Details at cymbalistic.com UPDATE 2: Had a great time at the Celebration of the Drum event on Wednesday. A really nice lady, a student of Seattle drummer Matt Jorgensen, won the 24″ Holy Grail, which […]
Month: May 2019
Tresillo rhythms – EZ rock orchestrations
UPDATE: pdf link works now. I’m doing too many things this week. I’ve been running some students through this, and it sounds good. A more accessible version of my funk control series. Some basic rock […]
Filling a Mozambique
This is something I was working through with a student recently: filling during a Mozambique groove. Latin grooves need to be worked out more than other things, so it’s a good idea to break it […]
Practice loop: Attica Blues
This will put some intensity in your playing: a practice loop sampled from Attica Blues by Archie Shepp. For that I also recommend my loops of Sivad, The Free Design, and Magdalena. By the way: […]
Harmonic coordination practice notes
Hard on purpose. A few notes on practicing my recent harmonic coordination improved thing. I can write a lot of verbiage about this system because it’s very abstract and time consuming, and I want to […]
Guaguanco – two ways
A little more on general fluency with a Guaguanco-type groove on drumset. It’s not a style that authentically uses a drumset, but the groove is a hip alternative for non-traditional situations. It has a nice […]
Holy Grail
A video shared by Sebastian Merk, a great drummer living in Berlin, who teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He’s playing a 20″ Holy Grail jazz ride by Cymbal […]
EZ fill developer
This might be more of an item for teachers. This is a sketch of a method I’ve found to be effective for teaching younger students to play fills, and play them in time, with both […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal videos up
Individual videos of our new cymbals are up. Picking out cymbals in a storage room at Cymbal & Gong HQ is not really an optimal acoustical situation, so when I get them to my studio […]
Harmonic coordination improved – preparation
UPDATE: Here are some additional notes on practicing this. For some time I’ve been trying to work out a way to practice the very difficult “harmonic” coordination section of Dahlgren & Fine’s 4-Way Coordination without […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal day video
UPDATE: Bumping this to the top— there are a couple of newer posts below this… Video of my visit to Cymbal & Gong headquarters in southeast Portland, with company owner Tim Ennis, selecting cymbals for […]
Preparation for Reed triplet studies
A page of short triplet exercises that are preparation for some of the major practice methods I do with the book Syncopation: the right handed solo method, and the so-called “Ruff Bossa” method, found in […]