Product Description: In The Joy of Six, Dworsky adapts African and Afro-Cuban polyrhythms to the keyboard in a world-beat classical style. At the heart of the book are four beautiful solo pieces designed to teach different rhythms. Each piece is covered in a separate lesson, where it's broken down into bite-sized patterns that start easy and gradually get more difficult, designed to lead you step-by-step into the magical world of 6/8 time...read more

Product Description: This book is for advanced hand drummers who want to play complex solos using simple sequences of hand strokes. Whether you play Djembe, conga, or ashiko, the practical hand-pattern strategies explained here will help you get the most out of your hands with the least amount of effort...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Unlike any other how-to-play book available, this book's method is based on a style of playing called "linear drumming," which means playing one note at a time. Instead of having to learn separate parts for hands and feet and then layering them on top of each other, the student only needs to learn a single pattern that moves note by note from limb to limb...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A musician's guide to understanding and improvising with rhythm. This book is a road map to rhythm for any musician. It's for guitar players intrigued by the rhythms of world music. It's for keyboard players who've studied scales and chords and now want to study rhythm in a systematic way...read more