Fifty Ways to Love Your Drumming - Or-Tav Publications distributed by Southern Music Company.

OR-TAV MUSIC PUBLICATIONS
NEW PUBLICATION FOR DRUMMERS AND JAZZ MUSICIANS

OR-TAV MUSIC PUBLICATIONS are distributed exclusively in North America by Southern Music Company.

Fifty Ways To Love Your Drumming is designed to help students learn and distinguish 50 common beats and fills. Each beat is described, notated, and performed on the accompanying CD. In addition to the usual rock, jazz, funk, Latin, Brazilian, and dance beats, the book features a section on how to play traditional Middle Eastern rhythms on the drum set.

Not only drummers will find this book useful. Keyboardists and songwriters who want to understand the rhythmic underpinnings of popular styles will discover this publication to be a valuable reference, and arrangers may wish to use it as a manual.

The text in English, French, Spanish, German, and Hebrew. 64 pp + CD. $19.95.

A sample page with soundtrack can be seen at: http://ortav.com/Publications/fifty_ways.htm.

Jerusalem-born Rony Holan is head of the drumset department at the Rimon School of Jazz in Israel. A versatile musician, he has played with top international jazz artists, particularly in France where he lived for five years. During that time he also played with the Monte Carlo Big Band. In Israel, he regularly appears in television shows and has played in numerous musical productions including Cabaret, Evita, The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Les Miserables. Rony is the drummer for the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, and plays also at Habima, Israel's National Theater. Currently, he is the musical director and composer of the Almitra Ensemble, which he founded.

Fifty Ways to Love Your Drumming by Rony Holan as reviewed in Modern Drummer, April 2001
Rating: 8

One day your bandleader will call out one of these beats. No question, if drumming is your passion, you are going to want to know rock, country, funk, Latin, jazz, and dance beats at a glance. You might even get a gig playing Middle Eastern music. That's here, too. Perhaps for that reason, Rony Holan translates the description of each rhythm into Hebrew, Spanish, German, and French.

As a "pocket reference," Fifty Ways is superb. The CD is well recorded and exceptionally well played - with one reservation. If you take Holan's cha-cha, for example, you're going to find that it's at odds with the textbook varieties you've learned in the past. Same with his "funk shuffle." That said, you might want to defer to his judgement. He's done his homework and the beats and fills are up-to-date. (Or-Tav Music Publications)

T. Bruce Wittet


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OR-TAV MUSIC PUBLICATIONS NEW PUBLICATION FOR DRUMMERS AND JAZZ MUSICIANS

OR-TAV MUSIC PUBLICATIONS
NEW PUBLICATION FOR DRUMMERS AND JAZZ MUSICIANS