Drums & Percussion Magazine
Book review of Rudimental Grooves volume 1 and volume 2 in Drums & Percussion magazine(german edition), issue 02/2019. Many thanks to Cord Radke!
Rudiments often have something difficult to decipher. Satoria's idea is, starting from a simple basic groove, to integrate different rudiments and to highlight them in a remarkable way. So a row of black dots and mosquito bones suddenly becomes a term. And what you once understood - in the truest sense of the word - and made your own is now also available in another context: It can easily be integrated into a modular groove concept as a fill or rhythmic element, and suddenly completely new and interesting rhythms emerge effortlessly. Volume 1 works with binary contexts, Volume 2 deals with ternary grooves. For each (each!) of the more than 900 exercises there are listening examples in at least three different tempos.
Rudiments often have something difficult to decipher. Satoria's idea is, starting from a simple basic groove, to integrate different rudiments and to highlight them in a remarkable way. So a row of black dots and mosquito bones suddenly becomes a term. And what you once understood - in the truest sense of the word - and made your own is now also available in another context: It can easily be integrated into a modular groove concept as a fill or rhythmic element, and suddenly completely new and interesting rhythms emerge effortlessly. Volume 1 works with binary contexts, Volume 2 deals with ternary grooves. For each (each!) of the more than 900 exercises there are listening examples in at least three different tempos.
