Following up on my earlier post on feel in samba, here I have gone a little further in analyzing what’s going on with the repinicado/”tripteenth” (Michael Spiro’s term, I believe) thing in samba, and have […]
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Samba Cruzado – third surdo warm-ups
Here are some new preparatory studies for working with samba cruzado, and for getting this third surdo thing happening with the bass drum- I’ve refined my methods a bit as I’ve been working with this […]
Around the drums Max Roach-ily
More good stuff from Bang! The Drum School- a fun page of Max Roach-inspired fills. I like this kind of thing for just practicing getting around the drums- something I never actually did in isolation, […]
Kristen’s rock micro-syllabus
Here I’ve written up a thing I’ve been doing verbally with Kristen, one of my 6th grade students, to acquaint with some of the basic moves in rock-style drumming. Our method has been to run […]
Transciption: Pete LaRoca – Oleo
I must apologize for the light posting- I’ve been occupied with work and with my still-upcoming, really-going-to-happen this time recording session for my new record. Allow me to make it up to you by offering […]
Elvin Jones transcription round-up
I’m working on charts this evening, so here are some links to Elvin Jones transcriptions by other people: Summertime – transcribed by Steve Korn Have I linked to this before? If not, I should have. […]
Matt’s paradiddle thing
This is a straightforward paradiddle exercise I wrote up for one of my students. It ends up a pretty robust page of stuff when you run it in the sequences. Practice each measure individually, then […]
Transcription: Jo Jones – It Don’t Mean A Thing…
Here’s a transcription of Papa Jo Jones playing the intro and head of It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, from a 1970 Black Lion recording, Paul Gonsalves Meets Earl Hines. […]
Todd’s methods: same-handed flam accents
This is something that came organically out of my own playing- it came up again and again in improvising for years before I finally analyzed it. The only place I’ve seen it mentioned since is […]
Transcription from the web: Steve Gadd – Capuccino
Here’s the most recent of many good things from Mark Feldman at Bang! the Drum School in Brooklyn, NY. Feldman was actually one of the winners of the big Modern Drummer contest to win Neil […]