The free, accompanying audio cassette coordinates with the book, chapter by chapter, and provides music to play along with but in such a way that the music actually plays along with you , the drummer. In this unique manner, on e quickly learns how to play the drums with music, and is given more than enough drumset knowledge to play along with songs in just about any of the contemporary pop & rock styles (Metallica, U2, Springsteen, Puff Daddy, Vince Gill, The Stones, Bob Marley, Smashing Pumpkins, etc...)

The Drum Teacher does away with the standard music notes and, instead, employs clear, straightforward, counting systems which put the essential elements of playing a drumset easily within the grasp of the total non-musician so... what previously had to be learned as: can now, and much more easily, be learned as:

Author Howard Fields played drums for singer/songwriter Harry Chapin from 1975-1981 and is currently an active player and teacher in the NYC area. He has written numerous articles for Modern Drummer and Down Beat magazine and has authored over twenty drum transcription books for Warner Brothers Music, Hal Leonard Publishing, and The Cherry Lane Music Co. with the transcribed artists including Metallica, The Doors, The Dave Matthews Band, and Buddy Rich. In another area, he is an avid archivist of rock music history and his business, Rock Paper, is the best source anywhere for back issues of, and information on Rolling Stone magazine.