I’m working on putting last year’s transcriptions into book form today- which, thanks to the miracle of online publishing, should be available for you to purchase shortly. So you’ll just have to enjoy these two […]
Month: January 2012
Other people say good things
It’s a slow writing day for me, but there are lots of good things afoot at our brother drummer blogs right now: @ Trap’d: Inspired by Art Taylor, Ted Warren outlines some easy things you […]
Paradiddle-diddle method for uptempo jazz
This is something I developed for both for getting some relief while playing fast tempos, and for doing a modern feel without getting your cymbal pattern lost in the weeds. The seed of the idea […]
Todd’s paradiddle-diddle interpretation
This is the first practice method for the pages of syncopation exercises I posted the other day. Today I’ll give it to you just for the hands only, then later I’ll show you how I […]
Dave Tough’s Advanced Paradiddle Exercises
Here’s an out-of-print classic, scanned and made available for download thanks to Denver drummer Todd Reid. God knows if it will ever be made commercially available again, or if anyone even owns the copyright, so […]
Syncopation exercises with dotted quarter notes
This is one of many pages of original Syncopation variants I’ve written up, in this case restricted to combinations of dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, and single 8th notes. I’ve devised a few interpretive methods […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham in 17/16
I present this just as a curiosity, because I’ve never encountered this meter anywhere before (maybe in a percussion ensemble piece?). But you can see how we usually deal with the odd #/16 meters; often […]
Drum! mag update
See this issue for my last piece. I’ve just been informed that my new Drum! magazine piece will be printed in the April, 2012 issue, which will hit the streets in February. Visit Drum! magazine […]
Batucada on the drum set
We haven’t done anything new with samba in awhile, because I’m still digesting all of the stuff we’ve done previously. But here’s something new that came up yesterday, using open and muffled tones on the […]
…or, to just fail.
I would add: – Think of your work as being in competition with that of all artists, everywhere, at all levels of the business, past and present. – Imagine that your every creative move and […]
Another Drum! Magazine piece
Oh, hey, it looks like Drum! Magazine is going to publish another piece of mine, “Cross Rhythms Using Stone”, which outlines a polyrhythmic application for using the 3/8 portions of Stick Control in 4/4, on […]
Transcription: three Philly Joe intros
Must do shorter, faster posts. That last one took way too many hours. Here: Get the pdf Get Dance of the Infidels | get Hank by Hank Mobley Get I’ll Never Smile Again | get […]