Perhaps not the best superlative for a list of books on drumming, but we get the picture. Here I’ve given some brief opinions on the entries in Modern Drummer’s list of 25 timeless drum books. I’ve […]
Year: 2015
Half-time feel funk: basic method
Here’s a basic method for working with the half time feel funk grooves from the other day. We’ll be reading out of Syncopation, by Ted Reed, pp. 10-11 (from the old edition) or Lesson 4 […]
DBMITW: Cherry / Blackwell / Gurtu / Wolcott / Shankar
From the same YouTube user who posted yesterday’s Ed Blackwell videos, here’s a totally amazing concert recording of Don Cherry playing in Neuwied, Germany, with Ed Blackwell, Lakshmi Shankar, Colin Wolcott, and Trilok Gurtu, probably […]
Lost Ed Blackwell
Jon McCaslin @ Four On The Floor has posted some obscure (I’ve never seen them,anyway) Ed Blackwell videos— that’s all you should need to know to get over there and checkum out.
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02
UPDATE: pdf download link fixed! Another batch of Chaffee linear patterns, in a different mixed rhythm than before, in 5/4. There will be four pages of this one; two of the basic phrases, two of […]
Basic cut time funk beats
Today we have a page of basic funk grooves in 2/2— cut time, half-time feel, whatever you want to call it. I haven’t given a cymbal part, because we’ll be doing some different things with […]
Donald Fagen on Whiplash
I’m kind of done with this movie, but I’ll keep sharing choice quotes about it when they come up. Here’s Donald Fagen: “Last night some of the guys in the band were talking about that […]
Stan Freberg 1926-2015
A few clips by comedian, satirist, and ad man Stan Freberg, who died yesterday. His heyday was before my time, but we had several of his albums in my dad’s record collection, and I memorized […]
A waste of time
Here’s a good video in case you ever wonder “Am I wasting my time geeking out on this drumming nonsense? Does anyone really care if I get such-and-such particular little drum thing together?” The answer […]
Snare drum workout in 4/4
Working out of Buster Bailey’s snare drum book Wrist Twisters— one of the great books of technical snare drum studies, by the way— I came across a simple pattern I liked, and I wrote up […]
Brewing
You’re not fooling anyone, photographer— you sprayed the glass with water for that refreshing, weekends- were-made-for-Michelob, oh-I-just-pulled-this-full- pint-out-of-the-ice-chest effect… we’re getting off topic. OK, I’m on such a cold streak blog content-wise right now, I’d better write […]
Joey Baron
Just listening to a little Joey Baron this morning— be sure to listen to the interview at the end. Roulette TV: JOEY BARON from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.