Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset: Book & Online Audio (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective Series)

This book is great if you want to learn about some of the history about Brazilian rhythms, the instruments used to play them, and the historical purposes of them, along with historical people (such as the inventors of some of the included rhythms). This book takes those rhythms and translates them to the drumset for you to play. I highly recommend this book for musicians who are interested in complex but fun drumset/music rhythms because they are not easy but they are fun. I don't recommend it for beginner players and readers - it's quite intermediate to advanced. I hope this helps.

The 1st book didnt come with cd as advertised, very very dissapointed, i ordered twice and the last one came with cd. Apparently, the first one was the old version but the book has so much better look than the one that came with the cd.

It explains all of the main stream Brazilian rhythms and provides CD tracks with the real guys playing them.

Excellent book. I always felt I played okay but watered-down versions of samba and bossa nova rhythms on the drum set. I bought this book hoping it would give me a broader overview of Brazilian rhythms and a way to adopt them for the drum set. I'm extremely happy with it. The book and CD covers the fundamental rhythms and guides you into playing them on the drum set. Not overly technical at all, and the examples they write out help you play the grooves right away. Thankfully, it's not a book focused on building chops—the focus is on playing music. Wonderful book, I recommend it to all drummers who want to know more about these beautiful rhythms.

This book is for anyone interested in Brazilian music, a solid and extremely valuable contribution to all musicians ; This book is plenty of great and helpful informations from Samba, Partido Alto, bossa Nova, Baiao, Caterete, Maracatu, Marcha, Frevo ... to History's Brazil ( Religious music, ritual, carnaval ... ) or traditional musical instruments. At the end of the book, you can find a glossary, discography and bibliography wich are very interesting ; It will help you to understand the complexity of Brazilians rhythms and explain the influences of the musical history. The book is clear, nice, beautiful, not too big and complicated to understand, with 2 CDs for listening the differents paterns, highly recommended ! I enjoy it every day ! Emilio Leroy ( France - Dordogne ).

The whole series of Drummer's Collective books are awesome. A teacher once told me: "If you want to become a better player learn jazz and latin beats and music." That statement 20-some-odd years ago sent me on a great journey to figure out what that meant, and how to learn these amazing rhythms. Working through this book won't only help with jazz and latin though - it is something that can be carried over into any style and used creatively to take music in new directions. Learning the traditional patterns though can't be stressed enough versus just emulating similar patterns based off of them.

I have trouble generating ideas of Latin genres due to being unexposed to it's music and culture, but this book is helping me alot when I am struggling with an improvisation component in an upcoming music exam. I have been playing straight rock beats for most of my years on the kit, so this book is a real savior. The book and CDs will be my inspiration from now on.

This is a Great book to have and study if your going to play different styles of music!! I have studied this book over, and over and there's always something new I learn or relearn every time!! As a musician / drummer, I highly recommend this product. Thank You.

Clear & concise - if you want to learn Brazilian drum rhythms this is THE book

the book is a Christmas present - not yet opened.

Nur dem Begnadeten reicht für die Erarbeitung dieses Materials ein Leben ...üben, üben, lustvoll üben ... und mit viel Geduld.

E' scritto da un grande batterista brasiliano, è spiegato bene, anche i cd di corredo sono ben chiari ed ogni esercizio del libro è ben sincronizzato con l'audio,consigliato a tutti

Si tu cherchez un methode por jouer des differents rythms brazilian, samba, bossa-nova, etc... t'as tout ici. Et tu vas aussi comprendre comme ces rythmes sont jouées avec des instuments traditionnels du Brazil, et aussi comnprende sa culture.