Practice loop in 6/4 sampled from Magdalena, from John Zorn’s album O’o. Tempo is quarter note = 204, and there is an extra bar of 3/4 on the big figure at the end of the […]
Year: 2019
NOW AVAILABLE: 2018 Book of the Blog / Syncopation in 3/4
The 2018 CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! Book of the Blog is now available to order. It includes all of the downloadable exercises and trancriptions posted on the site in 2018, as well as some grooves o’ […]
Feelings and things you can’t do
Taking a little break from working on the 2018 Book of the Blog, musing about different stages of attitudes about players who can do things you can’t: I want to be able to do that! Beginning, […]
Transcription: Joey Baron – Resistor
Here is Joey Baron playing on Don Byron’s solo on Resistor, from the Bill Frisell album This Land— Baron’s playing on this record is one of the major blowing performances of the 90s. The tune […]
Jazz stick roundup
these 5Bs are kind of like One thing my German friends made me realize is that I use really big friggin’ sticks. For many years I’ve used one stick: the Vic Firth SD-11 Slammer. It’s […]