If you don't have access to your drums regularly, travel a lot, or have neighbors with sensitive ears, you will already have a PRACTICE PAD. But practicing without a drum kit is special! To keep your hands agile and dive deeper into EFFECTIVE METHODS that really improve your pad technique, ANIKA NILLES' PAD BOOK is JUST THE THING! Anika gives plenty of options WHAT AND HOW to practice on a pad. Practice pads are particularly well suited because they reduce drumming to one basic sound source. This way you follow a process of continuous progression in terms of stickings and rudiments, phrasings and rhythm concepts. Her FUNDAMENTAL WORKOUTS deal with accents, phrasings and stickings in regular and odd note values, mixed meters, hand independence and polyrhythms on 280 pages. The result is a complete system with triplets, 16th notes, quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets, which are broken down into individual steps starting with a very basic layout before moving to more complex rhythms. The focus is on building up and consolidating fundamentals across all note values, raising awareness on a feel for time and rhythm, and presentation of many possibilities on how you can expand acquired skills. Anika also puts together a collection of WARM-UPS which suggest ideas on how you create your own rhythm patterns out of the technical features in this book. The deeper meaning underpinning Anika's ideas is always how to be MORE CREATIVE. It is about working on your weaknesses, improving your strengths, developing new ideas and rhythms for yourself, or simply looking at familiar things from a different perspective. Back on the DRUM KIT you will find that you can focus on more specific, musically relevant topics such as sound, orchestration, and dynamics, since the hands, body, and mind have already internalized the basics practiced on the pad. JUST FUNDAMENTAL!

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Anika Nilles is a German drummer, composer and instructor. She represents the new breed of 21st century drummers. She studied drums and music business at the Popakademie in Mannheim (Germany) with Udo Dahmen, Jost Nickel and Claus Hessler. Anika has appeared on stage with several artists and bands, and made her online debut in 2013 with her own YouTube channel, featuring videos of her unique compositions and inimitable playing style. With almost 20 million video views in recent years, she has made a name for herself as a much sought-after drummer and educator. To date, Anika has released two albums; Pikalar and For a Colorful Soul, and several singles. As a well-known clinician she has toured in Asia, North America, Australia and Europe, and participated in high profile drum events such as PASIC (USA), the LONDON DRUMSHOW (UK), the DRUMEO FESTIVAL (Canada), the RALPH ANGELILO DRUMFEST (Canada) and the BAG SHOW (France) and many more. For her work as a clinician and educator she has won numerous prestigious awards including: 2015 Modern Drummer Readers Poll for Up And Coming Artist, 2016 DRUM! Magazine No. 1 Rising Star 2017 UK Drummies Awards No. 3 Best Educator 2018 UK Musicradar No. 1 Best Clinician 2019 UK Musicradar No. 3 Best Clinician Anika teaches at the Popakademie the University of Popular Music and Music Business in Germany, and at the Nexus ICA (UK). She is also guest instructor at DRUMEO (Canada). In addition to her work as educator, clinician, author and composer, she regularly plays with her own band project NEVELL and is in high demand as a freelance drummer. As an author she writes workshops for several magazines like drums & percussion (Germany) and DRUM! (USA). Her PAD BOOK published by Alfred Music is her debut as a book author.