this type of situation Everybody’s always looking for excuses to spend money on gear, so here’s a concept: rehearsal cymbals. We’ve all played rehearsals where the instrumentation and/or acoustics made it extremely difficult to play […]
Month: April 2018
Three-note syncopation rhythms
Here are a couple of pages of syncopation rhythms in 4/4. Most of them can already be found in Progressive Steps to Syncopation, in one form or another, but sometimes I want to have certain […]
Hand motions for Stone flam studies
It’s a funny thing, there’s endless online conversation about how to play an open roll, and virtually nothing about flams. They’re off the radar for some reason. And with the book Stick Control, NOBODY every […]
Basic short roll studies with continuous motion
UPDATE: Download link is working! I’ve got to stop putting “EZ” on every single normal-difficulty thing I post. This is an easy page of roll studies I wrote to prepare a couple of younger students to […]
Groove o’ the day: Herlin Riley afro groove
I spent about three hours yesterday listening to Kenny Garrett records, which is… he’s great, the bands are great, the records are great, the tunes are actually great, I just… let me put it this […]
Transcription: Art Gore – Sais
More Gore. I came across Art Gore’s playing a couple of years ago, and had an instant affinity with it. He’s not on a whole lot of records, but he’s really great, and is worth seeking […]
More practice phrases for EZ fills
Here are some more practice phrases to use with my page of EZ one-beat fills with tom moves, in a fast 4/4, and a slower tempo with the fill in 32nd notes. On the original page, the […]
Marvin Dahlgren has died
Someone sent me the following note today: My friend, Marv Dahlgren, the great percussionist, and drum book author, has passed on to his celestial reward, at 92 years of age. I visited Marv a few […]
Jazz RUINED MY LIFE and other red-blooded tales
this is what jazz does to you Apparently there is a blog called JAZZ RUINED MY LIFE that is not written by the Napoleon Dynamite guy. It’s about [cue mournful saxophone]: The long drives; the […]
EZ rock drill: cut time / fast 4
This is a fast tempo rock exercise I’ve been using with a couple of students; it combines my EZ rock beat method, and my cut time rock method. It’s very basic, but it will help […]