Groove Essentials

Tommy Igoe

General Info

Year: 2005
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Hudson
Cost: Book Cost - $0.00   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Chapters

Introduction
How this Book Works
What if you don't Read Music
What about Fills and Solos?
About the Charts
About the Songs
Chapter I: ROCK Grooves
Chapter II: FUNK Grooves
Chapter III: R&B and HIP-HOP Grooves
Chapter IV: JAZZ Grooves
Chapter V: WORLD and SPECIALTY Grooves
Chapter VI: GLOBAL TOURS
Extra Tracks
About the Disc
After the Music Fades...
I'd like to Thank the Academy...

Reviews

Student Reviews

Groove Essentials for the 21st-Century Drummer is full of grooves from many different musical backgrounds. Each groove has a slow, and a fast chart along with a CD track to accompany them. The grooves feature 4 things, the actual groove, variations on the groove, a written-out chart to play along with on the CD, and an explanation by Tommy Igoe on each specific groove, including aspects you shouldn’t take lightly, and challenges that each groove presents. While this book doubles almost as a dictionary, any drummer that is wanting to create a genuine groove for some of the more ethnic/authentic music, they probably shouldn’t use a copy & paste groove from this book, however, they will hold up on their own. The Global Tours include long charts to play along with, some of them are even 20 minutes. This is a very good book every drummer should have.
Trevor Landreth; Emporia State University

Works for Percussion by this Author

Igoe, Tommy. Groove Essentials. Briarcliff, NY: Hudson Music, 2005