Today’s groove o’ the day is Zigaboo Modeliste’s part from People Say, by The Meters: The 16ths are half-swung in the New Orleans style (“in between the cracks”, as Stanton Moore calls it). Listen to […]
Category: Meters
Time signature figure-outer
Gah! What? I’m not sure my title is actually grammatically correct- a time signature “figure-outer” sounds like a job description, when what we are dealing with is more of a figurer-outer– a method to help […]
Drum! Magazine piece – Inside “Cissy Strut”
This is an educational piece of mine, entitled Inside “Cissy Strut” And Beyond, which ran in the Nov. 2010 issue of Drum! magazine. After reviewing New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore’s book Groove Alchemy for Oregon […]