Another page of Latin in 3/4— get the previous one here. You’ll notice these are very similar to our 6/8 Latin pages; the use the same bell pattern, but the BD/HH rhythms are slightly different, […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Mario Padilla
Via Matt Chamberlain on Twitter, here’s Norteño drummer Mario Padilla. I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time. If you’ve ever played the jukebox in a real taqueria, or tuned into working class […]
Transcription: Joey Baron — Cattle Drive
A little transcription of Joey Baron playing in Bill Frisell/Americana mode on Cattle Drive, from Frisell’s original music for the Buster Keaton film Go West. It’s sort of a beginner’s version of the ricky-ticky thing […]
Wagner in Apocalypse Now
Fascinating piece by Walter Murch, film editor and sound designer on the movie Apocalypse Now, several other Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas films of the 70s, and a lot of other things. Murch tells […]
Laughable myth, or laughable math?
Click here if youcan’t enlarge this So here we have a piece called The 17 Most Laughable Myths Of The Music Industry, by blogger Ari Herstand. It’s mostly OK, except for laughable myth number 3, […]
Groove o’ the day: Hugh Grundy — Time Of The Season
Time Of The Season, by The Zombies, is still in heavy rotation on classic rock stations around the world— if you work in a warehouse, you hear this 2-3 times a week, as you have […]
Daily best music in the world: Peace Piece
Seems like the perfect time of year for this. I had been away from one of my favorite records in the world, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, for long enough that for a moment I forgot […]
Page o’ coordination: overlapping hands – 01
This is a pretty straightforward page of coordination patterns with overlapping doubles between the hands— each exercise has a repeating right-both-left sequence, with a basic hihat part, and a variety of basic patterns on the […]
Jacques Delécluse 1933-2015
The French percussionist Jacques Delécluse has passed away. I frankly didn’t know he was alive; we worked out of his book Méthode de Caisse-Claire in college, and those French-published books present themselves with such authority […]
Sabotage practice loop
This is another fun sampled practice loop, from the opening of Sabotage, by the Beastie Boys. Use this with all your rock and funk materials: