So I have basically a one-track mind. Maybe a two-track mind. Three closely-related tracks. Right now it’s all the Elvin waltz and Three Camps. What we have here is a little thing I improvised while […]
Category: rudimental
Three Camps round up
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 […]
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, […]
Rudimental drumming as conceptual art
Here’s a rudimental snare drum piece which I’ve been trying to get my head around for a couple of days now. Written by Ken Mazur, a champion drum corps soloist of the 70’s who went […]
Best books: Rudimental Patterns by Joe Cusatis
Rudimental Patterns Full Drum Set Studies for the Modern Drummer by Joe Cusatis This book contains most of what I always felt was wrong with the traditional approach to learning the drums, and I LIKE […]
Three Camps
This is a traditional rudimental piece going back to at least Civil War days- it consists of accented rolls in a triplet pulsation. Originally it functioned as a sort of camp alarm clock, as part […]