   
         
Steve Gadd   Steve Gadd   Steve Gadd
Steve Gadd Up Close   The Steve Gadd Book   Transcriptions By Kkrzysztof Filipski
1990   1985   2010
   
         
Steve Houghton        
Essential Styles For The Drummer        
1990        
       
         

T

        
Ted Reed   Ted Reed   Tracy Pitzen & Michael Keys
Drum Solos and Fill-Ins - Book 1   Drum Solos and Fill-Ins - Book 2   Introductory Drum Set Independence
1959   1965   1970
   
         

U

        
         
         
         

V

        
Vinny Appice        
Rock Steady        
1984        
       
         
         

W

        
William Norine Jr.   William Norine Jr.    
Virtuoso Studies For The Drum Set   Four Way Fusion    
1979   1980    
     
         


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