Finishing up a long Ed Blackwell transcription, so while U wait, here’s a pretty classic Afrobeat groove from Tony Allen. The tune and album are No Agreement, by Fela Kuti: The variations and fills are […]
Year: 2014
Transcription: John Guerin — Dirty Harry, Main Title
Here’s a whole lot of kickass 70s stuff. The drumming here is by John Guerin, one of the great L.A. studio drummers of the era. He plays a large set here, with five concert toms, and, […]
Groove o’ the day: Todd Bishop — The Secret Agent
I’ve got a bunch of unfinished stuff on deck, so we’ll just keep doing GOTDs until I can get it together and be a writer. And what the hell, let’s do one of me. The […]
Tape for sale, cut up
Need to get rid of that horrible ring in yer snayer drum? Well, these guys are selling a product that may be said to be the answer: As the man said, that drum sounds awesome. […]
Safe to buy Wilcoxon again?
They obviously don’t quite get why people are buying these books, but OK. Here’s some good news: a student of mine brought in a new copy of Charley Wilcoxon’s Rudimental Swing Solos, and it appears […]
A cheap portrait lens for your Nikon digital SLR
Just did a little photo job, and realized something I should’ve figured out years ago— well, it something I knew about, but wasn’t exploiting. If you aren’t conversant in basic camera lingo, you might want […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz in 4/4
It could look an awful lot like I’m phoning it in with all of these Pages o’ Coordination— well, I am phoning it in, a little bit, but that’s not to say the pages aren’t […]
Groove o’ the day: more Public Enemy
…aaand another rocking groove from The Bomb Squad, this time on Bring The Noise, from Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions… album. Again, this is a composite of programmed and sampled grooves, which […]
Rik Mayall 1958-2014
Very sorry to have lost comic legend Rik Mayall yesterday. He was best known in the US for The Young Ones and small parts on Black Adder, but my favorite thing of his was The […]
Stick Control on the drums: RLRL and LRLR
UPDATE: The link is now working. All reet, I’ve gotten my hallway and kitchen painted, and finished getting my teeth and gums viciously probed, if only for the time being, so let’s get back to […]