Anika Nilles - Pad Book (Alfred Music Publishing)

If you don't have regular access to your drums, travel a lot, or have neighbors with sensitive ears...

But practicing without a drum kit is unique! To maintain hand dexterity and delve into EFFECTIVE METHODS that will truly improve your technique, Anika Nilles' PAD BOOK is exactly that!

Anika provides plenty of possibilities for what and how to practice on a pad. Practice pads are particularly well-suited because they reduce drumming to one basic sound source. This way, you track the process of continuous progression in terms of sticking and feel, phrasing, and rhythmic concepts.

The 280-page book contains information regarding accents, phrasing in regular and odd note values, mixed meters, hand independence, and polyrhythms.

The result is a complete system with triplets, sixteenth notes, quintuplets, sextuplets, and septuplets, which are divided into individual steps, starting from a very basic layout and then moving on to more complex rhythms. The emphasis is on building and consolidating foundations across all note values, raising awareness of timing and rhythm, and presenting many possibilities for developing acquired skills.
Anika also creates a collection of warm-ups that provide ideas for creating your own rhythmic patterns based on the technical functions contained in this book.

The deeper meaning underlying Anika's ideas is always how to be more creative. It's about working on your weaknesses, improving your strengths, developing new ideas and rhythms for yourself, or simply looking at familiar things from a different perspective.
When you return to the drum kit, you'll find that you can focus on more detailed, musically relevant topics such as sound, orchestration, and dynamics, because your hands, body, and mind have already internalized the basics practiced on the pad!

• Author: Anika Nilles
• Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
• Format: DIN A4
• 280 pages
• English version
• weight: 0.9kg
• dimensions: 280 × 216 × 20 mm