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Royal Hartigan is a percussionist, pianist, educator, and author. For more than three decades, he has worked with master artists and musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets, social activists, and others to bring people together in celebration of our common humanity across cultures and national boundaries, through the medium of creative music in the African American tradition.
West African Eve Rhythms for Drumset
The complete, definitive exploration of West African rhythms. A 366-page masterwork explores and explains the history, traditions, instruments, people, rhythms, and music of the Eve peoples of West Africa, taking the traditionally played rhythms and demonstrating how to apply them to the drum set. 366 pages | with Video
A comprehensive study of standard rudiments applied to the drum kit. The book contains hundreds of exercises split into traditional rudimental categories like ruffs, paradiddles, rolls, ratamacues, and variations. The rudiments are presented in both duple- and triple-feel, offering a lifetime study of limb independence and coordination development that can be applied to virtually any musical style. 258 pages | with Video
