Drum Set Warm Ups. Essential Exercises for Improving Technique

Customer Reviews

Excellent exercises for coordination

2008-05-31
Simply put, I love this book. I do some of the exercises for about 15-20 minutes before every practice and every gig, and it's exactly like doing calisthenics before a workout. It gets all the limbs loosened up and really improves coordination. No matter what type of music you play, and regardless of your skill level, this book is for everyone. My advice is to add it to your library.

WOW!!!

2008-03-03
This book will help drummers of ALL skill levels. If you want to improve your speed, timing, coordination, and just all around technique, this will get you to where you want to be. I don't know of any other publication with such a wealth of drumming knowlege for so little money. Rod Morgenstein took drum text books to a new level with this one. A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE A BETTER PLAYER!

Drum Book Review

2007-09-13
My experiance with Amazon service was just great!
I completed the process whithin 10 min and received the item ehead of schedule and in great condition.

Just what I was looking for.

2007-08-03
I am so glad I got this book. It is loaded with exercises to build accuracy, independence, and endurance on the drum kit. And like Joe Morello's Master Studies, you can just flip to a page and work through an exercise or an entire page of exercises. Work through them all and see which ones you need improvement on, or just pick a few to warm up with before playing. It's helped my accuracy in hitting the drum in the middle, my speed and coordination . . . all in a short time. Enjoy!

Highly Recommended - But not for the faint of heart

2007-05-17
Every drummer should have this book in their library. Rod Morgenstein is an incredible drummer, instructor (and human being). This book is the real deal.

I feel this book is for intermediate players and not beginners. Beginners are better off learning new beats and feeling encouraged by being able to keep steady time and grooving to songs. This book isnt about that.

This book disects the drumset and gives you tons of mechanical exercises on how to move around the set with control, dexterity and endurance. Its much more than just licks for warming up actually... its designed to make you a more proficient technician. Once you can play basic beats, this book can help you take your playing and technique to the next level - more control, power and speed.

In contrast to the previous book by Rod which is extremely musical and targetted at beginners, this one is focused on mechanics only and is better suited to intermediate players.

I highly recommend this book!

Fantastic!

2006-01-20
Step away from the practice pad! Legendary drummer Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to limber up your entire body. Features exercises to develop and improve your speed, power, control, coordination, independence, accuracy, endurance and agility. With this book, you'll gain a greater facility and command of the drum set, along with an increased feeling of confidence. "The definitive text for improving technical facility on the drum set." - Ron Spagnardi Editor/Publisher, Modern Drummer

Great Book!!!

2005-11-01
This book is absolutly the best book on the market for developing drum
set technique. It is so much fun to work through the exercises. It takes
practice for these excersises to be put to their full potential but you
will see results fast. I noticed a big improvement in my playing,
especially my drum fills and my speed and accuracy. i have been playing
drums for over 6 years and i have used many drum books in the past, but
none compare to this. i recommend this book to anyone.

Some good rudimentary "warm-ups."

2005-10-06
It's a good book for those just starting out reading music. It has some good snare practice rudiments as well as drum set rudiments and combinations.

for drummers in a marching band..

2005-09-23
This book is mostly exercises for only one drum at a time. This is a good book if you are in a marching band and it appears to be skewed for that. Not a good book for practicing coodination of all the different parts, which is what I needed. The author talks a LOT about practice pads, which many drummers do not use, yet he speaks of them as if everyone does.

Basic Excercises

2005-08-03
Great for beginners, especially in reading notes since repetions are geared to strenghening overall sticking and accuracy, the repetive notes likewise pegs them to memory