# Resources

## Books

- **Stick Control** (Stone) — hand evenness. Not grooves; the sticking that makes
  grooves possible. A page a day is plenty.
- **Syncopation** (Reed) — reading rhythm. Its melodies get reused as fills, kick
  patterns and comping for decades.
- **The New Breed** (Chester) — limb independence once the basics are solid. Hard.

## Elsewhere on this site

- /theory/western/#rhythm — note values and time signatures
- /madal/beats.html and /tabla/taals.html — same counting, different tradition,
  much longer cycles
- /bass/grooves.html — the kick and the bass line are one part played by two people
- /tools/backing.html — play a groove against chords

## Sample credits

MuldjordKit by Lars Muldjord, FreePats stereo edition, CC BY 4.0.

> Drum samples provided by DrumGizmo.org.

Seventeen hits selected from the kit's velocity layers, converted to mono mp3.
Detail in samples/CREDITS.md and scripts/build_samples.py.