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Product Description (Berklee Guide). Integrate double bass drums into your beats. Two bass drums give you more power, speed, and flexibility, allowing you to create new dimensions of drumbeats. These timetables and other road-tested exercises methodically introduce the double pedal patterns into your beats, helping you play them intuitively, and revealing the possibilities of double bass drums. You get access to 38 online audio tracks for download or streaming, using the unique code inside this book. This will ensure you understand how each exercise could sound. These pedaling techniques and patterns will be useful in helping you to keep time, and playing solos and fills in jazz, funk, rock, world and any style of drumming. Online audio is accessed at Review Henrique De Almeida is a master drummer who has provided the drum community with a clear, methodical, and musical approach to learning double bass-drum technique demonstrating it in a way that is musically appropriate, as opposed to merely flamboyant exhibition. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to develop or further enhance their double bass-drum technique. And I personally look forward to studying this as well, with Henrique as my guide. --Terri Lyne Carrington, multi-Grammy® award winner (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Stevie Wonder Henrique has created a very comprehensive package that can enhance the performance of any drummer who wants to take their playing to the next level. The way the exercises are designed to work with different styles, or just as stand-alone workouts, is very well put together. I encourage anybody trying to break the barrier of double bass drumming to try out this book. --Antonio Sanchez, multi-Grammy® award winner (Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Gary Burton) Henrique's new book Double Bass Drum Integration contains an enormous range of technical and musical exercises. It is loaded with so many great practice tips and ideas that it's a gold mine for anyone wanting to master double bass drumming. Whether you're a student or a professional, you will get so much out of this book, and the audio tracks feature Henrique's masterful drumming perfectly demonstrating how to seamlessly apply double bass drumming into a wide variety of musical settings. Bravo Henrique, you've done it again!!! --Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny Group, Larry Coryell Power Trio, Kurt Elling, Paul Winter, Wertico Cain & Gray)