Skip Hadden
has been performing and recording with various artists
since 1968, including Michael Bocian,
Ira Sullivan, Ernie Krivda, Sonny Stitt, Bill DeArango,
John Abercrombie, Ed Saindon,
Eddie Gomez, and Kenny Werner. In addition, he can be
heard with Weather Report on Mysterious
Traveler, This Is Jazz
10, Weather Report, and
the recent recording Reverence with Michael
Bocian, Dewey Redman, and Cameron Brown on the ENJA
label.
Skip is a Professor of Percussion at
Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he has
taught since 1982. He is the author of four books: World
Fusion Drumming, published by Warner Bros. Publishers,
and The Beat, The Body, & The Brain II, Rhythmic
Concepts: Broken Eighth Note Feel, Profiles
In Jazz Drumming, published by Who's Counting?
Publications. His books are used by numerous educators
and institutions and are also required texts of the
Berklee Percussion Department curriculum.
WORLD FUSION DRUMMING
Rhythmic Concepts Using the Beat, the Body, and the Brain
World Fusion Drumming combines the energy and feel of rock, Latin,
and world music with the technique and improvisational skills
of jazz. Within the formats of samba, baião, songo, nañigo,
shuffle, and 6/4 rhythms (the beat), this book explains
how to combine the applicable instruments (the body) and
explains what's going on (the brain). This approach uses
any one of the aforementioned rhythms as a gateway to unlock the
essence of drumming through enhanced drum set control. CD included.
From the Introduction:
"What is Fusion Drumming? Is it the
blending of Jazz and Rock rhythms mixed together or is it something
else or something more? For the purpose of this book, I see it
as all music/rhythms from around the world joined together in
any combination to help you execute your ides and better communicate
them in whatever music you play.
"Take the bass like rhythms from Samba and Baião from Brazil and
Songo from Cuba, you will explore how you can develop control of
your hands and feet using 1/8th and 1/16th notes. The Nañigo, an
Afro-Cuban rhythm, as well as Shuffle and Half Time Shuffle rhythms
from here in the United States, will also be used to help you gain
greater control of your instrument through the development of 1/8th
triplets. Returning to rhythms of Brazil, you will use the 6/4
Samba and construct distinctly different grooves with the same
stickings using basic building blocks of rhythm, groups of twos
and threes."
