Alfred Music has released Paul Wertico’s Turn the Beat Around, A Drummer’s Guide to Playing “Backbeats” on 1 & 3, a book that examines “backbeats” in a new light.
The book provides drummers with innovative ways of expanding groove vocabulary, solidifying time, and mastering coordination and limb independence. In the book, Wertico names these reversed beats frontbeats.
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