all guitarists until proven otherwise I received this question in the mail today: What are you looking for in a guitar player? What strengths/capabilities do you feel are the most important? Any thoughts on common […]
Month: September 2018
Cymbal & Gong and me
Public service announcement: You’re going to have to put up with a lot of ranting about cymbals in coming weeks and months. I’m in the process of developing a web site for selling Cymbal & Gong […]
Daily best music in the world: Ronald Shannon Jackson with Albert Ayler
Ronald Shannon Jackson playing with Albert Ayler on the Live at Slug’s Saloon album, recorded in 1966. Jackson wasn’t recorded a lot at this stage of his career, and it’s really interesting to hear him […]
Very occasional quote of the day: soloing
“My idea of a drum solo is that you play like you sing. It comes from different things you listen to. And the beauty is always in the simple things.” — Kenny Clarke, from 1984 […]
Three Camps video roundup
Just checking out various people’s interpretations of the traditional rudimental snare drum piece Three Camps. A long time ago I did a round up sources of written versions; here we’re looking at videos and audio recordings. We’ll […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Timeless
Biggest longest transcription we’ve done here in some time. This is Jack Dejohnette playing on Timeless, another essential recording by John Abercrombie. Jan Hammer also appears. I got my copy of this album at Rasputin’s […]
Daily best music in the world: Louis Hayes
While I finish a long Jack Dejohnette transcription, and work on my new cymbal-related web site, here is a Louis Hayes album from 1960, shared on Twitter this morning by Ethan Iverson:
Figure Control: 4/4 – Nexus riff
Let’s do one of these for the rhythm in the Nexus practice loop. You’ll recall, with this Funk Control / Figure Control series what I do is take a single performance rhythm and put a […]
Three Cymbal & Gong 22s
Here are the videos for those three Cymbal & Gong 22″ cymbals, which I picked out for my friend Jakob in Munich to hear. I don’t have gram weights for them, but the Holy Grail […]
Left handed rudimental study – 01
This relates to my old, old same handed flam accents post, and my more recent left hand lead developer post. This is very left hand-intensive, with a lot of those same-handed flam accents I like […]
Selecting cymbals
Cymbal & Gong cymbals at Revival Drums I want to give a little context for the late talk about cymbals; mainly, what I think is good and bad, and my thinking when hand-selecting Cymbal & […]
Practice loop: Nexus
Practice loop in 4/4, sampled from Nexus by Gateway— a trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Jack Dejohnette, that put out a couple of records in the 70s, and again in the 90s. This […]