Casey Scheuerell
Berklee Jazz Drums
Play jazz drums with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the tradition of Alan Dawson and other Berklee luminaries of drum education
This approach to jazz drumming presents a unique blend of four-way coordination, comping vocabulary, and soling/improvisation concepts, infused with world rhythms. It will help you to develop a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz drums, and to develop your own personal sound and style
Learn to
Deepen your sense of swing and overall timing
Understand the ride-cymbal's critical roll in jazz time-keeping
Apply the rudimentary language of jazz
Develop your independence, via some of the great Alan Dawson signature exercises and The Rudimental Ritual
Play brushes and brush patterns
Improvise captivating drum set solos
Incorporate world rhythms into jazz
Read and interpret drum charts
Casey Scheuerell is a professor of percussion at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught thousands of drummers since 1993. He has recorded and/or performed with many of the industry's most respected artists, including Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty and many others. He is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music, where he studied with Alan Dawson and Gary Chaffee
150pages, book with online audio
Berklee Press/Hal Leonard