Drumming in Flow (book with Video Online)

Publisher: Hudson Music
119 pages with Video
Styles: Conceptual, Technique

Improve your drumming by using specific breathing exercises based on long-established meditation techniques coupled with drumming patterns to teach the focus on the breath

Drumming in Flow will improve your drumming through a focus on breathing, getting you into a zone of relaxation, focus, and peak performance on a consistent basis.

Author Ray Levier provides specific breathing exercises based on long-established meditation techniques coupled with drumming patterns to teach the focus on the breath. LeVier then delves into modern drum set vocabulary with a fun, exciting and musical series of concepts that can be applied to all styles. These include permutations, linear concepts, voicings, and advanced syncopations, the likes of which can be heard in the playing of Keith Carlock, Vinnie Colaiuta, and others.

The book comes with extensive video demonstrations of the examples.

“This book has unique insights into how to make one’s drumming both more solid and more relaxed. His focus on the connection with the breath is eye-opening. Check it out.” – John Riley