Must play more music where I can just leave the hihats open all day. This is Al Foster’s groove on the tune Billy Preston, on the Miles Davis album Get Up With It; kind of […]
Year: 2014
Page o’ coordination: Elvin waltz, with 16th notes
An big part of the Elvin Jones “thing” (if we must think of it that way), which doesn’t get talked about much, is 16th notes. People instantly think Elvin >>> triplets!, but he played a […]
Scott K. Fish blogs
Something new for you to read while I’m out of town for a few days catching the opening of Family Album, the new rock musical featuring my girlfriend: former Modern Drummer contributer and managing editor […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz — inverted feet
Once you start doing an Elvin-like thing, the pull of that dotted-quarter rhythm can be very hard to resist; it’s effective, it builds tension, and it feels good to play it, but you need to […]
VOQOTD: Marc Ribot on the state of things
From the August 2014 Jazz Times interview with Guitarist Marc Ribot: It’s not an exaggeration to say that the recording industry has collapsed. There’s been something like a 60% collapse. And that last 40% could […]
Site work
ANOTHER UPDATE: The search engine is mostly working correctly now. If you’re looking for something specific and not finding it, open a new window and do a Google search with site:cruiseshipdrummer.com at the beginning of the […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Guinea
OK, this one is definitely a labor of love— that took way too long to finish and proof. But I’ve been living with this piece for a good twenty years, and performing it for much […]
Teachable moment squandered
From an interview with drummer Shannon Leto, of the pop band 30 Seconds To Mars (who are evidently inducing seizures in pre-teens the world over right now) in this month’s Modern Drummer. This exchange, in […]
More options for cheap film rigs
After the last photo post I got excited to do more film photography, and what better way to motivate myself to do that than to BUY MORE GEAR. Usually that’s a bad idea; GAS, the […]