Features:

No other ensemble is so readily identified with jazz music than the big band. Every component, from the saxes to the brass and rhythm sections, has drawn audiences for over a century with high-energy hits, lush ballad textures, and toe-tapping rhythms. The vehicle for the groove of the band lies with the drums, which dictates the intensity, drive, and feel of the entire band by drawing on a large arsenal of time-keeping tools.
In this book, acclaimed Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer, composer, educator, and producer Ulysses Owens Jr. (Christian McBride, Gregory Porter, Ted Nash, Wynton Marsalis, and many others) explains how to authentically support a jazz big band with authority, confidence, and finesse.
Features:

The difference between combo versus big band drumming

Standard and modern big band grooves

Big band chart vocabulary

Orchestrating on the drum kit

Choosing the right gear

Auditioning for high school and college big bands

Plus, we have 15 recreated drum charts that Ulysses used to play on the UOJ Big Band (Rising Star Large Ensemble 2022, DownBeat magazine) release Soul Conversations! In addition to this, many of the exercises in the book feature accompanying audio tracks with Ulysses himself demonstrating the grooves and patterns you'll learn. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code in each book. It includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right - available exclusively from Hal Leonard.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What Is Big Band?
• Chapter 2: Necessary Techniques to Command Your Instrument
• Chapter 3: Standard Big Band Grooves to Learn
• Chapter 4: Modern Big Band Grooves to Learn
• Chapter 5: Combo vs. Big Band Playing
• Chapter 6: Big Band Fills to Learn
• Chapter 7: Soloing in the Big Band
• Chapter 8: What Is a Big Band Chart
• Chapter 9: Chart Vocabulary
• Chapter 10: Steps to Big Band Chart Mastery
• Chapter 11: Listening to the Band
• Chapter 12: While Reading the Chart
• Chapter 13: Arranging and Orchestration 101 Chapter 14: Confidence with the Big Band
• Chapter 15: Big Band Playlist
• Chapter 16: Choosing the Right Gear
• Chapter 17: Auditioning for Ensembles
• Chapter 18: Recording with a Big Band
• Chapter 19: Playing the Gig
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author

Catalog:	01062749
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Ulysses Owens Jr.
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Voicing:	Drum Sets
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Pages:	112