I don’t know how many local readers I have, but if you’re in Portland, you should go see Billy Mintz give a drum clinic, followed by a concert with his quartet tomorrow evening— follow the links […]
Year: 2014
Dahlgren & Fine workout in 3/4
Here’s a triplet workout in 3/4, using 4-Way Coordination by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine. The idea is fairly obvious, and has certainly occurred to a lot of people, but it might help for me […]
NAKED CLICKBAIT: ten pieces of drumming equipment you should throw away TODAY!
I don’t know, I just felt like writing an inane Buzzfeed-style listicle a few weeks ago, and I’m tired of looking at this in my drafts folder. Please don’t be offended if one of your […]
VOQOTD: rudiments just made up by a couple of guys
Well, not exactly: many or most of them have been in use for a couple of hundred years at least, but the 26 Standard Drum Rudiments as a thing… read this letter to Percussive Notes by William […]
A Reed method for 16th notes in jazz— reading 8th notes
Continuing our previous Reed interpretation for comping with 16th notes in jazz, this time using the 8th note section of Syncopation— pp. 10-11, or “Lesson 4” in the new edition. The written rhythms on those […]
“Whiplash“ reviews coming in
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 […]
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 […]
Page o’ coordination: another Afro 9/8
The Book of Intros is coming along nicely, though now it’s in the brutal “not embarrassing myself writing about famous drummer’s playing” phase of construction. I predict it will be ready to purchase by the […]
Groove o’ the day: Jorge Rossy calypso
I’ll try to keep these little quicky-posts coming as I work on our Book of Intros, and a couple of other pressing, revenue-generating, writing projects. This is a little calypso groove by Jorge Rossy, on […]