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Transcription: Cabbage Alley breakdown
Polishing my backbeats-playing for kind of a big record date later in August, I’ve been playing along with this track quite a bit: Cabbage Alley, by The Meters; and noting to myself how much more […]
Site work
ANOTHER UPDATE: The search engine is mostly working correctly now. If you’re looking for something specific and not finding it, open a new window and do a Google search with site:cruiseshipdrummer.com at the beginning of the […]
Teachable moment squandered
From an interview with drummer Shannon Leto, of the pop band 30 Seconds To Mars (who are evidently inducing seizures in pre-teens the world over right now) in this month’s Modern Drummer. This exchange, in […]
Free Skype lesson at the end of the week.
If you want to get in on the drawing for a free Skype lesson, now’s the time to become a member of the blog (see the sidebar), and/or complete my user survey. I’ll be picking […]
Too triplety
1-&-A-2-&-A-3-&-A Just a some thoughts on a few lines from the introduction to Ari Hoenig’s book Systems: “In jazz or other triplet-based music, melodies which are written as eighth notes are often swung (played with […]
On the field with a great drum line
Sorry for the preponderance of video clips of late— what can I say, we’re a little scattered this week. This is a remarkable recording made by an old drum corps colleague, Nathan Beck— he wore […]
Gone camping
Back to regular posting in a moment… Waldo Lake, high in the Oregon Cascades. My friend did the Leonardo Di Caprio pose at my behest… that’s my fault…
Crap!
A TECHNICAL NOTE: With the mid-90’s siren gif and everything, so you know it’s serious. Evidently our downloads have been, ah, down— inoperative— for a couple of days now, without my knowledge. The problem is […]
State of Minnesota to artists: drop dead
A couple of Minnesota artists, Venus DeMars and Lynette Reini-Grandell, are the subject of a punitive audit by the state department of revenue, for the crime of not making enough money: “We’ve had several meetings […]