03/31/2024
HAPPY EASTER!
No, I'm not posting from church. To avoid the crowd, we hit the Friday night service. 😉
Remember the drum books I have been mentioning during class? Well, I finally finished restoring them! In case you missed those classes....
Back in the 90s, music was my thing. I taught at Belmont University in Nashville and wrote four instructional books for drum set during that period. The 2000s were a time of great change in my life—upheaval may be too strong a word, but not by much—and I managed to lose track of them. Though I tried not to dwell on it, sometimes the ghosts of those books haunted my dreams.
Until about a month ago.
I was digging around in storage one morning and ran across a box labeled "Jeff's Music Books." I don't know how long I stood staring at it, but crickets were chirping outside in the darkness when I finally jolted awake. And I'd grown a beard.
Just kidding, of course, but the discovery did indeed spike my pulse.
Inside the box were the print masters for all four books. I dropped what I was doing and went to work scanning the music parts and copying the text into new Word documents. A few weeks of grueling work and...
VIOLA! 🎻
Wait. I mean...
VOILA!
I released them on Amazon, all under the name "Jeff T. Wade" in order to separate them from my fiction work. (My fiction is under "Jeff Wade," no middle initial.) Though I revised the text a little, the music is still the same. The "Demystifying Rhythm" series lent itself to eBook editions. You can find them along with paperback versions here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW6H4S9H
The Infinity Book, however—being an OCD inspired, linear-pattern reference work comprised of tables jammed with cryptic sticking figures—only works in paperback. You can find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Book-Jeff-T.../dp/B0CXMS4DSX
I realize few of you are drummers. But I thought I'd let you know in case you have friends or family who slam the skins. And in case $5 bucks is too steep for your percussionist buds (don't laugh; music is a tough life!), I will soon run free eBook promotions for the Demystifying Rhythm series.
Take care and c u on the mat!
Jeff
The Infinity Book
