This volume explores a musical approach to developing jazz vocabulary around the drum set, featuring 60 exercises ranging in duration from short passages to extended solos. The book aims to teach a fundamental understanding of the jazz language, with an emphasis on musical components, such as melodicism, articulation, phrasing, texture, dynamics, and much more. Whether a beginner or seasoned pro, jazz or rock drummer, or classical percussionist, this book will enhance every drummer's ability to play more musically.