The Keanu firing his gun up in the air and going AHHH scene of the movie. Well, the sensational jazz education/drumming melodrama Whiplash is now in theaters at last. You’ll recall I abused it pretty […]
Month: November 2014
The useful from the useless
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to get to. This question— edited slightly— came up on the Drummerworld discussion forum today: I keep finding tons of new material on line, YouTube in particular, and am constantly […]
VOQOTD: Dejohnette on chops
The first of many valuable things I’m sure we’ll be mining from the Percussive Notes archives. Here Jack Dejohnette, interviewed by Charlie Perry, says something we hopefully already knew, but which bears repeating: P: You […]
Percussive Notes archives online, and FREE
Well, the Internet just got a whole lot smarter about the drums, and percussion in general. I’m very excited to see that the Percussive Arts Society is now posting the archives of their quarterly publication […]
A Reed method for 16th notes in jazz — reading the quarter note sections
Over the course of a few posts I’ll break down my method for developing jazz comping with 16th notes, using Syncopation by Ted Reed. 16th notes are used a lot in jazz, and drummers neglecting […]