Another notebook item from the later 80s, as I get my act together following recent personal developments. Cleaning out my mom’s basement, I found a bunch of my old notebooks and music materials. Basically, I’ve […]
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From the zone: ECM feel
Here’s something sent in by Ed Stalling of Missoula, Montana. He mentioned being inspired by my ECM feel post from 2012— which definitely needs to be revisited and some links updated— but he’s got his […]
From the zone: brush things
A little item from Ted Warren, author of the excellent Trap’d blog, who is clearly not suffering from any kind of OCD, having written this upside down on some kind of assignment sheet. I post so […]
From the zone: another Vinnie Colaiuta transcription
We haven’t done a From The Zone post in a long time— handwritten scraps of stuff from peoples’ practice room floors. This one is actually a nice, complete thing, from Toni Canelli in Sheffield, England: a transcription […]
From the zone: Weckl’s paradiddle-diddles
It took awhile, but I finally stumbled across some old scribbled-out exercises conceivably worth sharing as part of this from the zone series. So far the only person brave enough to submit anything has been […]
Chop busters: syncopated flammed 16ths
More rooting around in my archives, with a stealth from the zone item. I found this in one of my notebooks from high school, and it’s worth playing, with some mixed 16th note rhythms with […]
Everything at once
Another archive item— these things are a very welcome brain cleansing for me. This is a clinic handout by Russ Tincher, from when I was a student at the U. of Southern California. Tincher was a […]