Just in case any one needs to see it written out, here is my preferred primary exercise for developing doubles, which I referenced in the YouTube open roll round up. Each note should be played […]
Month: March 2015
YouTube round up: open roll technique
It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these, in which I go on YouTube and comment on the things brought up by searching a basic drumming term; punishing the guilty, rewarding the innocent, and […]
2015 Europe tour
We’re on light posting for a few days here, clearly, while I’m focused on some other stuff. LIKE MY 2015 EUROPE TOUR; it looks like we’ll be on the road from approximately December 2-21, 2015. […]
Very occasional quote of the day: “You shouldn’t be able to do that.”
A pull from Ethan Iverson’s Whiplash/Buddy article, which deserves its own space: A story about Mel Lewis: Mel hated giving lessons, but finally a kid talked him into letting him come by a record session […]
Rational Funk with Dave King
Bad Plus drummer Dave King’s Rational Funk series of videos are pretty genius, and hilarious: They brought me to mind of the old Book of the SubGenius, a blurb on the back of which goes […]
Brazilian 3
Continuing our recent batch of downloads for odd meter Samba and Bossa, here are some parts for putting together some grooves in 3/2, or in 6/4. This isn’t an incredibly odd meter for Samba, but […]