About the Book
Contents
The book is self-published. The elements pages are computer printed and contained in a 3-ring binder. The sequence pages are spiral bound to the back cover of the binder. This enables the drummer to practice a pair of elements while paging through the sequence pages independently.
The Basic Idea
The book with sequence pages in view.
Internalization is about combining things. The exercises require the drummer to physically and mentally internalize various pairs of elements (think of these as words) and to combine them with an ostinato (think of this as the language family) in a wide variety of sequences (think of these as the sentences). All four limbs are involved in this process; some will be executing the elements in a given sequence while others will be executing the ostinato.
Message from the Publisher
I first saw pages from Alan's Internalization book while attending a class Alan was teaching at the Berkeley JazzSchool. It was the easiest-to-read most-difficult-to-master practice regimen I'd seen. The results were immediate and enabled me to swing the music with much more ease and intensity. I decided then that the book had to be published. Ben Randall
Enclosed CDs
You can hear all of the examples and transcriptions (as well as some bonus tracks) being played on the enclosed CDs. You'll find them attached to the inside of the back cover. There are 93 tracks of examples on the first CD and 18 tracks on the second.