Randy Black: The Black Book

Randy Black:
The Black Book

Randy Black is synonymous with extreme metal drumming and with many years of performance and teaching experience behind him, the master is releasing this 2 DVD pack so that anyone can benefit from his wealth of knowledge.

"What started out as a plan to record a few songs in pro quality for promotional purposes ended up being this double DVD, filmed and recorded at Monongo Studios in Berlin, Germany. When I approached ROAX films about it they suggested I do a full-fledged instructional DVD. It was not my original plan but after thinking it over and coming up with a concept I thought I’d give it a shot.
It also had to do with the fact that I’d been teaching for quite a few years and knew I had something to offer to a wide variety of levels of players.

I hope you can take something from these DVDs and apply it to your playing in your own personal way.
With today’s recording methods it’s very common that certain programs/software are used to improve or fix someone’s playing; it’s standard procedure. I wanted this DVD to be "old school" in the sense that there was not one note I played that was moved or quantized. Nor were there any samples used. I wanted the listener/viewer to hear and see how I play naturally and how the drum kit sounds acoustically. Every single drum note you hear played on this DVD was played by yours truly, from start to finish"
- Randy Black

Disk 1 Includes:

• Basic rudiments on the practice pad
• Advice to young drummers
• Hand grip and technique
• Stretching and stick tricks
• Applying various rudiments on the kit
• Hi-hat foot technique
• Independence exercises/moving accents
• Various fills and rhythms from Randy’s recordings
• Crossovers
• Applying different styles to metal music
• Tools of the trade
• 3 solos - pad/studio/live
  

Disk 2 includes:

• Documentary/Interview
• Drum performance of 7 songs:
  

Seven Seals/Primal Fear
Hit You Harder/Skew Siskin
Blood On Your Hands/Primal Fear
Heart Of A Brave/Primal Fear
Blackened Beauty/Marcus Frostbauer
A Promise From Underneath/DuskMachine
Cold Blooded/Annihilator (Cover Version) PAKETK3