Drum Set Warm-Ups: Essential Exercises for Improving Technique by Rod Morgenstein

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Step away from the practice pad! Legendary drummer Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to limber up your entire body. While snare/pad warm-up books focus on hand, wrist, and finger development, Drum Set Warm-Ups will get your arms and whole body moving in clockwise, counterclockwise, up, down, side-to-side, cross-over, cross-under, and criss-cross motions.

Develop and improve:

• speed and power
• control and coordination
• independence and accuracy
• endurance and agility

Drum Set Warm-Ups is the perfect complement to warming up on a practice pad. This workshop will increase your confidence, and give you a greater facility and command of the drum set. It will help you develop the necessary skills and techniques to play to your full potential.

Rod Morgenstein is a founding and current member of the Grammy-nominated progressive rock-fusion group, the Dixie Dregs, and a multi-year winner of Modern Drummer Readers Poll Best Progressive Rock Drummer. He has recorded and toured with the Rudess Morgenstein Project, Platypus, the Steve Morse Band, and Jazz Is Dead, and was an original member of Winger. Rod is an associate professor of percussion at Berklee College of Music and an international drum educator and clinician. He has authored four drum-set books and has written columns for Modern Drummer, Rhythm, and Sticks magazines.