Steve Fidyk: Inside The Big Band Drum Chart

Contents

• Notation and Terminology
• Drum Set Notation
• The Chart Talk Through
• Big Band Forms
• Reading and Interpretation Ideas
• Rhythmic Interpretation1
• Alternate Notation for Time
• Basic Chart Reading Terminology
• Time Keeping Elements
• The Bass Drum
• The Hi-Hat
• The Ride Cymbal
• Swingin' and the Groove (two and four/one and three)
• Articulation Markings and Musical Shape
• Exercises
• Short Articulation Exercise with Quarter Notes
• Short Articulation Exercise with Eighth Notes
• Short Articulation Exercise with Quarters and Eighth Notes
• Long Articulation Exercise
• Long and Short Articulation Combinations Example One
• Long and Short Articulation Combinations Example Two
• Contemporary Interpretation Exercise One
• Contemporary Interpretation Exercise Two
• The Big Band Sound
• Tuning
• Drum Heads
• Cymbals
• Sticks
• Set Up The Band!
• Parallel Motion
• Counter Point
• Connector Material
• Building a Fill Vocabulary for Band Figures
• Figure Connector Study 1
• Figure Connector Study 2
• Figure Connector Study 3
• Figure Connector Study in 3/4
• Figure Connector Study in 5/4
• Trumpet One Phrase Shapes
• Tempo Transition Examples
• Preliminary Charts
• Preliminary Chart 1- Swing
• Preliminary Chart 2- Shuffle
• Preliminary Chart 3- Ballad
• Preliminary Chart 4- Samba
• Preliminary Chart 5- Funk
• Big Band Arrangements with Analysis
• Blaine Street
• Bottom End Shuffle
• Good Night Story
• Swing Open
• Tierrasanta
• People and Places
• Appendix
• Solos and Transcriptions
• Sing Sing Sing
• Skin Deep
• West Side Story
• Drum Solo Breaks
• Ensemble Shout Chorus Transcription Excerpts
• Big Band Drumming Innovators and Innovations
• Interviews
• Big Band Recordings Discography
• Drum Methods Discography