XAVI REIJA-The Sound Of The Earth 3

XAVI REIJA – The Sound Of The Earth

XAVI REIJA
extraordinaire Catalan drummer’s
“The Sound Of The Earth”
by MoonJune

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XAVI REIJA drums
TONY LEVIN bass guitar, upright bas, stick
DUSAN JEVTOVIC guitar
MARKUS REUTER touch guitar

“The Sound of the Earth I” brings to mind David Sylvian’s post-Japan near ambient instrumental excursions where space and pause became as integral to the “composition as place” as his trusty Prophet 5. Once this world is created, and with a decidedly Beckian vibe (Jeff, that is), Dusan wrings from the neck of his guitar, some of the most emotive broken phrases and edited soulful voicings.

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Mike Portnoy – Power Drunk Majesty

Mike Portnoy Discusses Drumming On
“Volume II – Power Drunk Majesty”

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METAL ALLEGIANCE began as a celebration of heavy metal, powered by the almost tribal bond shared between the extreme music community‘s most revered trailblazers, armed with a list of contributors onstage (and off) that read like a Wikipedia entry on the genre itself. Their upcoming, sophomore album, »Volume II – Power Drunk Majesty«, will be released via Nuclear Blast Entertainment on September 7th, 2018.

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Time- Functional-Coordination DeiLazzaretti

Time & Fundional Coordination

Time & Fundional Coordination
Maurizio Dei Lazzaretti

Time- Functional-Coordination DeiLazzaretti

Time & Functional Coordination, l’ennesimo libro carico di passione del batterista salentino noto per le sue esibizioni con l’orchestra del Festival di Sanremo dal 2001, collaboratore dei più importanti artisti italiani, ma altrettanto passionario nelle lezioni private nel suo studio.

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Pete Lockett – Symmetrical Stickings

Symmetrical Stickings
Pete Lockett takes a deep dive into paradiddle grooves

PeteLocket SymmetricalSticking

In this book, Symmetrical Stickings, Pete Lockett takes a deep dive into paradiddle grooves. Starting with the very basic paradiddle form, he progresses with exercises and ideas in 4/4, 6/8, 5/4, and finally 7/4. In all, there are 68 pages full of new exercises, patterns and concepts!

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Complete Double Bass Drumming Explained

Complete Double Bass Drumming Explained
The Reference and The Workbook Revised, Expanded, & Updated

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The Complete Double Bass Drumming Explained, by Ryan Bloom, is a combined and revised print edition of two previously available ebooks, Double Bass Drumming Explained: A Comprehensive Reference on the Art and Science of Double Bass and Double Bass Drumming Explained Part 2: The Workbook.

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Blues For Tony

“Blues For Tony” – Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman

“Blues For Tony” – Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman (2cd)
from MoonJune Records

Blues For Tony

Reuniting for a fall 2006 tour paying tribute to time spent in the mid-’70s fusion juggernaut, The New Tony Williams Lifetime, guitarist Allan Holdsworth and keyboardist Alan Pasqua recruited iconic figures bassist Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets) and drummer Chad Wackerman (Zappa; Holdsworth) for an incredible musical salute. 

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CreativeDevelopment ClausThylstrup

Creative Development

Creative Development
A book designed to unleash your pattern and fills creativity!

CreativeDevelopment ClausThylstrup

A 60-page eBook featuring 60 minutes of video lessons and examples.

With this book Claus Thylstrup reinterprets some standard rudiments, increases your vocabulary and adds new ideas to your drumming. A fantastic source for every drummer, advanced and intermediate, for a creative playing. 

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Groove Alchemy – Stanton Moore

Groove Alchemy | Stanton Moore
Now available in one complete package containing Book, Video and Audio!

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In this book/video/audio package, Stanton Moore presents transcriptions and performances of some of the most important drum grooves in history, breaks them down to their basic elements, describes the way they developed, and shows you how to learn from the past and develop your own complete vocabulary for creating new funk grooves and patterns.
There is a unique download code provided in this book for streaming or downloading every musical example, recorded by Stanton, showing how each is played. The entire Groove Alchemy DVD is also included online, for streaming and downloading. This package contains over 600 audio examples as well as 3 hours of video examples all online for you to stream or download.

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