Description

The recipient of the Drummies! 2014 Best Drumming Book Award, Big Band Drumming Fill-osophy, provides a thorough methodology for executing and understanding fills within a big band context. Through guidance on interpreting section and ensemble figures, Steve Fidyk and Dave Black offer extensive insights that will enhance a drummer's capacity to swiftly and effortlessly identify one-, two-, and four-bar section/ensemble figures. The accompanying MP3 CD features more than 75 reference and play-along examples derived from actual drum charts. These examples have been looped or repeated for comprehensive study. Big Band Drumming Fill-osophy is destined to be an essential resource for mastering the interpretation and performance of big band drum fills.

Songs / Content

• Introduction
• About the MP3 CD
• Acknowledgments
• Drumset Notation Key
• Part 1: Fill Concepts and Primer Practice Material
• Keep the Common Tone: Rhythmic Ideas That Promote Consistency
• Fill Notation
• Fill Articulation
• Suggested Fill?
• Fills in Time: Interpreting and Connecting Section Figures
• Clarity Is King!
• Fill Development (Fill-netics)
• Dynamics . . . Not All Drum Fills Are Loud!
• Targeting and Interpreting Ensemble Figures
• Instrumental Primer Target Points
• One-, Two-, and Four-Bar Phrases
• Ways to Practice Fill Transcriptions
• Solo Fills
• Ensemble "Shout Chorus" Solos
• Play-Along Tracks
• Part 2: Fill-in-terpretation in Context
• Intro Fill-in-terpretation
• Outro Fill-in-tepretation
• Fill-in-terpretation in Support of the Melody
• Phrases That Frame the Solo Section
• Fill-in-terpretation with Backgrounds
• Shout Chorus Fill-in-terpretation
• Ensemble Figures with Drum Solos
• Fill-in-spiration Selected Discography
• About the Authors