Please don’t ask me about the title of this piece— I just wrote the first two words I thought of. I think there’s a Billy Taylor tune called Cuban Capers I played once… it’s not […]
Month: May 2013
Annals of wrong things: ride cymbal technique
I try to run a positively-focused, ah, ship around here, and I hope not to make a regular feature out of this, but occasionally things are put before you that you just have to respond […]
State of things
Here’s an interesting preview of Who Owns The Future?, a new book by tech guy Jaron Lanier, who discusses the current free everything/donated labor/winner-take-all paradigm, and what it bodes for the middle class and democracy […]
Groove o’ the day: funk samba
Today we have a studio-funk style samba by Ivan Conti of Azymuth, on the tune Manhã, from the group’s 1974 self-titled album: The right hand alternates between the bell of the cymbal, and the regular […]
Page o’ coordination: 5/8 + 5/8 — 01
Another page o’ coordination in 5/4. From the amount of time we spend dealing with playing in 5, you might get the impression that I think it’s pretty damned important. I really don’t, but it […]
Todd’s routines: 4:3 with Dahlgren & Fine
Hey, we haven’t made up a new feature in awhile, so here’s one: Todd’s routines. I’ll outline any of my current practice routines which are unique enough to be worth sharing, but not original enough […]
Transcription: Dougie Wright — La Décadanse
This makes a nice companion piece to the recent Azymuth thing— they’re both pretty cheezy, with a lot of big tom tom fills. The song is La Décadanse, by Serge Gainsbourg. I can’t find a […]
State of Minnesota to artists: drop dead
A couple of Minnesota artists, Venus DeMars and Lynette Reini-Grandell, are the subject of a punitive audit by the state department of revenue, for the crime of not making enough money: “We’ve had several meetings […]
Much more to do with 5/4
If you’ve been using the pages o’ coordination we’ve been doing around here, you’re going to like what Sam Nadel has been posting recently— a whole bunch of stuff on playing in 5/4. He doesn’t […]
Groove o’ the day: Blues in Elf
Here’s something from what I’m hoping will be the second volume of books of 100 Grooves, this time dealing with odd meters— we’ll see if I can track down enough interesting things to merit a […]