Polishing my backbeats-playing for kind of a big record date later in August, I’ve been playing along with this track quite a bit: Cabbage Alley, by The Meters; and noting to myself how much more […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Very occasional quote of the day: do what you want
“It’s just like when I was twenty and my father and sister got killed in a car accident. I thought, If this can happen to people, you might as well do what you want— which […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Afro 6
All I can say is, we’re all going to be masters of the 6/8 Afro groove by the time we’re finished here. That’s fine. It’s a lot of fun to play, to listen to, and […]
Toy cameras
When I started taking pictures, I was following the made-up Lomography “ethic”, in which you’re supposed to take your camera with you always, and get pictures of everything and nothing, all the time. The idea was […]
Daily best music in the world: Shuggie Otis
A little Shuggie Otis for you— also check out the GOTD from this album:
Snare drum workout in 2/4
Easing back into posting stuff, this is a short snare drum workout in 2/4, based on a simple accent pattern, developing a quasi-rudimental, flam drag/flam accent/flamacue-thing I improvised while warming up on a practice pad. […]
Lots of other business to tend to
New CD, out now! My apologies for the lack of blogging. I haven’t forgotten about you. We’re in the middle of the big publicity push for my new CD, Travelogue, and have been busy the […]
You’re improvising wrong
Or so says blogger, and composer Aaron Gervais. I thought he was mainly into trolling artists on economic issues, but then I saw this post, “Most Artists Don’t Really Get Creativity”, and I thought, OK, […]
Some cymbals FS, too…
UPDATE: Pictures added! It looks like the Bosphorus and the Zildjian 16″ may be sold— just waiting to complete that sale. While we’re at it I’m going to need to sell some cymbals. Here’s what I’m […]