Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer's Guide to Playing Backbeats on 1 & 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470615079)

Habits and traditions are often hard to change, but discovering new and creative ways of rearranging and rethinking established norms is what distinguishes a great drummer and provides endless challenge and possibilities. Turn the Beat Around breaks decades-old routine by examining backbeats in a whole new light, asking the questions: Why are backbeats always played on beats 2 & 4? and What about playing them on beats 1 & 3? By delving into this inquiry, Paul Wertico provides drummers with innovative ways of expanding groove vocabulary, solidifying time, and mastering coordination and limb independence. Wertico has even coined a new word for these types of reversed beats---frontbeats.

Author: Paul Wertico
ISBN-10: 147061507X
ISBN-13: 9781470615079
Publisher: Alfred Music
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2017
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 11.90w x 0.30d