Advanced Jazz Drumming
In this course students will thoroughly examine the music and drumming styles of the post-bop and modern jazz idioms. These studies include advanced repertoire development, three- and four-way coordination studies for time keeping, polyrhythmic applications, improvisational concepts along with the listening, transcription and analysis of the work of master drummers Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette among numerous others.