Oh, hey, it looks like Drum! Magazine is going to publish another piece of mine, “Cross Rhythms Using Stone”, which outlines a polyrhythmic application for using the 3/8 portions of Stick Control in 4/4, on […]
Year: 2012
Transcription: three Philly Joe intros
Must do shorter, faster posts. That last one took way too many hours. Here: Get the pdf Get Dance of the Infidels | get Hank by Hank Mobley Get I’ll Never Smile Again | get […]
On “feathering” the bass drum
what is this The word refers to playing quarter notes lightly on the bass drum as part of your jazz time feel. They used to call this playing the bass drum— I never heard the […]
Brushes… fast… hoo…
As I finish up the thing I’m working on, do yourself a favor and visit The Melodic Drummer for an excellent post on playing brushes at really, really fast tempos. You can also brush up […]
DBMITW: The Beta Band
Let’s feature somebody with an actual video for once: A few more after the break:
Transcription: one hour with Live Evil
This morning I sat down with one of my favorite pieces of music- Sivad, from Miles Davis’ Live Evil, with Jack Dejohnette on drums- to see what I could do with it in a reasonable […]
Dahlgren & Fine and me
4-Way Coordination by Dahlgren & Fine is a major piece of drumming literature that I’ve always had a lot of problems using. There’s been a lot of discussion about it on the Drummerworld forum lately, […]
CSD!’s 2011 in review
Jeez, has it only/already been a year? I started 2011 with this “terse announcement”, my second blog post in four years: “I’m about to revive this sucker somewhat. Look for more music-related items and odd […]