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Andy Ziker’s Daily Drum Warm-Ups: 365 Exercise to Develop Your Technique (Hal Leonard Corporation) is a follow-up to Drum Aerobics. This book is a 52-week, one-exercise-per-day warm-up program. Daily Drum Warm-Ups includes a detailed tutorial on hand technique (including brush playing), 365 hand exercises and 20 foot ostinatos, and an accompanying audio CD with demos of each exercise. (The CD is enhanced with the Amazing Slow-Downer.) It is designed for all drummers, from beginners to advanced.

In the following interview, Ziker talks with Percussion Partners in more detail about the new book.

PP: Two books is a lot in one year.  How did this come to pass?

Ziker: The content found in Daily Drum Warm-Ups was originally supposed to be part of Drum Aerobics. The idea being: a warm-up and a workout for every day of the year–just like you might do as a gym routine. When Hal Leonard informed me that I was over-stuffing the layout of Drum Aerobics with too much content, I proposed another book and Daily Drum Warm-Ups was born.

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Ziker’s Drum Aerobics Nominated for 2011 Drummies

Drum Aerobics (Hal Leonard) by Percussion Partner, Andy Ziker, is a 120-page book/2-CD pack, providing a 52-week, one-exercise-per-day workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining drumset technique. The book has been nominated for Drum! Magazine’s 2010 Drummies. (If you would like to vote for the book, please go to http://www.drummagazine.com/drummies/. Drum Aerobics can be found on page 6, category #15. You don’t have to be a magazine subscriber and voting runs until May 1.)

Drum Aerobicsis designed for players of all levels – beginner to advanced – to help them increase their speed, coordination, dexterity, accuracy and lick vocabulary. Two accompanying CDs contain all 365 workout licks, plus play-along grooves in styles including rock, blues, jazz, heavy metal, reggae, funk, calypso, bossa nova, march, mambo, New Orleans 2nd Line, and many more. 

Ziker is also offering free content to accompany the book and 2 CDs:

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We are happy to welcome Andy Ziker as our latest Percussion Partner.  Andy is an educator,author and professional drummer in the Phoenix area and we are intrigued by his creative, fresh approach to working with  students.  Read more on how Andy captures young students interest and makes learning how to play drums fun! 

From GAMER to DRUMMER by Andy Ziker

A few years ago, one of students showed sudden, remarkable improvement in playing
rock grooves and executing single stroke rolls. I investigated further and found out that
she had been playing a video game called Rock Band for many hours each day. Being a
non-gamer, I had no idea what she was talking about, but as I delved deeper into this (and
with the help of my student) an idea began to formulate: find a way to use Rock Band as
a learning tool.

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Mike Johnston, known as one of the premier sources for drumming education on the web, brings it live to to Southern California. The clinic will be at The Music Factory in Orange County on February 11th. Start time is 6:30.

This will be a great opportunity to meet Mike live, up close and personal and get tips from a great percussion educator.

Don't miss it!

For more info on event visit www.themusicfactoryoc.com  The Music Factory, 1125 Victoria Street, Suite C Costa Mesa, CA 92627 (866)796-4443.

For more information on Mike visit:  http://www.aquariandrumheads.com/artists/mike-johnston