Resources
A short list. Everything here is either free or a standard text, and each entry says what it is actually good for.
Books
| Book | Good for |
|---|---|
| Stick Control — George Lawrence Stone | Hand evenness. Not grooves; the sticking patterns that make grooves possible. A page a day is plenty. |
| Syncopation — Ted Reed | Reading rhythm. Its melodies get used as fills, kick patterns and comping for decades after you buy it. |
| The New Breed — Gary Chester | Limb independence, once the basic grooves are solid. Hard, and honest about it. |
Elsewhere in this site
- Western theory — rhythm for note values and time signatures written out.
- Madal beats and tabla taals: the same counting, a different tradition, and much longer cycles than 4/4.
- Bass grooves — the other half of a rhythm section. The kick and the bass line are one part played by two people.
- Backing band to play a groove against chords.
Sample credits
The kit is built from MuldjordKit by Lars Muldjord, in the FreePats stereo edition, under CC BY 4.0. The licence asks for this credit in these words:
Drum samples provided by DrumGizmo.org.
Seventeen single hits were selected from the kit's velocity layers and
converted to mono mp3. Full detail, including which layer became which voice
and why the levels were left alone, is in samples/CREDITS.md and in
scripts/build_samples.py.