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Month: May 2012

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Show TONIGHT

  • May 30, 2012
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This Wednesday [Update: That’s tonight], at the Secret Society Ballroom in Portland I’ll be playing music from my new record, Little Played Little Bird (which you can listen to, and more importantly purchase in the […]

  • Beatles
  • drums
  • music
  • Ringo Starr
  • rock
  • transcriptions

Transcription: the Birthday break

  • May 30, 2012
  • 2

For once there’s not much to say– here’s one of my favorite drum breaks in the world, played by Ringo Starr on Birthday, by the Beatles: Get the pdf YouTube audio after the break:

  • Jim Keltner
  • Ringo Starr
  • very occasional quote of the day

VOQOTD: Keltner on Ringo

  • May 30, 2012
  • 0

Ringo, Keltner, Levon Helm I will always be there to support him. He’s more than a dear friend. He’s like an idol. He’s everything to me. I still think of him musically every time I […]

  • Bill Frisell
  • drums
  • Groove o' the day
  • grooves
  • jazz
  • latin
  • Paul Motian
  • tango

Groove o’ the day: Paul Motian’s tango

  • May 28, 2012
  • 0

I like this feature, and I’m going to try to do a lot more of these this year. Here’s a hip modified tango played by Paul Motian on the tune When We Go, from Rambler […]

  • Barry Elmes
  • drums
  • Elvin Jones
  • jazz
  • music
  • ride cymbal
  • ride cymbal interpretation

Scholar’s corner: Elvin Jones plays the ride cymbal

  • May 27, 2012
  • 3

We’ll see how long this new feature lasts. I’ve been coming across a good number of scholarly works online, most of them not worth sharing– in fact, I have a draft of a long post […]

  • daily best music in the world
  • jazz
  • listening
  • Miles Davis
  • music
  • Philly Joe Jones

DBMITW: Can YouTube do this?

  • May 27, 2012
  • 0

See, another reason I like my turntable is that I can just reach over and hit one button and it will replay side B of The New Miles Davis Quintet for the tenth time in […]

  • 6/8
  • Afro 6
  • Afro-Cuban
  • drums
  • Elvin's afro-waltz
  • Groove o' the day
  • Horace Silver
  • jazz
  • music
  • Roger Humphries

Groove o’ the day: alternate Afro 6/8

  • May 25, 2012
  • 0

Here is a another, simplified Afro 6/8 groove as played by one of the major session guys for Blue Note Records in the early 60’s, Roger Humphries, here on the tune Mary Lou from Horace […]

  • Elvin Jones
  • favorite albums
  • jazz
  • John Coltrane
  • music

Favorite albums: Impressions by John Coltrane

  • May 25, 2012
  • 0

Cover from my version, the 80’s reissue. Impressions by John Coltrane 1963 – Impulse! John Coltrane – tenor and soprano saxophone Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet McCoy Tyner – piano Jimmy Garrison – […]

  • drum lessons
  • drums
  • lessons
  • music
  • teaching

Lessons are a whole different thing

  • May 24, 2012
  • 0

Metaphor for complexity. It’s easy to wonder if drummers online are giving away the away the entire store with all of the free video lessons, blog posts and whatnot. With such a massive volume of […]

  • downloads
  • exercises
  • rudimental
  • snare drum
  • three camps
  • triplets

Three Camps: all inversions in one

  • May 24, 2012
  • 0

I was trying to work this up on the fly at the drum set, and it wasn’t happening, and I needed to write it out– so here we are. This is a slightly more practical […]

  • daily best music in the world
  • drums
  • Elvin Jones
  • jazz
  • John Coltrane

DBMITW: all Elvin, all the time

  • May 23, 2012
  • 0

This current Elvin binge really snuck up on me. It’s easy to lazily categorize his playing as a style– but then you listen to something like this, which we’ve all heard a thousand times, and […]

  • drums
  • Steve Pancerev
  • Stick Control
  • Stone

Stick Control in triplets

  • May 23, 2012
  • 2

Here’s a good library companion to my Stick Control implied rhythms piece. This was suggested to me by my friend Steve Pancerev— I’m not sure if it’s something he thought up, or if it was […]

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