Kenny Aronoff Power Workout Complete - Professional Drumming Exercise Program for Musicians & Drummers - Perfect for Home Practice, Studio Sessions & Live Performances

I have had this Kenny Aronoff Power Workout ever since it came out on VHS and had those little booklets with it. The problem was simply back 12 years ago I really couldn't read charts or exercises hardly at all, so when you would then attempt to see what he's doing on the video section, well... Kenny does it all at one speed which is regular and it becomes hard to recognize all the hand patterns. It's kind of hard on your own. Then Kenny came to Fresno to do a clinic and I told him it was very hard and he said "Yes it is". What happened was about 5 years ago I started taking jazz lessons from a teacher who raked me over the coals by forcing me to hold my sticks more correctly, and read exercises by his example from books with Charles Dowd, Ted Reed, Charlie Wilcoxon, George Stone and Jim Blackley. Now I can read charts and write charts a bit. So I then noticed Kenny's program there on my shelve and I put it back on to take a look at it. Now I can comprehend the material enough to start working with it and develop with it! My only little complaint is that Kenny , in my opinion should have played it at a slow speed first and then regular speed at the end. Maybe he didn't because playing it slower can sometimes be harder, even for the people who create it. If you can, play it at a speed you can play, and it will have some cool results. After reading Kenny's biography, I was so impressed with his schooling and the musical universities he got accepted to and how he struggled to work and study with the best musicians in the world. He's trained and preformed under Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland,Arthur Fiedler and Seiji Ozawa that involved three major universities he had to get accepted in. One of the universities it took him 4 years to finally get accepted on his 4th attempt! The limit of my education after now being retired after 22 years with a career, my only schooling in drumming is my private teacher. I can now read so I took this program and started to work with it and I am very pleased. It's still tricky, but now realizing that Kenny has put more musical exercises in here than I realized at first look from back then. Of all the books I have worked with my teacher, Kenny's material reminds me of Charles Dowd. Kenny to me in my mind is like a modern day Charles Dowd on steroids.There seem to be no reviews on this here, so it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever really was able to do this. This makes me work on it more.Remember the 13 hand patterns. Then all the foot work and ways Kenny breaks it up are already familiar in a sense, given the fact that you already have some basic concepts down. I also found that video on U2b with Drumeo and he goes over this program with an electronic kit, and he even has a double bass routine that is not actually written in the original program. Doesn't need to be. Once you get it down you can sort of pop it off any way you can or like.