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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
Winter NAMM 2009 Complete CoverageAnaheim Convention Center--Anaheim, CA: January 15-18
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Hudson Music Introduces New Products at NAMM '09
January 09, 2009
Advertisement "Arrival: Behind The Glass" DVD/CD Set Russ Miller's 3-Disc "Arrival: Behind The Glass" DVD/CD Set Combines Stellar Performances With Groundbreaking Insight, Instruction And Play-Along Opportunities. Presenting one of today's leading drum artists along with a host of LA's top studio musicians and more than a dozen of the world's best-known drummers and percussionists, "Arrival: Behind The Glass" (Hudson Limited) by Russ Miller is an unprecedented, three-disc package that contains a full-length audio CD, a minus-drums play-along CD and a jam-packed DVD with artist interviews, extensive instructional content and documentary footage of these historic recording sessions. "I had been working on the concepts and material for a new record more than two years when the idea of exploring how different musicians interpret rhythm and pulse came to me," Russ explains. "Nine 'superstars' of the drum world agreed to be involved and we composed pieces featuring two full drumkit parts, based on the styles of the drummers I was going to play with. Then, those pieces became the inspiration for the songs with the band. This was a huge project and a very humbling, exciting and incredible learning experience for me." "Arrival", the featured 80-minute audio CD, is Miller's third independent record project and features ten new compositions performed by an all-star line-up of musicians, including world-class percussionists Pete Lockett, Luis Conte and Richie Gajate Garcia. Interspersed with these ensemble performances are nine "Rhythmic Conversations"—original drum duets between Russ and modern drum heroes Steve Gadd, Steve Smith, Jeff Hamilton, Rick Marotta, Zoro, Johnny Rabb, John "JR" Robinson, Akira Jimbo and Wolfgang Haffner. A second CD containing minus drums tracks and printable transcriptions of both parts of the drum duets, gives players an opportunity to sit in with some of the greatest drummers in the world and learn a variety of challenging rhythmic concepts and techniques. Completing the multi-media learning system is a 3-hour and 20-minute DVD in which Miller demonstrates and explains how to analyze, play and develop many of the musical ideas used in the Arrival pieces. The DVD also includes interviews with all the drummers and documentary footage taken throughout the 3-year production process. Additional bonus features on the DVD are split-screen video for multiple views of the recording sessions, DTS 5.1 surround sound and an e-Book with printable charts and exercises as well as Pro-Tools® data files that allow the listener to re-mix the tracks. One of Los Angeles' top studio musicians, Russ Miller has recorded with a wide variety of internationally-acclaimed artists. He has also performed on more than 300 albums including multiple Grammy® award winning recordings as well as the soundtracks of many feature films. The five-time Modern Drummer Readers Poll winner has also released two books, three videos and two solo albums while remaining active as a clinician and part-time inventor of drum accessories. Arrival: Behind The Glass has a suggested retail price of $39.95 Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials 2.0 Presented by Hudson Music and Vic Firth, Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials 2.0 Takes Drumset Education To The Next Level. When it was originally released in 2004, master drummer/educator Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials DVD and Play-Along Book/CD set the world standard for groove development. Practical yet progressive, Groove Essentials provided an encyclopedia of fundamental drumset patterns for drummers of every age, ability level and musical application. Today, tens of thousands of drummers and teachers around the world, from beginning students to full-time professionals, use Groove Essentials 1.0 to enhance their technique, musicianship and general drumset knowledge. And now, Groove Essentials 2.0 from Hudson Music and Vic Firth picks up where the top-selling original left off. Complementing the 47 grooves contained in Groove Essentials 1.0, Groove Essentials 2.0 features a DVD and companion book/CD package with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players. Students will learn the difference between ghost and grace notes (while being encouraged to experiment with both in all six groove "families") as well as important "go-to" grooves, like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats. For more advanced players and professionals, GE 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction, interpretation and manipulation—training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential. The DVD features more than 70 new songs covering 4/4, 2/2, 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures, with three levels of difficulty for 5/4, 7/8 and 9/8 meters. On the 3-hour, 45-minute DVD, Igoe discusses and demonstrates each groove in multiple tempos, alone and with a band, with many patterns shown on both acoustic and on Roland HD-1 and TD-9 electronic drumkits. Groove Essentials 2.0 grooves cover Rock, Funk, R&B/Hip-Hop, Jazz (sticks and brushes), World/Specialty, Extreme Tempos, All-Purpose, Hybrid, Rideless, Classic and Odd-Meters. The DVD also features German, Spanish and Japanese subtitles. The Groove Essentials 2.0 companion Play-Along book and CD contain over 90 tracks, including every song from the DVD in their full-length versions, minus the drums; allowing drummers to expand their skills by playing any of the grooves with a band and recording themselves on audio or video (optional) to help facilitate the learning process. These tracks also supply a variety of fill-in and soloing opportunities to challenge advanced players. In addition, the GE 2.0 Play-Along Book and CD feature Igoe's extended "global tours" that will test even the most seasoned professional's chops, creativity and stamina and, as a "first of it's kind" bonus, there is a full-length orchestral play-along track designed to provide a taste of playing in a full orchestra, complete with multiple moving tempos, dynamics and feels. A large poster of all 53 Groove Essentials 2.0 patterns is also included with the DVD (courtesy of Vic Firth) and a free sample lesson along with other online support is available as part of Hudson's Complete™ integrated, multi-media music education system at. All together, the Groove Essentials series is designed to be the most practical, comprehensive and musically useful drumset method ever produced. Groove Essentials is priced at: 2.0 DVD ($24.95) and book/CD ($24.95) as well as a specially-priced DVD/Book/CD Combo Pack ($39.95). The Language Of Drumming DVD Rob Wallis And Paul Siegel Present The Language Of Drumming — A New DVD, A New System And A New Standard Of Drum Education Featuring The Extraordinary Benny Greb. "The Language Of Drumming" is a game-changing addition to drum education that contains the method created and used by internationally-acclaimed drummer Benny Greb to develop his awe-inspiring creativity, musicality and technique. For any drummer that aspires be a better player and a more complete musician, he's definitely speaking your language. " From the overture and opening credits to the movie-within-a-movie menu, viewers of The Language Of Drumming (Hudson Music) will immediately sense that even though they're watching a drumming DVD they may well be seeing the beginning of a new era in music education. Beyond its amazingly clever concepts, beautiful sets and Academy-award worthy production values, this groundbreaking two-disc set also presents extraordinary European drummer Benny Greb and his advanced approach to making music that raises the art of drumming to an entirely new level. As Greb explains in his initial on-camera comments, learning to play the drums is like learning to speak a language. Greb makes the point that knowing a few basic drum beats and fills is like knowing only a few standard phrases in a language; they won't allow you to communicate clearly or have a full, interactive conversation in practical situations. Greb's carefully thought-through solution—and a quantum leap in drum education—is to learn the "language of drumming" by starting with its smallest components: the individual "letters" of the rhythmic alphabet. Greb then introduces his revolutionary 24-character system and shows how to use the basic binary and ternary rhythms to develop timing, technique, dynamic control and speed... even the traditional drum rudiments. Covering hands and feet, with and without a practice pad, he quickly progresses from simple alphabetical exercises to more intricate examples of "words" (rhythmic phrases) and "syntax" (sentences and vocabulary) on the full drumset. The second disc goes on to include a vast amount of additional information, from practical discussions about the importance of listening, building fills and solos using improvisational exercises, and developing better time and expanding rhythmic "comfort zones" through creative use of a metronome to ingenious examples of finding new and alternative sounds on the drums. Throughout the entire presentation, Greb flawlessly performs exercises and patterns that illustrate his theories while referring to the comprehensive archive of printable PDF charts and exercises that are included on the discs. The double-DVD also features several drum solos as well as Greb's performances with master percussionist Pete Lockett and the Benny Greb Brass Band plus a wealth of bonus material and is recommended for all drummers (from beginners to professionals) and drum teachers. The Language Of Drumming has a suggested retail price of $39.95 Please note the tentative availability dates for these titles: Hudson products are available at leading drumshops and music stores everywhere. For more information, please contact Hudson Music at tel: (888) 796-2992, fax: (914) 246-5282, e-mail: hudsoninfo@aol.com,    (Click for close-up)
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