2024 UPDATE: Wow, this page looks like crap. See my new bigger and better page of this. This came up in my own practice today— straight conditioning movements around the drums, using the very traditional […]
Category: drums
More on Pinstripes
The distressed font indicates rockingness to me. Ever since reading T. Bruce Wittet’s piece about the drumming equivalent of the fusion mullet, the Remo Pinstripe, I’ve been sort of half-determined to try to them out […]
Stick Control implied rhythms
I hope you dig all of this Stick Control stuff; I just happen to be working with this book a lot right now. One of my reservations I’ve always had about it- about the way […]
Grooves o’ the day: found items
[UPDATE: Link fixed!] I found these inside an old copy of Mel Bay’s Stage Band Drummers’ Guide I just purchased on Ebay: two pages of beats cut out of 1984 issues of Modern Drummer. I […]
More Stone on the drums
Here’s something timely to the ECM feel post. I’ve been using Stick Control quite a bit in my practicing lately- particularly my application in 5/4 (and a similar thing in 7/4), and in fooling with […]
A crash course in the ECM feel
Look for the photos with water and the Helvetica font. The “ECM feel”, as it’s now being called, is a style that evolved in the late 1960’s and 70’s, and has since become one of […]
DBMITW: Jim Gordon
I’m working on a long transcription right now, and am determined to post the entire thing, so for now just enjoy the drumming of studio great Jim Gordon: Several more after the break- also see […]
Getting lost
Or not. Here are a few pointers on a subject with which I am all too intimately familiar: getting lost while soloing over over a form, and while reading: SOLOING First, whatever various hells break […]
Basic solo vocabulary with Syncopation
Hey, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything downloadable of my own, and you don’t want to hear me prattle on about cymbals and crap, so here’s a basic solo vocabulary builder I’ve been working […]
Some observations on a Brian Blade performance
Last night Brian Blade played in town, and I thought I’d share a few impressions from it. I can’t promise they hold any sway outside of that concert as perceived by me from the side […]