Book Excerpts

Check out the following links to get a taste of the soul, funk and hip-hop experience:

Chapter 1 - Soul Drumming:
A brief historical overview (exerpt)
Soul Play Along (with charts)

Chapter 2 - Funk Drumming:
The Ten Commandments of Funk (listening guide exerpt)
50 Most-covered tunes of the Funk era (exerpt)

Chapter 3 - Hip-Hop Drumming
The Grooves - Time feel development: New Jack Swing (exerpts with charts)

Chapter 4 - Developing Your Own Grooves
Super Bad - Grooves that make you go Hmmm...(exerpts with charts)

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