Unless you just live for peeling away factory packaging, or have some kind of sick virginity fetish. Following up on my previous piece on this subject— to get good, cheap cymbals now, all you have […]
Month: February 2014
Survey time!
I kind of snuck this into the Skype post, but I have put together a user survey, so if you could please take a moment to fill it out, I would really appreciate it. “So […]
Groove o’ the day: Mel Lewis — Jive Samba
Mel Lewis plays a funk groove. The tune is Nat Adderly’s Jive Samba, and the album is Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, Central Park North, from 1969. The intro has some fun tom fills, so […]
Skype lessons coming soon
OK, then: starting in March, I’ll be offering private lessons via Skype. And as I get my act together teaching this way, I think I’ll give away a few free lessons. Let’s do it like […]
VOQOTD: Elvin’s epitaph
“You got to remember, music is all about love.” —Elvin Jones From Drum Therapy: Elvin Jones 9/9/27-5/18/04, by Adam Mansbach, a very moving Jazz Times piece about Elvin’s last days. [h/t to AA]
Book review!
Hey, there’s a nice little review— my first book review ever, actually— of the 2013 Book of the Blog at Joe The Drummer’s place: “There is a theme of the 3:2 polyrhythm running through the […]
Groove(s) o’ the day: On the streets of Aba, Nigeria
I loved this video so much I wanted to lay on you a transcription of the whole thing, but we’re going to have to settle for just getting the basic groove. I hit a wall […]
Transcription: Ringo Starr — Isolation
I hate to keep beating up on our man Kollias— well, I’m not beating up on him, I’m making serious points about music… OK, I wasn’t making a serious point about music with the last […]
This/not this: death metal
By popular request (well, one guy), here’s another one of these— we’ll take this in reverse order: Not this: This: [h/t to Bo] Bonus Melvins after the break: Hog Leg, from Eggnog, still my favorite […]
Another page of Brazilian rhythms
Here is another page of Brazilian rhythms, written in 4/4. The last set was written as 8th and 16th notes in 2/4, the native meter of much of Brazilian music, but when playing lead sheets […]
C.K. Ladzekpo’s basic polyrhythms
From the This portion of the recent This/not this: polyrhythm post, I’ve written out C.K. Ladzekpo’s list of basic polyrhythms every Ewe learns while growing up, along with our now familiar 6/8 bell pattern: You […]
“When in doubt, groove.”
Branford Marsalis’s drummer Justin Faulkner gives a drum clinic at the Seattle, and says lots of great stuff: Part 2 is after the break: [h/t to S_Funk at Drummerworld]