 Authors Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine |
| Review Date: August 12, 2001 |
| Reviewer: Mark Smith, Colorado Springs, Co United States |
| Folks, this book is a gem for drumset development, one of the drum bibles. Exercises are thorough in exploring different permutations of hand and foot rhythmic sequences. Working this book will open up those synaptic nerve paths and program your muscle memory for every possible rhythm pattern. This is the perfect preparation for Gary Chester, Jim Chapin, etc. Even if you don't have drums, you can work this book on the drum pad while tap-dancing your feet on the floor, and you will have a rhythm vocabulary the very first time you sit down at the drums. |
Not really a review -- an explaination...
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| Review Date: January 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Kolton, The Great Northwest |
Most reviews touch on what this book is about, I just want to add what you get
when you get it. Endless permutations of rhythms that break the
standard mold of a "normal" drummer. Forget snare on 2&4 or straight eights
on a hi-hat. The books seeks to break you down from the "normal" rhythms
of the kit and to enable you to hit linearly -- any joint at any time in any
order at any point on the kit.
But...
You don't need a drumset to work it -- all you need are hands and feet to
get better. the "score" is set out in various patterns of LH,RH, LF, RF
(left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot). So if you can't get
enough of drumming, take this on the road with you for vacations, work
trips, whatever and work on breaking the mold. The floor, your knees
and any flat surface in front of you will do for practice.
This is one of the few drum books you can literally practice from
anywhere at anytime with nothing but the book and you. |
Get this one...(period)
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| Review Date: July 19, 2004 |
| Reviewer: R. Bell, Sam Bernardino (Rt. 66) |
| This book has been around for at least 40 years, originally (c)1963. It is a fantastic book, with great exercises, mostly written in eighths and eighth-note tripletts. You won't be three lines into the exercises on page 4 (the beginning page of exercises, after a couple of pages in introduction and explanation), before you will find yourself doing stuff you've only dreamed of doing. You can (should) do the exercises with a metronome, forcing you to count and driving you to keep up and not despair. If you have an auto-stepping metronome, you'll find yourself playing the exercises open-close, and increasing to speeds (from the very beginning) that will surprise you. This book, like G.L. Stone's "Stick Control" is one of the all-time great books, proven many times over. And, wait until you see the pics of Dahlgren and Fine on the inside front cover...you'll never think of yourself as a geek, again. Get this one; you will not regret it--but only if you use it. |
Difficult but beneficial
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| Review Date: June 17, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Ele Rubenstein, Maryland, USA |
| like the title states, this book really helps with coordination and independence. i am not even halfway through the exercises in this book (although i have been working very dilligently) and i am throwing patterns into my playing that i never would have before. the beginning half of this book really covers playing different hand patterns over foot ostinatos, where you filly in the gaps in the foot ostinatos with your hands. its very very difficult at first, it had me very frustrated when my limbs just wouldnt cooperate. but after a couple weeks, i seem to have "broken through a wall", and now i am sight reading many of the exercises cprrectly the first time. another cool thing about it is that dahlgren forms these exercises with clear patterns in mind (i.e, keeping the ostinatos the same but moving them around in the measure and having you reverse your hand patterns over the same ostinatos) so that you could easily come up with similar exercises yourself. i highly reccomend it. |
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| Review Date: October 3, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Daniel T. Bodanis, Mississauga, Ontario Canada |
Having a book like 4-Way Coordination will do nothing for you, unless of course you are willing to invest the time toward mastering each excercise contained within.
It would be impossible to speculate just how far you could go, but your playing will improve exponentially once you have mastered the incredible musicality this book offers!
To effectively and indelibly burn the contents of this book into your musical vocabulary, you would need to spend considerable time playing each bar at 35 mm on the metronome ad infinitum. Then take it up from there!
Rumour has it that this book was the main focus Tony Williams used to develope his incredible playing. Rumour also has it that Tony could effortlessly play each excercise at the highest metronome settings.
One could spend a lifetime working toward discovering every permutation and combination this book offers!
This book is a definite "must have!" Buy it now!
Dan Bodanis
Professional Drummer
wwww.thedanbodanisband.com |
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