Exercises & Solos

 

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This page contains links to audio files of the exercises and solos in the first edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Drums. 

These files are in MP3 format, so to listen to them you'll need some sort of MP3 player (such as a recent version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player) installed on your computer.

Click on the chapter link below to go to the audio files for the exercises and solos in that chapter.   

These files were recorded using four Shure microphones on a Drum Workshop drumset. Two SM57s were placed over and slightly in front of the set, while a dedicated SM57 was used on the snare drum. A Beta 52 was used for the bass drum. All microphones were fed into a Tascam 414 mkII PortaStudio for initial tracking; final mixdown was directly to PC, using GoldWave software with minimal effects processing.