UPDATE: Video and playing notes about the 22s is here. News re: Cymbal & Gong cymbals As you may know by now, I’m getting into selling some cymbals through the site, made by Cymbal & […]
Month: September 2018
On hearing other drummers sound bad
A few thoughts that occurred to me while playing a jam session last night. I was the house drummer, and a couple of different people sat in who were playing some problematic stuff. The first […]
Groove o’ the day: Rhumba
The Rhumba was a North American Latin style popularized in the 1930s by people like Xavier Cugat and Perez Prado, which has continued to hang around in the repertoire of jazz groups. There are also […]
Wilcoxon weirdness
More on rolls, from a discussion on the Drummerworld forum. Look at this very strange piece of writing from Charley Wilcoxon: From Wilcoxon’s All-American Drummer If you analyze what is written here and try to play […]
Todd’s funk drill – another tweak
Another small tweak to my Reed-based funk drill, improvised by a very talented 6th grade student of mine. It’s very obvious, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. Maybe I did, […]
Page o’ coordination: cymbal on the &s
Please forgive my lack of posting— I’ve been spending this last week on video and cymbal related stuff. As I mentioned before, soon we’re a) adding video, and b) selling Cymbal & Gong cymbals through […]