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Simplistic and reductive at times (jarringly so), this book is a great introductory guide for exploring Zappa's compositional strategies, styles, and objectives.

Detailed descriptions/transcriptions by Adrian Coburg, a percussionist and scholar of Afrocuban Lucumi/Santeria.

A group of rebetika enthusiasts are collaborating on the translation of all the songs in the book HASHISH REBETIKA by Suzanne Aulin and Peter Vejleskov.

In 1929, when Thomas de Hartmann and his wife took leave of G. I. Gurdjieff at Gurdjieff's Institute near Paris, they left behind a steamer trunk filled with manuscript music, much of which is recorded here for the first time. The music was composed by Gurdjieff and de Hartmann in a collaboration witnessed daily by the community of Gurdjieff's pupils and documented both in de Hartmann's book Our Life with Mr Gurdjieff and in the well-preserved sequence of manuscript drafts. One thing is clear: an exceptional musical event occurred at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in the years 1925-27, and its enduring result is this body of music.

Breaks, intros, endings, phrases, exercises, and more.

Rhythm notation, free lessons and mp3 files of djembe and dunun rhythms

19 Bata Rhythms from Matanzas, Cuba. 116 Pages. Accompanies 2-disc, instructional DVDs "El Lenguaje dell Tambor: Bata Rhythms from Matanzas, Cuba."

Think long, sinuous, minor-key, violin-carried melodies wending their way over a toe-tapping, thigh slapping, hip-shaking beat - a beat that sometimes accelerates and seems to be running away in ecstatic joyousness.