I recently picked up a stack of Mitchell Peters books, one of which contains several variations on this classic, and it seemed like a good time to round up the various sources and variations on […]
Category: drum books
DBMITW and news
We’ll be on light posting for the next couple of days while I do a bunch of work on publicity for my new record of the music of Ornette Coleman, Little Played Little Bird (which […]
Dave Tough’s Advanced Paradiddle Exercises
Here’s an out-of-print classic, scanned and made available for download thanks to Denver drummer Todd Reid. God knows if it will ever be made commercially available again, or if anyone even owns the copyright, so […]
Dahlgren & Fine and me
4-Way Coordination by Dahlgren & Fine is a major piece of drumming literature that I’ve always had a lot of problems using. There’s been a lot of discussion about it on the Drummerworld forum lately, […]
A stack of books
I got a nice deal on a pile of old books, and I thought I’d just give a quick overview of them, along with representative excerpts. Here, in no particular order: Rolls, Rolls, Rolls by […]
Typos in Wilcoxon
I just received in the mail a copy of an older edition (circa 1969) of Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimental Swing Solos, and confirmed my suspicion that there are some typos in the new Sakal edition. First, […]
A bargain on a great book – UPDATED
UPDATE: The book is now coming up at the usual $99.95 price. Hopefully a few people were able to take advantage while the opportunity was there. It’s still a worthy addition to your library at […]
Things I like: drum writing
Here’s a new feature: things I like about things. Today we’ll talk about something I’m seeing a lot of currently: practice materials. 1. Things that fit on a single page. It’s nice aesthetically. Give me […]
Playing quieter
Miles is going to have to ask you to CTFO. In the past I was regarded as a loud player— I forgot how much, until recently a club owner asked if we would please keep the […]
The DNA of swing drumming
I picked up this interesting book- Charley Wilcoxon’s Drum Method– as one of my local sheet music stores was going out of business. I’d been working with Wilcoxon’s more advanced Rudimental Swing Solos, but this […]