Yoron Israel – Drum Set Fundamentals
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Gain a solid foundation in drum set performance and musicianship with Drum Set Fundamentals. The course explores five main topics
Drum Set Fundamentals
Gain a solid foundation in drum set performance and musicianship with Drum Set Fundamentals. The course explores five main topics: musicianship, hand-to-hand technique, snare drum reading, drum set coordination, and repertoire development, with each week becoming increasingly more challenging.
The course starts with teaching the basics, such as the concept of time, how to develop proper grip, playing area, and sound, and how to achieve balance and evenness between your hands. You will perform helpful strengthening and dexterity exercises and explore drum rudiments, including the double stroke roll, single stroke roll, paradiddle, double paradiddle, triple paradiddle, drag, drag paradiddle #1, flam, and flam accent. You will develop basic snare drum reading skills and how to interpret drum set charts, including various time signatures such as 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, 12/8, 6/8, 9/8, and 5/4. The course moves on to topics related to two-, three-, and four-way coordination, touch, balance, dynamics, and shadings in the context of common groove patterns found in Rhythm and Blues, Pop-Rock, Funk, Rock, Jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music.
Throughout the course, you will be exposed to a wide variety of drumming examples from artists such as Journey, Parliament, The Steve Miller Band, Toto, James Brown, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Airto Moreira, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Mongo Santamaria, and Hermeto Pascoal. The goal of the course is to enable you to play with more confidence, musicianship, and overall success, and to serve as a natural springboard for study into more specific areas of drum set and percussion study. The techniques, methods, and concepts presented in the course have been developed and refined for over 25 years by course author Yoron Israel, through his extensive teaching, performing, and recording experiences.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand basic time
- Develop proper grip, playing area, and sound
- Improve the balance and evenness between your hands
- Play drum rudiments, including the double stroke roll, single stroke roll, paradiddle, double paradiddle, triple paradiddle, drag, drag paradiddle #1, flam, and flam accent
- Develop basic snare drum reading skills
- Interpret drum set charts
- Improve your overall coordination, touch, and dynamics
- Play common groove patterns found in Rhythm and Blues, Pop-Rock, Funk, Rock, Jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music
- Play patterns in various time signatures, including 4/4/, 2/4, 3/4, 12/8, 6/8, 9/8, and 5/4
Syllabus
Lesson 1 The Basics
Lesson 2 The Basics 2
Lesson 3 Table of Time
Lesson 4 Single Stroke Roll
Lesson 5 Bossa Nova
Lesson 6 Samba
Lesson 7 Shuffling It
Lesson 8 Swinging
Lesson 9 Compound Meter
Lesson 10 Grooves in Three
Lesson 11 Odd Times
Lesson 12 Timely Shifts
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Theory 101 or equivalent knowledge and experience, in addition to at least one year of playing experience is required. You should have a location for practicing regularly. You should have some understanding of common note values for reading music, be able to perform simple grooves on your instrument with adequate sound production, and have physical capabilities on the instrument necessary to record weekly homework assignments.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Hardware Requirements
- Acoustic or electronic drum kit
- 12″ Evans Real Feel Practice Pad
- 1 pair of medium sized (5A, 5B, 2A, etc.) matched drumsticks
- Metronome (for an online version, see http://www.metronomeonline.com)
- Audio interface (unless you are using an electronic drum kit/drum brain connected to computer via USB/MIDI)
- Microphone (unless you are using an electronic drum kit/drum brain for assignments), such as a Samson C01, Shure SM57, or Shure SM58, along with mic stand
- Music stand
- Optional: CD/MP3 player (separate from computer) and mixer
- Optional for those using electronic drum kits: CD/MP3 player (separate from computer) and drum brain
- Optional: isolation headphones, such as Vic Firth’s SIH1 Drummer’s Headphones
Students are required to record video for assignments. You can use your smartphone, digital camera, or webcam to do this. If you do not already have a preferred video software, you can use the built-in recorder tool within your assignment post. You can play the backing track through your speakers as you record and the microphone will pick up both the guitar (acoustic or through an amp) and the track as you play along.
General Course Requirements
Below are the minimum requirements to access the course environment and participate in live chats. Please make sure to also check the Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements section above, and ensure your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements for all software needed for your course.
Mac Users
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher
PC Users
- Windows 7 or higher
All Users
- Latest version of Google Chrome
- Zoom meeting software (available in the course when joining your first chat)
- Webcam
- Speakers or headphones
- External or internal Microphone
- Broadband Internet connection
Instructors
Author & Instructor
Yoron Israel is a drummer, percussionist, composer, band leader, and educator. He is the chair and professor of the Percussion department at Berklee College of Music. He has performed and/or recorded with such notable artists as Otis Clay, Shirley Caesar, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Abbey Lincoln, Ahmad Jamal, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutchinson, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton, Grover Washington, Freddie Cole, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Pharoah Sanders, David “Fathead” Newman, Red Holloway, Larry Coryell, Doctor Lonnie Smith, Bennie Wallace, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Vanessa Rubin, Kevin Mahogany, Roy Hargrove, Bill Mays, James Williams, Cyrus Chestnut, and Joshua Redman.
As a leader, Israel has recorded four albums—Basic Traneing, Chicago, Live at the Blue Note, and A Gift for You—and is now working on a fifth. Basic Traneing reached number 3 on the National Jazz chart in 2004. His projects include the trio Organic with organist Kyle Koehler and guitarist Ed Cherry, his quintet Connection with vibraphonist Bryan Carrott, guitarist Ed Cherry, and bassist Sean Conly, and the newly formed Boston band High Standards. He tours regularly with Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, in addition to performing and recording in the New England area with artists such as Abraham Laboriel, Eddie Gomez, Frank Morgan, Joanne Brackeen, Eliane Elias, Larry Goldings, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jane Ira Bloom, Clark Terry, Joey DeFrancesco, The Macanda Project, Laszlo Gardony, Stan Strickland, Donna McElroy, Gabrielle Goodman, Shawn Monterro, and Lance Bryant.
Israel’s influences and experiences range from jazz to world styles, gospel, contemporary Christian, funk, r&b, and orchestral music. He received a bachelor’s degree in music from Roosevelt University in 1986 and a master’s degree in music from Rutgers University in 1997. He has been recognized in publications such as Jazz.com, Variety, Jazz Improv Magazine, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Modern Drummer, Stick It, and Percussive Notes, among others. Israel is the author of the educational DVD Creative Jazz Improvisation for Drum Set, published by Hal Leonard and Berklee Press. He was formerly on the faculty at Rutgers University, William Paterson University, and Mannes New School, and he continues to teach privately and conduct clinics, workshops, residencies, and music camps throughout the world.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Drum Set Fundamentals can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
- Drums Professional Certificate
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