by Jost Nickel
Instrumentation: Drumset
This book is for anybody who wants to discover the big, wide world of drum fills. You‘ll find plenty of fill concepts to inspire you and enable you to understand the essential theory behind them so you can create your own drum fills. Step by step, Jost introduces rhythmic concepts that can be used universally on different levels and in every musical situation. He presents orchestration ideas, phrasings, and exercises focusing on dynamics and accents. He shows the different subdivisions that are essential for drum-fill playing and fills for binary and ternary grooves such as shuffles. Ideas on switch & path orchestration, diddle kicks, and clockwise & counterclockwise playing will enrich your drumming, as will step–hit–hi-hat, hand & foot rolls, cymbal chokes, stick shots, and many more. The JOST NICKEL‘S FILL BOOK comes with an MP3 CD so you can hear many of the recorded fills in different tempos. Additionally, for those fills where you need to see how to move, there are twenty videos online. A 12-page insert containing reading texts completes the concept of this book. Jost and Alfred Music wish you a lot of fun and success with the JOST NICKEL‘S FILL BOOK. ANIKA NILLES, famous female drummer, says about Josts fill book: "A great book for all of us ... I find Jost‘s fill book very inspiring for my own playing and I highly recommend it!“ MATT HALPERN, voted as "The Best Metal Drummer" by Modern Drummer magazine: "One of the things I love most about Jost‘s playing is his approach to drum fills. His use of flams, cymbal accents, and melodic placements are just a few components that make his musical style so exciting to see and hear." MIKE JOHNSTON, Clinician/Educator of the Year 2016: “Jost is teaching you the deeper concepts that allow the fills to exist in the first place. Amazing book by a world class player!“ CHRIS COLEMAN, drummer with Prince, Chaka Khan, and many more: “Not only is Jost one of my favorite humans, he‘s a methodical and practical BEAST of a Musician & Drummer. This book will show you ALL of that.“
