Leave it to Paul Hose and Felipe Drago to unlock a simple and focused way to unlock rudiments for every student! This is a fun and easy way to get to the drum set and immediately have results of expression! Fantastic! Thanks!

Dom Famularo

Drumming's Global Ambassador - New York, USA

Paul and Felipe have written an excellent beginners book on the rudiments and applying them to the drumset to create grooves. Starting out with stick grips and how to get comfortable at the drumset, they lay out the history of the rudiments and how the generally accepted Rudiments expanded over time to reach 40 Rudiments. Covered are the various rudiment families “Rolls and Ruffs”, “Diddles”, Flams and Drags”. All examples are accompanied by online videos and audio. (The digital version contains these all within the App). This excellent and well thought out publication is a welcome addition for the young drummer and will get them off to a great start and moving down the road to have fun and become an excellent drummer.

Rob Wallis

Founder of Hudson Music - New York, USA

I am impressed with the book Drumset for Beginners - Rudiments Unlocked! It's a great guide to learn - especially to apply Rudiments. It has a lot of creativity. I love the solo section! This is an awesome book for teachers to use with their students. Congratulations Felipe and Paul.

Nina Para

Drummer, teacher and author - Brazil

The more I develop as a player and teacher, the more I understand how difficult it can be at times to teach a subject. The basics of drumming and drum set playing with special regard to rudiments make no exception here. Paul and Felipe add some “basic but not easy” vibe to the issue of understanding important foundations of our art form and their relevance

in today’s drumming. Aspects of methodology and creative ideas on the transfer of knowledge also make this manual a valuable addition to the book collection of both teachers and students likewise. An inspiring source of knowledge!

Claus Hessler

Drummer, Author & International Clinician - Germany

I read all this book in the real meaning of the verb “to read” and I strongly recommend that you do so. The history section about Rudiments is full of details and I think that it is of super importance to know the background of what it is that we study. I also really like the Idea of the QR code that allows access to the online course. The possibility to be part of a community is also a huge attraction! This book also has a strong connection with the modern times in which we are living and it is extremely relevant to drummers of all backgrounds. There are a lot of new ideas and applications presented by Hose and Drago. Truly inspiring!

Paul and Felipe did a Fantastic Job!

Massimo Russo

Author and head of the Dom Famularo drum school - Italy

Drumset For Beginners : Rudiments Unlocked is exactly the kind of work that can be expected from two highly active drum educators with years of experience to draw from. After a solid presentation of historical background and practical study orientation, this method then looks closely at each drum rudiment in turn, firstly in it’s basic academic form, then subsequently followed up with the essential aspect of practical application. The true genius of this work, however, comes to fruition in the following section, where we discover how nurturing our desire for musical exploration will allow different rudiments to naturally come to us, thus avoiding the potentially flawed principle of using rudiments to dictate our creativity. 

This is indeed where rudiments become unlocked.

Rob Hirons

Author, Educator & head of curriculum at MLC Marseille, France