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Drums Grade 4

Rockschool's Drums Grade 4 book is an in-depth guide to the expressive techniques that you'll be performing in your Grade 4 exam, such as Ghost snare, flams and ruffs and hand and feet patterns

What you'll learn at Grade 4

Solo and Improvisation passages, Ghost snare, rim shot, riding on the toms
Single and double strokes, paradiddles, Flams and ruffs, hands and feet patterns
Playback and performance skills

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Drums Grade 4 features:

6 new arrangements of iconic rock, pop, and contemporary music tracks from classic and contemporary artists & 6 Rockschool Originals
The most diverse selection of contemporary music ever seen in a syllabus making the Grades accessible to everyone without precluding any musical tastes
Fact Files: band and artist background information with recommended listening
Walkthroughs: in-depth guidance on every track
Downloadable audio: easily access audio content online
All the essential music theory and technique you need to pass your exams

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Coldplay - In My Place
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Fugees - Ready Or Not
Stormzy - Scary
6 Rockschool Originals

There is no errata for this book.

Page 30: Technical Exercises – Group A: Single and Double Strokes - The sticking of the double strokes is incorrect and should read "RRLL" throughout – "RRRR" should not occur within the exercise. (Updated 8 February 2013)
Page 30: Technical Exercises – Group B: Paradiddles - Second exercise ("Triple paradiddle in 16th notes") – Bar 2, Beat 3: the cymbal notes should be ride cymbal (not hi-hat). (Updated 8 February 2013)

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