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Title: Excellent!
Review: Gary Chaffee's Rhythm & Meter Patterns is a great study. It aims to help you gain dynamic and rhythmic control with all odd and even subdivisions up to 8 per beat. The study does not focus on just one surface (such as the snare) but the entire drum set. The included CD is also very helpful with this; it is very much like having Chaffee as an instructor to explain how to apply these studies on the drum set AND play the ideas for you.I recommend you study this book along with Mike Mangini's Rhythm Knowledge (Vol. 2)--why doesn't Amazon.com have this book?? And actually, Mike Mangini (professor at Berklee College of Music) even uses Chaffee's book along with his rhythm courses. Rhythm & Meter Patterns is also a great precursor for mastering Portraits in Rhythm.
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