Here’s something I’ve been meaning to get to. This question— edited slightly— came up on the Drummerworld discussion forum today: I keep finding tons of new material on line, YouTube in particular, and am constantly […]
Year: 2014
VOQOTD: Dejohnette on chops
The first of many valuable things I’m sure we’ll be mining from the Percussive Notes archives. Here Jack Dejohnette, interviewed by Charlie Perry, says something we hopefully already knew, but which bears repeating: P: You […]
Percussive Notes archives online, and FREE
Well, the Internet just got a whole lot smarter about the drums, and percussion in general. I’m very excited to see that the Percussive Arts Society is now posting the archives of their quarterly publication […]
A Reed method for 16th notes in jazz — reading the quarter note sections
Over the course of a few posts I’ll break down my method for developing jazz comping with 16th notes, using Syncopation by Ted Reed. 16th notes are used a lot in jazz, and drummers neglecting […]
Page o’ coordination: another Afro 9/8
The Book of Intros is coming along nicely, though now it’s in the brutal “not embarrassing myself writing about famous drummer’s playing” phase of construction. I predict it will be ready to purchase by the […]
Groove o’ the day: Jorge Rossy calypso
I’ll try to keep these little quicky-posts coming as I work on our Book of Intros, and a couple of other pressing, revenue-generating, writing projects. This is a little calypso groove by Jorge Rossy, on […]
Page o’ coordination: Out Of This World
For all of these POCs I’ve posted, I’ve actually been writing and practicing quite a few more. Here’s one elaborating on one of the very first entries in this series, but with a more advanced […]
Very occasional quote of the day: put in the time
Good career and work advice from comedy writer and actress Amy Poehler: I’m paraphrasing that great quote from (This American Life host) Ira Glass — basically the sentiment of, “Keep doing it, even though all […]
This / not this: what’s a bass drum for?
First, an eerily-passionless video demonstrating the manipulation of a piece of machinery: a pedal mechanism, which is attached to a product called “a bass drum.” We are left to speculate about what purpose these space […]
Grooves o’ the day: two by Frank Butler
This week I’m hard at work on the new Book of Intros (a collection of transcribed jazz drum intros), and it’s forming up nicely. If I don’t get bogged down in the text part, it should […]