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2025 UPDATE:<\/strong> I have written a couple of new books since this page was updated: Syncopation in 3\/4<\/strong>, and Rants, vol. 1<\/strong>\u2014 that latter a very opinionated and hopefully entertaining collection of thoughts on drumming and the drumming world. You can now get all of these print books through my cymbal site, Cymbalistic<\/a>, or at your lesson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drumming books written by Todd Bishop. Click on the cover images to purchase!
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100 Grooves<\/a> – print book, 97 pages<\/strong>
\n100+ drum grooves, as performed by top drummers, including Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell, Zigaboo Modeliste, James Gadson, Billy Cobham, Clyde Stubblefield, Mike Clark, Stewart Copeland, and many, many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Playing Samba and Bossa Nova – A Field Manual For Drummers
\nprint<\/a> and e-book<\/a>, 37 pages<\/strong>
\nHow to play Samba and Bossa Nove in a jazz band\/lounge band setting. All the musical essentials you really need in the field, playing professionally. Topics include: your job as drummer when playing this music, how to build your own grooves, how to play with a band, how to play creatively and authentically, more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 Elvin Jones Transcriptions<\/a> – e-book, 35 pages<\/strong>
\nSummertime – drum solo, with accompanying figures.
\nLonnie’s Lament – piano solo accompaniment
\nBig Nick – complete tune
\nTunji – complete tune
\nSoul Eyes – brushes, piano and saxophone solo accompaniment<\/p>\n\n\n

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5 Tony Williams transcriptions<\/a> – e-book, 34 pages<\/strong>
\nMiles Davis \/ Fall: entire track
\nMiles Davis \/ Seven Steps To Heaven: head and trumpet solo accompaniment
\nEric Dolphy \/ Hat And Beard: head in and out
\nStanley Clarke \/ Lopsy Lu: complete track with drum solo
\nDon Pullen \/ Once Upon A Time: drum solo in 3\/4<\/p>\n\n\n

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5 Roy Haynes Solos<\/a> – e-book, 21 pages<\/strong>
\nIn Walked Bud – played by Thelonious Monk
\nSnap Crackle – played by Roy Haynes
\nReflection – played by Roy Haynes
\nBad News Blues – played by Roy Haynes
\nAll The Things You Are – played by Pat Metheny<\/p>\n\n\n

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5 Max Roach Solos<\/a><\/strong> – e-book, 26 pages<\/strong>
\nClifford Brown & Max Roach – Jordu
\nThelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
\nSonny Rollins – Blue Seven
\nMax Roach – Garvey’s Ghost
\nMax Roach – Nepa<\/p>\n\n\n

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5 Zigaboo Modeliste Transcriptions<\/a> – e-book, 24 pages<\/strong>
\nStay Away: complete tune with drum breaks
\nAfrica: complete tune – New Orleans street beat
\nGood Old Funky Music – complete tune – Slamming funk!
\nThe Mob: improvised sections
\nCabbage Alley: improvised breakdown
\nAll the major drum grooves from the album Look-ka Py Py<\/p>\n\n\n

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5 70s Funk Transcriptions<\/a> – e-book, 27 pages<\/strong>
\nStanley Clarke \/ School Days – drums by Gerry Brown
\nFunkadelic \/ Trash A Go-Go – drums by Tyrone Lampkin
\nDirty Harry Theme \/ Lalo Schifrin – drums by John Guerin
\nBetty Davis \/ Anti-Love Song – drums by Greg Errico
\nJoe Henderson \/ Earth – drums by Ndugu Leon Chancler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cruise Ship Drummer! Books of the Blog – print
\n<\/strong>These books include all of the downloadable drum exercises and transcriptions posted on my Cruise Ship Drummer!<\/strong> drumming blog in the given year.  Each book is jam-packed with fun and challenging practice materials for intermediate to very advanced players.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2016<\/a><\/strong> – 120 pages
\nContents include: Rock beats: simple displacements \/ Two beat rock fills \/ EZ one-handed Reed interpretation \/ EZ Reed method with flams and 16 th notes \/ Basic 12-8 grooves \/ Basic fluency in 12-8 \/ EZ Reed method: triplet lick \/ EZ Reed method: another triplet lick \/ Page o’ coordination: shuffle bass drum variations \/ Double-bass 5 and 7-stroke singles \/ odd meters \/ Snare drum etude in 2-4: 8ths and triplets \/ Snare drum etude in 5-8 \/ Three Camps in 5s \/ Linear patterns in 7-8: four note pattern \/ Linear patterns in 7-8: one measure \/ Linear patterns in 7-8: two measures \/ Page o’ coordination: Elvin Jones \u2013 That 5\/4 Bag \/ Reed interpretation: triplets with breaks \/ EZ Tony Williams-like method \/ EZ Tony Williams-like method: another setting \/ Uptempo Stone method \/ Displacing a jazz groove  \/ Cut time funk method: two-measure grooves \/ EZ cut time funk method  2-3-4 method \/ Three street beats by Fred Staehle \/ New Orleans street beat \u2013 Stone method \/ New Orleans street beat \u2013 Reed method \/ Basic linear phrases in 4-4 \/ Basic linear phrases in 3-4 \/ Orchestrations of a figure \u2013 Groove Elation \/ Basic funk with mixed stickings \/ Basic funk ideas: four iterations  \/ Basic funk ideas: four iterations in 6-8 \/ Dahlgren & Fine linear funk method \/ Bossa and Samba bass drum workout \/ Tom moves for Pages o’ coordination \/ Page o’ coordination: Afro 6-8 \u2013 6-4 feel \/ POC: Afro 6-8 \u2013 across the barline \/ POC: \u201cAfro blues\u201d bell pattern \/ POC: Ventimiglia riff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus transcriptions of: Billy Higgins, Joe Chambers, Airto, Connie Kay, Elvin Jones, Omar Hakim, Zigaboo Modeliste, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jeff Porcaro, John Guerin, Gerry Brown, James Black, Ndugu Leon Chancler, more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2015<\/a><\/strong> – 102 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents include: Natural-sticking timing exercise \/ Paradiddle inversion exercise \/ Stick Control in 3-4 \u2013 flamacues \/ Snare drum workout in 6-8 \u2013 flamacues \/ Survival Chops – triplets in 5-4 \/ Snare drum workout in 5-4 – 8th notes \/ Quarternoteism \/ Basic half time feel funk grooves \/ Half time feel funk – basic method, intermediate, advanced methods \/ Rock beats displaced \/ Page o’ coordination – funk \/ Rock beats in 5-4 \/ Brazilian 3, 5, and 7 \/ Maiden Voyage figure – Reed method \/ Cantaloupe Island – figure and fills \/ Your own \u201cglitch\u201d beat \/ Getting around the drums  \/ Jazz method with varying cymbal rhythm \/ Assembling a basic Elvin waltz \/ Chaffee patterns in 3-4 \/ Page o’ coordination: overlapping hands \/ Mozambique variations \/ POC: anticipations \/ POC: Ahmad’s vamp \/ POC: Latin 3 \/ POC: Afro 6 – Guiro \/ POC: Igbo grooves for drumset \/ Chaffee linear patterns in 5-4, mixed rhythm \/ Basic syncopation rhythms in 7-4 \/ Page o’ coordination: 7-4 \/ Chaffee linear patterns in 7-4, mixed rhythm \/ Stick Control in 7-8 \/ Basic 7-8 rhythms \/ Page o’ coordination: Zorn 7-8 \/ Zorn 7-8 – Stone method \/ RLF in 7-8 \/ Dahlgren & Fine in 7-8 \/ 7-8 paradiddles \/ Flam accents in 7-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus transcriptions of: Billy Higgins, Frankie Dunlop,  Elvin Jones,  Ed Blackwell,  Roy Haynes, Joey Baron, Tony Williams,  Airto, Kenny Clarke, Al Foster, Famoudou Don Moye, more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014<\/a><\/strong> – 84 pages
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\nBrazilian rhythms \/ Partido Alto variations \/ Syncopation patterns in 3\/4 time \/  10-stroke rolls \/ Three Camps in first inversion paradiddles \/ Philly Joe three-beat lick \/ Survival chops: 16ths and triplets in 3\/4 time \/ Snare drum workout in 6\/8 time \/ Snare drum workout in 2\/4 time \/ Stick Control on the drums \/ Reed interpretation: fast within slow \/ Page o’ coordination: hihat splash \/ POC: syncopated ride \/ POC: Out Of This World \/ Jazz coordination \/ POC: Elvin waltz inverted feet \/ POC: Elvin waltz with 16th notes \/ POC: metric modulation \/ POC: Elvin waltz, in 4\/4 \/ POC: 5\/4 with tie \/ Generic Latin method using Reed \/ Clave lock \u2014 exercises for soloing over clave \/ Son Clave basic coordination \/ Rumba Clave basic coordination \/ POC: Afro 6\/8 with feet in 3\/4 \/ POC: Afro 6\/8 \u2014 middle of the triplet \/ POC: 6\/8 Rumba Clave \u2014 hard feet \/ Straight 8th notes within Afro 6\/8 \/ Todd’s \u201cAfrican\u201d lick \/ POC: Afro 9\/8 \/ Todd’s tom tom thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus transcriptions of: Tony Williams, Ed Blackwell, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts,  Ringo Starr, Dannie Richmond, John Guerin, Rick Marotta, more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2013<\/a><\/strong> – 122 pages
\nContents include: Crossing accents \/ Flam accent\/flam drag exercise \/ Paradiddle-diddles for jazz coordination \/ Survival chops: right hand lead \/ Page of six-stroke rolls \/ Survival chops: cymbal and bass drum patterns \/ Applying Todd’s 11-note lick \/ Around the drums with 8th notes \/ More rock beats using Syncopation \/ Tiki Fulwood’s 32nds \/ Key to right hand-accented triplets \/ Exercises for developing a common Reed application \/ Exercises for bass drum punctuations in jazz while feathering \/ Page o’ coordination: an Elvin Jones-like phrase in 4\/4 \/ How to play Pent-Up House by Sonny Rollins \/ How to play Jordu by Clifford Brown \/ How to play Stablemates by Benny Golson \/ A page of polyrhythms \/ Playing meter-within-meter: introduction \/ Getting started with meter-within-meter \/ More meter-within-meter phrases \/ Page o’ coordination: 2:3 metric modulation, part 1 \/ Cracking 5\/4: ostinatos \/ Page o’ coordination: basic, fairly hip 5\/4 \/ Page o’ coordination: another 5\/4 \/ Page o’ coordination: phrasing across the barline in 5\/4 \/ Page o’ coordination: Elvin-like 5\/4 \/ Page o’ coordination: 5\/8+5\/8 \/ Clave capers – getting the triplet pull \/ Developing some Afro-Cuban bell patterns \/ Afro 6\/8 basics \/ Afro 6\/8 coordination exercise \/ Page o’ coordination: Afro 6\/8 \u2014 funk style \/ Page o’ coordination: Afro 6\/8 \u2014 bass drum variation \/ Page o’ coordination: Afro 6\/8 \u2014 clave in RH \/ Page o’ coordination: Afro 6\/8 \u2014 clave in LH \/ Page o’ coordination: Songo \/ Page o’ coordination: Songo with Son Clave in left foot \/ Page of Mozambique \/ Page of Guaguanco \/ A page of Brazilian rhythms \/ Bass drum variations for Bossa Nova \/ Another Samba builder \/ Drum chart: Salve a Mocidade \/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus transcriptions of: Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell, Philly Joe Jones, Frankie Dunlop, Art Blakey, Jon Christensen, Ralph Humphrey, Al Jackson,  Greg Errico, Roger Hawkins, Milton Banana, more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2011 – Transcriptions<\/a>  <\/strong>– 139 pages
\nIncludes transcriptions of Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jack Dejohnette, Roy Haynes, Zigaboo Modeliste, Ringo Starr, Frankie Dunlop, James Gadson, Paul Motian, Philly Joe Jones, Pete La Roca, Papa Jo Jones, Andy Newmark, Jim Gordon, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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