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UPDATE: This is the LAST DAY OF THE SALE, so get these while they’re a little bit cheaper. Skype lessons scheduled before the first of January get the discounted rate, so get yours now, if you’re into saving money… if you swing that way…
What the hey, let’s do a little holiday discount on Cruise Ship Drummer! books for the month of December, let’s say… 15% off… I was going to have a coupon code but Lulu doesn’t offer them, so… everybody! Everybody wins! And, yes, that is on top of the 15% discount already in effect for the 2011 Book of the Blog.
What we have available are:
100 Grooves — $11.01 with discount
One hundred (give or take) transcribed drum grooves, with performance notes, by Zigaboo Modeliste, James Gadson, Clyde Stubblefield, Mike Clark, Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell, and many more! Difficulty ranges from very easy to very challenging.
2013 Book of the Blog — $12.71 with discount
120 pages. All downloadable material from the blog in 2013, with additional commentary. Includes fat sections on jazz, pop, snare drum, polyrhythms, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian styles, more! There’s a lot of good practicing in this book.
2011 Book of the Blog — transcriptions — $10.47 with discount
138 pages. All the transcriptions posted on the blog in 2011, including things by Elvin Jones (Big Nick, Tunji, more), Jack Dejohnette (God Bless The Child solo), Vinnie Colaiuta, Roy Haynes (famous In Walked Bud solo), Max Roach, Tony Williams, Zigaboo Modeliste, and a whole lot of other great players. The highlights of the book are two Vinnie Colaiuta transcriptions from Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage: the drumming during the guitar solos from Packard Goose and Keep It Greasey— that latter in 19/16… that’s the time signature. It’s insane. Neither of those are available on the blog anymore, by the way— you can only get them by buying the book.
Aaaand, since December is usually a rather slack month for the private lessons, let’s offer 15% off on Skype lessons as well— that’s $42.50 for an hour lesson, or 35€ for you Euro-zone folks. We do a lot of hard stuff on the blog, but I’m happy to work people at all levels of ability, so don’t hesitate to get in touch! Drop me a line and let me know what you’re having problems with, and what you’d like to improve on.