I’ve probably posted this before, I don’t care. A record forgotten by everyone, released on Impulse! about the time I was going to school in LA, at USC. I listened to this a lot, and […]
Month: March 2023
Hand dominance: still bull
Advertising a belief. Yes, hand dominance is still bull. At least with regard to drumming. It happened again this week: a new student, right handed, who had never hit a drum before, automatically led everything […]
Wilcoxon’s Junior Drummer
I’ve had this copy of Charley Wilcoxon’s book The Junior Drummer* lying around for some time, let’s take a look at it, see how it holds up for modern usage. I have the Ludwig Masters […]
EZ Fast Rock Lesson
This page functions both as a page of easy stuff for beginners, and as basic vocabulary for fast-tempo rock drumming. There are a lot of patterns, deliberately. This’ll be many students’ first shot at processing […]
Limitations of loops
There’s a good post about playing along with recordings, that everyone should read, over at Ted Warren’s Trap’d blog. Since he commented about playing with loops vs. whole tunes— and I do a lot with […]
3/16 Control – 02
A very dense page today, but it’s not for you, it’s for me. I was practicing the original 3/16 Control pages along with my Watermelon Man loop, and thought some of the permutations would be better […]
Very occasional quote of the day: the way they got built
“I’ve never really been interested in the books that do things like analyze Sonny Rollins or Coltrane solos because I’ve never seen one that breaks them down in the same way they got built.”– Melvin […]
Counting system overhaul – 02
I was working on this last year, and never posted part 2, because it was an unreadable mass. Still is. But for people who teach and deal with this subject every day, here we go: […]
CYMBALISTIC: New cymbals are in!
I just picked up a small order of cymbals from Cymbal & Gong, videos for which will be coming at the end of the week. There’s some very interesting stuff— here are my first impressions […]