The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming

Need to strengthen you're your your foot that isn't dominant, then this book will help you conquer weak line syndrome, and make your double bass playing improve. It will enhance your syncopations, with both accents, and off beats.

Excellent piece for double bass pedal players who are just starting to get their feet under them (so to speak). The exercises seem like they would be sufficient for any skill level, as they increase in difficulty very quickly. The book has an interesting method that requires you to play the 2nd and 4th 16th notes ("e" and "ah") with your left foot regardless of the pattern laid out in the exercise. Meaning, any double bass pattern that starts with "e" or "ah" will be played left foot lead. This is an interesting concept because I, and probably many drummers, tend to start all bass drum patterns with my right foot, regardless of which note the pattern begins with. Once you wrap your mind around the concept of assigning specific notes to separate feet, it actually made me quite a bit faster, and eliminated the need to play quick doubles with my right (to hit the crash coming out of a double bass pattern, etc.) because I know that the "ah" of any beat will be played with the left foot, and thus I can crash back in on one with my right foot naturally.The book has a good bit of advice in the front for those who care to read it, but after that the book dives straight in to the exercises. I have also really enjoyed the flow of the book thus far. Beginning with a whole section of warm up for two dbl bass notes together, beats with 2 double bass notes together, and fills with 2 bass notes. Then, moving on to 3 double bass notes consecutively, etc. The book flows smoothly, and the exercises are challenging but do-able. I have found myself unable to put this book down. The first time you get that smooth, but powerful flurry of double bass notes and it sounds great within the beat is a great feeling.

Useful and well written. Publishing error - the bottom of page 70 is cut off.

The book has a lot of really good words of wisdom and the few things that is signature to the authors mindset of how to play the drums etc. But there is so much fluff like it was being taught to a complete beginner of drums when the moral of the book is to that double bass is supposed to excel an already complete drummer( which should by now be able to have a somewhat independent left and right foot) So weave around what you already know. I got this book because I wanted to fill in all of the blanks of double bass drumming that I had formed, in other words I wanted to see what I had been missing and honestly see a published point of view rather than my own and every other metal drummer that speaks english on youtube.This book is hard to pinpoint what exactly its about because it goes from how to step on a pedal to using double bass to supplement your musical style(advanced big musician stuff) in a few pages. Its not a big book. It has value for every drummer in it. This book will advance your playing abilities.Drummers if you want to know how to play 16th note triplets at 250 bpm, this book isn't going to tell you how to do that. Go back to you tube.

Purchased this used book for only $4. Has some notes written in the first few lessons (obviously from an instructor), but other than that, the book is in great condition and a “must have” for all the drummers wanting to take their double bass chops to another level.

This book is a superb, and very structured approach to double bass. It keeps the hand stuff simple (for the most part), so you can focus on your feet. The progression in difficulty of the exercises is well-suited to any double bass new-comer - up until the last couple sections, where it curves upwards exponentially into odd-groupings and some tight, technical, exchanges between the handsies and feetsies, which might leave you scratching your head with the bead of your drumstick.A word of warning: Double bass precision and speed can't be developed overnight (Really? Thanks for the heads up). Don't rush through the exercises at the beginning of the book. As simple as they may seem, they provide an excellent opportunity to develop chops and stamina (at least with standard 16th notes. The early exercises don't touch on 16th note triplets, which, of course, are awesome, and about as metal as it gets).

I have played drums for over 20 years and 2-4 gigs a week for the past 5 years in various bands. Never needed double bassdrum. But I found a nice pedal that was on sale and decided to check it out.This book is well written with plenty of exercises to get the coordination going AND lotsa of TASTEFUL examples of using double bass drum. I am glad i gound this and can see why it is one of Modern Drummers must have books! As long as you have basic reading you should be able to get at it prettu quickly. I wish there was audio to go along with it. but the book does not cost much either.

If you had to buy one double bass book...this would be the one. the think that I like like about this book is the way that it groups topics. easy to progressively harder, duple and triple groupings and then how they can be applied within different contexts on feels. (this is where the real value is) It is a book that I wish I had 15 years ago when I started playing double bass. This book will give you the tools to develop the use of double bass in a musical, and creative way.

You dont find many books specifically dedicated to the subject matter, very easy to follow, nice and informative book.

Lo recomiendo!!!!Muy simple y fácil de entender, la progresión del metodo esta muy bien pensada, te lleva de lo simple y la dificultad va incrementando de poco a poco, al grado que cuando menos lo esperas ya estas ejecutando muy bien y a niveles altos!!!!

The excercises in this book will certainly improved the skills of anybody who practices them. The plastic comb on the side helps a lot and makes it very practical. As the title says it is a Encyclopedia for double bass drumming

Awsome book, good structure for learning or adapting to double bass. If doing either of those buy this book!

一見簡単に見えますがかなり難しいです。左足の強化にすごく役に立ちます。これをすればトーマスラングのようなプレイも夢じゃないように思えます。