Essential Percussion Library

These are some of our favorite and essential PERCUSSION METHOD BOOKS!

Drum Set - Beginning:
     Steve Fidyk, Mel Bay’s Modern Drum Method, Grade 1
     Mark Wessels, A Fresh Approach to Drumset

Drum Set - Rock/General Playing:
     Gary Chester, The New Breed
     Charles Dowd, A Funky Primer
     John Pickering, The Drummer’s Cookbook
     Johny Rabb, Jungle/Drum ‘N’ Bass
     Bobby Rock, Encyclopedia of Groove

Drum Set - Jazz:
     Jim Chapin, Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer
     Peter Erskine, The Erskine Method for Drumset 
     Ted Reed, Syncopation
     John Riley, The Art of Bop Drumming
     D. Scott Williams, The Funky Six

Drum Set - Play-Along:
     Dave Black & Steve Houghton, Drumset 101
     Tommy Igoe, Groove Essentials (1.0 and 2.0)
     Steve Houghton, The Ultimate Drumset Reading Anthology