Roots Jam : Collected Rhythms for Hand Drum and Percussion (Volume 1)

Learn and remember djembe rhythms the easy way, with visual grid notation.

Whether you are a beginning drummer mystified by complex traditional polyrhythms, or an advanced drummer seeking a ready resource of new rhythm inspirations, Roots Jam provides you with an essential and comprehensive toolkit of beats, lessons, and tips for practice and performance.

• See at a glance how ensemble parts and polyrhythms fit together.
• Compare and draw from multiple ethnic drumming traditions.
• Mix and match fun ensemble arrangements and breaks.

Nowick Gray is a drumming performer and teacher with thirty years of experience playing West African rhythms. His popular Roots Jam rhythm books, YouTube videos, audio compositions and instructional web pages have helped beginning, intermediate and performing drummers understand and play traditional African-based rhythms since 1996.

This first book in the Roots Jam series covers a global range of drumming styles. It reveals the secret of how you can use a simple shift in emphasis to create a completely different feel, or even genre, of world music.

Empower yourself to take that quantum leap, to the full ecstasy and power of the drum. Pick up your copy of Roots Jam today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page.

Nowick Gray has been a teacher and workshop leader for twenty-five years, and a drummer for ten. His popular book and instructional webpages have helped beginning, intermediate and performing drummers understand and play traditional African-based rhythms since 1996.