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Students Books (with individual CD). A CD set (CDs 2, 3 & 4) is available with speical Percussion tracks.

Titles are: Swingin' for the Fences * La Almeja Pequena * Hunting Wabbits * Whodunnit? * Count Bubbas Revenge * Get in Line * Horn of Puente * The Jazz Police * High Maintenance * Cut 'n Run. Grade: Advanced

Book/CD Intermediate Jazz Conception is another addition to the popular series of etude books created by Jim Snidero, featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the world. This book/cd set includes the bass lines used to accompany a soloist performing 15 etudes based on standards, modal tunes and blues, demonstrated by Kenny Washington on drums with the incredibly swinging rhythm section of Dave Hazeltine on piano and Paul Gill or Peter Washington on bass. The recording features two separate versions of each etude; one with the complete performance and one without the drums in the mix. Hear how Kenny Washington accompanies the soloist and performs musically within the group, play with or without the drums on the cd, and learn about both jazz style and improvisation from some of the best.

Book & CD. Exact transcription, as played by Kenny Washington, plus 21 drum lead sheets. See and hear how a well known drummer phrases and articulates and play along with or without the soloist on the CD. Play along with one of todays finest, swinging New York rhythm sections: Mike LeDonne on piano, Dennis Irwin on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums. Use the book/CD sets for private lessons, for self-study, or in any combination up to a full jazz ensemble, including flute and clarinet. If you are more advanced you may want to use the book to develop your sight reading abilities, for transcribing the etudes off the CD (then check against the book) or for just having fun playing along with a great jazz rhythm section.

Rhythm Cycles & Polymetric Patterns for Instrumentalists, Percussionists, Composers & Music Educators

Book/CD (CD containing 91 music examples illustrating all the scores and reductions presented in the book). This book helps to overcome the various obstacles and difficulties drummers and multipercussionists from the four corners of the earth have had to face in view of their lack of knowledge about Cuban rhythms: Step by step, it offers – in a very skillful and up-to-date manner – a compilation of polyrhythmic transcriptions of pieces performed by most of the existing Cuban music ensembles featuring a percussion section. In doing so, it gives a novel and extraordinary kind of survey of our Cuban culture, a survey that could be compared to a “Concise Atlas of Cuban Rhythms”.