MULTIMEDIA

TODD SUCHERMAN METHODS & MECHANICS

BOOK LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED $19.99

The companion book to Sucherman's award-winning Methods & Mechanics instructional DVD provides detailed transcriptions of eight songs and five solos from the video performances. Sucherman is a class act who focuses on quality, writes passionately, and describes his musical approach in a very personal way. Methods & Mechanics effectively opens his toolbox to reveal his hybrid rudimental and double bass concepts. Sucherman's commentary and Brad Schlueter's masterful transcriptions supply detailed insight into the drummer's advanced ideas, and the entertaining and educational music on the accompanying CD includes all the tracks from the book plus several music-minus-drums play-alongs. This well-organized and affordably priced package provides an ideal mechanism for dissecting Sucherman's every move. (Hudson) Mike Haid