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Book Description
Looking for a way to improve your playing? Stuck in a rut with your practice routine? Here's an excellent way to get a whole new perspective and improve your musicianship too! Crosstraining in percussion means applying the rhythms and techniques, stickings and phrasing that you're already familiar with to new instruments you wish to learn. If you are a drummer who wants to learn to solo, what better way than to be able to play the song itself, melodically, on another instrument that's played with your drummer's muscles? And you mallet players out there can play more concise, rhythmically accurate solos, if you can employ the precision required to play Funk, Rudimental, or Fusion drums! Crosstraining enables the multi-faceted percussionist develop his/her skills by applying a specific rhythm or technique, one at a time, to all the instruments in their collection. The book includes 2 CDs of material to learn from and practice with.
About the Author
Rob Lewis is from Colorado Springs, Colorado where he was musically active in the Ft. Carson Army Band, as well as a freelance drummer for a wide variety of other bands in the area. As a vibraphonist he fronted his own Rob Lewis Trio, playing jazz standards regularly at the Broadmoor Hotel and other venues. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, cum laude with a B. A. degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging. For two years, Rob performed with dance and show bands on both Norwegian and Holland-America cruise lines backing singers, jugglers, magicians, comedians, and name acts such as the Coasters, the Diamonds, and the HBO Comedy Showcase.
Having developed a solid teaching curriculum over the last 16 years, and performing with some of the best blues and jazz artists in his home state of Colorado, Rob brought his experience to the Portland, Oregon music scene where he gives lessons at his home studio. He is currently on staff at Reed College, Lewis & Clark College, and the Oregon Ballet Theater School, accompanying ballet, contemporary, and improvisational dance classes with the MalletKAT, and lots of hand percussion. He is also performing and composing music locally with 3 Leg Torso, an eclectic bunch of geniuses that perform mostly original music steeped in Klezmer, Latin, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern music. Rob also freelances with various blues and jazz bands, most notably the Terry robb Band and the Woody Hite Big Band.
Crosstraining: A Method for Applying Rhythms and Techniques to Drum Set, Hand Percussion and Mallet Instruments,Rob Lewis,Mel Bay Publications, Inc.,0786660945,General,Music
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