Here’s a loop to practice my hip uptempo rock practice method along with— sampled from the fast portion of Bill Frisell’s Child At Heart, from his album Where In The World, which is one of […]
Year: 2017
EZ bass drum workout and double bass developer
Have I not posted this before? This is a variation on my cut time funk method, strictly designed as a bass drum workout. It also makes an excellent double-bass single strokes developer. This should be […]
More Bad News
Comping lesson time— here’s more of that Roy Haynes track Bad News Blues, this time looking at what Roy is playing during the four choruses of the piano solo. The album is Cracklin’, and the […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues
Just a quick little Roy Haynes transcription, from Bad News Blues, from Haynes’s album Cracklin’. It’s short— they play the 12-bar head once before heading into the bass solo— but there are some things to […]
Keith Copeland lesson plan
This is the type of thing I like to share on the blog— a little piece of oral history posted someplace obscure, that could easily be lost, or extremely difficult to find again. This was […]
A funk sticking in context: RLL
This is the first of several easy pages of exercises for developing kind of an essential thing in funk and fusion drumming, which is not quite a fill and not quite a groove— it’s more […]
Clyde died
Clyde Stubblefield Writing appreciations of the recently deceased is not what we are about here, but we can’t really let great drummers pass without notice, either. When I was in school, in the late 80s, […]
Reed method: fast rock – advanced
I hope you— students and teachers— are using my Reed method for playing rock beats. I think it’s one of the better things I’ve come up with— it’s just a more musical way of learning […]
Han Bennink practice tips
Not a lot of action on the other drumming blogs these days, but Ted Warren of Trap’d has this amazing thing for us, courtesy of Jon McCaslin of Four On The Floor, courtesy of some […]
Double paradiddle-adiddle
Look, it’s not my fault. I never told you I was going to have cool names for the things I make up. Direct your derision at the founding fathers of drumming who put us on […]