There is a huge difference between musicians that study Jazz and can play it vs. the other musicians who do not.  

Jazz musicians can easily adapt to Rock, Funk, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, West African, South Indian, Orchestral, and other styles versus the other way around.  A young Rock N’ Roll musician that only plays set parts of Rock songs and arrangements usually finds themselves in a much more limited position to be flexible regarding rhythmic structures, harmonic range, improvisational skills, dynamic range etc.

Jazz will definitely improve a drummer’s understanding of:

• music
• soloing
• listening
• hearing music
• improvising
• and overall musicality

So, study Jazz!  And start here with this first step to your journey. Welcome to Intro to Jazz Drumming Part I.

Studying the exercises presented here will give the students the ability to move on to more advanced studies.  The booklet included will improve your ability to concentrate, read rhythms while keeping time. It will improve your time, coordination, Jazz ride cymbal playing, chart reading and rhythmic interpretation and listening skills.  This package also includes twenty-two audio examples from real musical situations with a real band where I demonstrate the materials presented.  They do work very well.  I practice it, I teach it, I play it and it works!

Here's what you get:

• Downloadable pdf booklet with 10 pages of exercises

• 14 downloadable audio examples from the exercises in the booklet

• 13 downloadable audio examples of Jazz Big Band Drumming

• 9 downloadable audio examples of Jazz Combos