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Jost Nickel is one of the new breed of drummers emerging from Germany. A top session and tour player, like his friends and contemporaries Benny Greb, Marco Minnemann and the newly emerging Anika Nilles (one of Jost’s students), Jost is taking contemporary drumming in new directions. Still, the one thing he understands from playing jazz and fusion with Randy Brecker and Barry Finnerty, funk and dance with Seeed and Mousse T., or hip hop with chart topper Jan Delay, is that The Groove is what it takes to bring the band together, energize the music and make listeners move.
With so much expectation on the drummer to provide the groove and set the feel for the band, it is no longer just a matter of what is played, but how it is played. This is the focus of Jost Nickel’s Groove Book. He shows how to design grooves using various orchestrations including splits and switches, ghost notes, snare and bass drum displacements, linear groove concepts and much more.
"Players and listeners", says Jost, "gravitate towards the groove because that is the center point. It’s the magnet. Without a great groove there is no feel, no movement, no music. And without being able to play great grooves, drummers will not get great gigs. So my book exists so players can learn and perfect their ability to groove, as well as create their own vocabulary of grooves.”
The mp3-CD included and reading text inserted really help to clarify the patterns introduced and then facilitate the creation of the drummer’s own patterns.
“This book", adds Jost, “is all about grooves that sound great and are fun to play. Studying this book will also enable a drummer to play with a deeper feel, better time and more creativity. It aims at the enthusiasm drummers - and the musicians they play with - have for great sounding grooves.”
In addition to touring and recording, Jost, who studied at Drummers
Collective in New York, is a tutor at the highly acclaimed University of
Pop in Mannheim and the Music Academy in Hamburg. He made his
international debut as a clinician and educator with performances at the
Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in America and
the Montreal Drum Fest in Canada, as well as with feature articles and
workshops in Modern Drummer (USA), Drummer (UK), Drums & Percussion
(Germany) and other publications.
What others say about Jost Nickel:
“Jost
is a fantastic drummer who teaches in a very clear and structured way.
With his book he focuses on practical and functional ideas, with
concepts for creating great sounding grooves. Really, it will enrich
every drummer’s library.”
- Benny Greb
“Jost Nickel is a
great player with sound ideas. This book mirrors his personality and
mental approach to grooving, creating and having fun while doing so.”
- Chris Coleman (Prince)
“Jost
Nickel is a groove-meister with impeccable chops, taste and soul. With
him behind the drums every one else in the band sounds better because of
what he plays. That is what playing the groove is all about.”
- Barry Finnerty (guitarist w/Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers, The Crusaders…)
“Jost
is an incredible groove drummer with mad chops and great taste. As my
teacher, his educational advice was – and still is – invaluable. He has a
great mixture of know-how and feeling.”
- Anika Nilles
“Jost’s educational delivery is as deep and thoughtful as his groove. Simply put, when he speaks, I listen.”
- Mike Johnson
“Jost’s
Groove Book analyses the Groove with step-by-step exercises offering
the user a multitude of possibilities for expressing their own
creativity. There are only a few drum methods I would want if I were
stranded on a desert island. Jost Nickel’s Groove Book is definitely one
of them.”
- Florian Alexandru-Zorn
Erschienen | Feb 2015 |
Autor/en | By Jost Nickel |
Publisher Group | ALFDE |
Produktformat | Buch & CD |
Instrument/e | Drumset |
Status Code | REL |