Join legendary drummer Peter Erskine as he reveals the techniques and secrets behind his success ... This eye-opening look into the mind of one of the world's greatest dummers will add new dimensions to your own playing.

Program content c2004. "DVD includes demonstration (with drums) and play-along (without drums) audio examples of music featured in the companion book The Erskine method for drumset"--Packaging. Includes special features: interviews with Alan Pasqua, Bob Sheppard and Dave Carpenter ; bonus short film "Drum" made by Peter Erskine at age 16 ; special video montage of Peter through the years ; Peter's tribute speech to Elvin Jones ... [and more].

Introduction -- Musical style and feel : subdividing the beat --It already happened -- (sax trio performance) -- Subdivision awareness -- Physical relationship to the drumset : tone & touch -- Ride cymbal technique -- Ride cymbal phrasing -- Matched grip and cross-stick -- Song for Jaco (song for a friend) -- (quartet performance) -- Coordination and subdivisions -- Straight eighth-note excercises -- Swung eighth-note excercises -- Tempo and phrasing : slow -- On the lake (piano trio performance) -- Tempo and phrasing : medium -- Twelve -- (quartet performance) -- Tempo and phrasing : fast, and fills -- Rhythm method -- (Erskine feature performance) -- Fills and solos -- The ostinato -- Cats & kittens -- (sax trio performance) -- Afterword. Demonstration tracks (with drums). Family fun(k) -- Journey to the center of the blues -- Side man bop -- The cats -- Daddy, what is God's last name? -- Boogie shuttle stop -- Rhythm method -- Waltz of the flowers -- Cats & kittens -- Badlands -- Summer's waltz.