Biggest longest transcription we’ve done here in some time. This is Jack Dejohnette playing on Timeless, another essential recording by John Abercrombie. Jan Hammer also appears. I got my copy of this album at Rasputin’s […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Daily best music in the world: Louis Hayes
While I finish a long Jack Dejohnette transcription, and work on my new cymbal-related web site, here is a Louis Hayes album from 1960, shared on Twitter this morning by Ethan Iverson:
Figure Control: 4/4 – Nexus riff
Let’s do one of these for the rhythm in the Nexus practice loop. You’ll recall, with this Funk Control / Figure Control series what I do is take a single performance rhythm and put a […]
Three Cymbal & Gong 22s
Here are the videos for those three Cymbal & Gong 22″ cymbals, which I picked out for my friend Jakob in Munich to hear. I don’t have gram weights for them, but the Holy Grail […]
Left handed rudimental study – 01
This relates to my old, old same handed flam accents post, and my more recent left hand lead developer post. This is very left hand-intensive, with a lot of those same-handed flam accents I like […]
Selecting cymbals
Cymbal & Gong cymbals at Revival Drums I want to give a little context for the late talk about cymbals; mainly, what I think is good and bad, and my thinking when hand-selecting Cymbal & […]
Practice loop: Nexus
Practice loop in 4/4, sampled from Nexus by Gateway— a trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Jack Dejohnette, that put out a couple of records in the 70s, and again in the 90s. This […]
Cymbals news: 22s in stock, Germany trip
UPDATE: Video and playing notes about the 22s is here. News re: Cymbal & Gong cymbals As you may know by now, I’m getting into selling some cymbals through the site, made by Cymbal & […]
On hearing other drummers sound bad
A few thoughts that occurred to me while playing a jam session last night. I was the house drummer, and a couple of different people sat in who were playing some problematic stuff. The first […]
Groove o’ the day: Rhumba
The Rhumba was a North American Latin style popularized in the 1930s by people like Xavier Cugat and Perez Prado, which has continued to hang around in the repertoire of jazz groups. There are also […]