Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer's Guide to Playing ""Backbeats"" on 1 & 3

Habits and traditions are often hard to change, but discovering new and creative ways of rearranging and rethinking established norms is what distinguishes a great drummer and provides endless challenge and possibilities. Turn the Beat Around breaks decades-old routine by examining ""backbeats"" in a whole new light, asking the questions: ""Why are backbeats always played on beats 2 & 4?"" and ""What about playing them on beats 1 & 3?"" By delving into this inquiry, Paul Wertico provides drummers with innovative ways of expanding groove vocabulary, solidifying time, and mastering coordination and limb independence. Wertico has even coined a new word for these types of reversed beats---frontbeats.