Following up on the subdiving post: you may have noticed that I suggested subdividing 8th notes at slow tempos— not triplets, as you might expect with music like jazz, that is often thought to be […]
Month: August 2013
George Duke 1946-2013
There was some kind of magnetism about George Duke that made you think he was going to live forever, but then it doesn’t work out that way. Hearing him on Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere […]
DBMITW: Manny Oquendo y Libre
Timbalero Manny Oquendo (1931-2009, seen here in red, playing bongos) playing a little gig with his group Libre:
The slow click
There should really be no such thing as slow to the person playing the drums. Whatever tempo the listener is hearing, the player is going to multiply it as necessary to make a comfortable, easily-maintainable […]
Page o’ coordination: metric modulation — 2/3
Part 2 of this little three-page o’… unit. Actually, there are a couple of other previous pages you can work up as well— once you’ve learned any one page of this series, the others are […]
DBMITW: Steve Berrios 1945-2013
Very sorry that the drummer Steve Berrios, who played a lot of great music, passed away this week. On this recording he plays trumpet, as well as drums: More after the break: Playing drumset: On […]
From the zone: some diddle licks
Easing back into blogging after being away for a few days, here’s something from the notebook of New York-based drummer Chris Stromquist: Visit Chris at his regular site and his Bandcamp site. Again, I encourage […]
Gone camping
Back to regular posting in a moment… Waldo Lake, high in the Oregon Cascades. My friend did the Leonardo Di Caprio pose at my behest… that’s my fault…