“…you should start with a crash and end with a crash. I see drummers ending with a crash cymbal, but then choking it. When you hit that big chord at the end, let it ring. […]
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Kernels of Cascara
My students have been doing so well with my “kernels” concept that I’ve decided to write up a real challenge for them: cascara with the clave in the left foot. It was the hip thing […]
Favorite albums: Ballads by Paul Bley
Ballads by Paul Bley 1967 – ECM 1010 Paul Bley – piano Gary Peacock, Mark Levinson – bass Barry Altschul – drums Compositions by Annette Peacock This is kind of a funny entry to this […]
First-inversion paradiddles around the drums
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 […]
Buy a turntable, redux
Four sides, five bucks. I finally took my own advice and got a turntable- a fancy late 80’s Kenwood digital tracking model, my original Sony from 1982 having bitten the final big one after several […]
VOQOTD: listening
Because it bears repeating: Through listening alone you can find ALL the answers. – Jamey Aebersold
Free jazz handbook
That’s free as in free beer, not as in Albert Ayler. Jamey Aebersold, the godfather- I guess- of jazz playalongs, has a very useful book covering the basics of jazz improvisation of available as a […]
Light posting
Still on light posting, through the weekend most likely, while I finish up some other projects. So enjoy some Dom Um Romao: A whole lot more of Dom after the break:
Drum chart: Along Comes Mary by Cal Tjader
Pillaging the archives while I’m working on tour/book-related junk, I turned up another Cal Tjader drum chart, written by me a couple of years ago. I’ll try to do more of these in the future- […]