Essential Grooves for Writing, Performing and Producing Contemporary Music In Demand

Essential Grooves for Writing, Performing and Producing Contemporary Music
By three Berklee College professors: Dan Moretti, Matthew Nicholl and Oscar Stagnaro.

Essential Grooves packs everything you need to know about contemporary styles into a must-have reference of audio, scores, and text.

• The book presents 41 different grooves covering all the important styles that have influenced contemporary music, each performed by live players.
• The book/DVD set contains scores, text, and stereo mixes of the musical examples, as well as multi-track audio files of each example that all instrumentalists can use in a variety of ways.
• Users of this book will acquire the vocabulary and gain a deep understanding of each style through the historical background provided.
• The book’s unique, license-free audio examples can be used to create custom play-alongs and original music.
• Through Essential Grooves, the user will understand how all the instruments in the rhythm section are notated.
• Used together, the book and the audio will help you to not only learn these styles, but also create original music based on these grooves.