Metal Drumming Concepts: Vital Beats, Exercises, Fills, Tips & Techniques is a unique book/CD combo essential for heavy metal drummers featuring helpful instruction from Andols Herrick, longtime drummer for Chimaira. The topics covered include: double bass beats; hand exercises; time signature manipulation; the blast beat; drum & cymbal fills; and more. Each concept is thoroughly explained and notated in the book, and then demonstrated up close by Herrick himself on the accompanying DVD.