Exploring Your Creativity on the Drumset

Mark Guiliana

Do you ask yourself sometimes:

• How do you come up with such creative parts?
• How do you seem to bend and modulate the time in your grooves and fills?
• How did you get so comfortable switching and changing rhythmic rates in your playing?
• What did you practice to become such a great improviser?
• How do I find my own voice and style?

Mark presents a complete system to answer these questions. The book follows a system entitled D.R.O.P.:

• Dynamics - how soft or how loud you are playing
• Rate - Devide the time in 2,3, 4 or 6 beats
• Orchestration - How to spread the learned reads over your drumset
• Phrasing - Making prashes with the previuous learned stuff

Adding to this package is live footage of Mark playing with two of his longtime collaborators, Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Jason Lindner (keys). Having played together for years, these three musicians most recently formed the rhythm section for David Bowie's final album, Blackstar. Watch Mark interact with these world-class musicians in electric and acoustic settings as they apply Mark's concepts in inspiring performances.

The book comes packaged with a full-length DVD, and the video is also available for download using a code contained in the book.