Just a service update— I’ll be traveling for most of the month of December, and posts will be few. I’m doing a recording in Brussels with last year’s touring band— Jasnam Daya Singh (Weber Iago), […]
Year: 2015
Very occasional quote of the day: Bohemian Rhapsody
“…sometimes it’s just a little voice that tells you that if Bohemian Rhapsody was big in my house, it was probably big in other people’s houses too.” —Mike Myers, fighting to get the song used […]
From the zone: Five in seven in six in four
A little Thanksgiving treat shared on Facebook by my friend Steve Pancerev: Let’s walk through this— it’s difficult, but not impossible. I see a jazz rhythm there, and a crazy independent part with a double-beamed […]
Inverted paradiddle exercises
A page of paradiddle exercises, using the fun and hip RLLR/LRRL inversion. These are written in cut time, and can be played blazingly fast. You’ll notice that the 8th notes are all alternating, except most […]
Page o’ coordination: Latin in 3 — 02
Another page of Latin in 3/4— get the previous one here. You’ll notice these are very similar to our 6/8 Latin pages; the use the same bell pattern, but the BD/HH rhythms are slightly different, […]
Mario Padilla
Via Matt Chamberlain on Twitter, here’s Norteño drummer Mario Padilla. I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time. If you’ve ever played the jukebox in a real taqueria, or tuned into working class […]
Transcription: Joey Baron — Cattle Drive
A little transcription of Joey Baron playing in Bill Frisell/Americana mode on Cattle Drive, from Frisell’s original music for the Buster Keaton film Go West. It’s sort of a beginner’s version of the ricky-ticky thing […]
Wagner in Apocalypse Now
Fascinating piece by Walter Murch, film editor and sound designer on the movie Apocalypse Now, several other Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas films of the 70s, and a lot of other things. Murch tells […]
Laughable myth, or laughable math?
Click here if youcan’t enlarge this So here we have a piece called The 17 Most Laughable Myths Of The Music Industry, by blogger Ari Herstand. It’s mostly OK, except for laughable myth number 3, […]
Groove o’ the day: Hugh Grundy — Time Of The Season
Time Of The Season, by The Zombies, is still in heavy rotation on classic rock stations around the world— if you work in a warehouse, you hear this 2-3 times a week, as you have […]
Daily best music in the world: Peace Piece
Seems like the perfect time of year for this. I had been away from one of my favorite records in the world, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, for long enough that for a moment I forgot […]
Page o’ coordination: overlapping hands – 01
This is a pretty straightforward page of coordination patterns with overlapping doubles between the hands— each exercise has a repeating right-both-left sequence, with a basic hihat part, and a variety of basic patterns on the […]