Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781584961727
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 1584961724
Label: Musicians Workshop
Manufacturer: Musicians Workshop
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Musicians Workshop
Release Date: 2003-11-24
Running Time: 60
Studio: Musicians Workshop

Beginning Drums the fun informal approach for all ages! Designed to quickly prepare the absolute beginner to join a rock, blues or county band by skipping the formalities & jumping right into the real beats used in today’s popular dance bands. The fun approach to beginning drums! Learn the most widely used beats for rock, country, blues & pop styles. Paul Murski will transform the complete beginner into a formidable drummer in only a few practice sessions. There is no drum instruction like this on the market today because Paul starts right off showing you how to play your first song. It’s designed to get you ready to play in your first band, & do it in the quickest, most professional way possible. You will learn 10 beats for basic rock, country 2-step, waltz, blues, punk, swing, reggae, polka, hard rock, rap boogie woogie, rhythm-n-blues, slow rock, reggae, disco & swing, but more importantly, you will learn which beat is appropriate for which song, & how to determine which beat to use for any song that your band wants to play. On the video, Paul jams with his family band & his oldest son brings in his punk band to show Dad how to teach the punk-rock style. Perfect for all ages, Paul even brings in his 4 kids (ages 6-14) so that they can show you what they’ve learned from this great drum teacher. If you’d like to skip all the formalities & go right to playing the drums, then this video is for you! Oh yea, there’s a surprise lesson at the end of the video!

Customer Rating:
Summary: thinking about learning to play drums? buy this before you invest in your first kit.
Comment: That's what I did. And, one of these days I may just get around to buying a drumkit. In the meantime, while I'm still in the 'screwin around on my buddies kit' stage, this showed me pretty much everything I needed to know. Nothin fancy, just a pro session drummer showing you enough simple beats so you can learn to play in your first cover band. If you get this and you do decide to invest in a kit, after you learn a few of these simple beats invest in lessons from a good local teacher. This delivers almost everything it promises except it doesn't teach you how to tune your kit. But it does teach you about playing on cardboard boxes with sticks, a good way to learn ifyou're on a tight budget and not sure you're ready to commit.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy, thorough instruction, could've been..
Comment: If you are starting from zero or limited drum skills, this is a great beginning tool.

What I like is that it is very simple, and each style lesson has a four camera split that lets you see each drum as it is played.

Also each lesson is arranged so each it builds on the next , and each subsequent lesson is a variation of the previous usually adding a a kick drum or hi hat beat on the "and" part of the count.

If you really practiced each lesson for a week and got it down , you would be a fairly competent drummer in less that 3 months.

He even teaches the 60's song "wipe out" as a bonus.

The only thing I wish he would have added would be some "rolls" and include a floor tom.

No dvd can be perfect , but for the money you can't go wrong.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great for Beginners
Comment: Surprisingly, as advertised, it COULD get anyone playing a drum set right off the bat. Wish I'd had it when I first started out, but I derived useful tips and ideas from it even now. I couldn't recommend it any more highly for anyone who wants to be able to just sit down and play right off the bat, without taking lessons, and with or without the ability to read music.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What I was looking for
Comment: This was exactly the type of instruction I was looking for -- a split screen that shows what each element is doing and shows how to put them together. The only drawback was that there were only a few rock beats, which are what I was most interested in. Much of the DVD is devoted to beats I don't think I would use, such as waltz, country, boogie woogie, etc.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product
Comment: Starts right out with some good drumming. Easy to follow and understand. I feel like it is worth the money. If you learn the beats and practice, it could have you playing in a band pretty quickly.

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