CYMBALISTIC: I payed a brief visit to Cymbal & Gong HQ (aka Tim’s house) the other day, and he had a few interesting things around: They’re making 26″ Holy Grail rides now. I got an […]
Year: 2021
Reed interpretations: special voicing – 01
This came out of the groove part of my recent Country Rock thing. It’s a kind of subtractive method for voicing the snare drum and bass drum. Not unlike my John Riley-inspired “that with interruptions” […]
A few rare items
I found some interesting things on one of those shady pdf download sites— a couple of rare books, and very old versions of a couple of unusual books. Worth getting if you’re into that sort […]
Page o’ coordination: yet another Elvin 5/4
Here’s a page o’ coordination based on Elvin Jones’s playing on Lazy Afternoon, from Grant Green’s album Street of Dreams. It’s a medium slow 5/4— the tempo is about 109. He plays the ostinato below […]
Best books: Rudimental Primer by Mitchell Peters
Mitchell Peters is becoming the guy for snare drum literature, for me— his books form a thorough and complete vocabulary for the snare drum as it is played in the real world. They’re adequately challenging for […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes feature
UPDATE: I have extreme quality readers. Jim in the comments pointed out a bunch of errors in this, and figured out the insane Mystery Lick on the second page. The corrected pdf is up now. New […]
CYMBALISTIC: A lot of new cymbals!
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just posted a bunch of new cymbals on the site— six Holy Grail Jazz Rides, 20-22″, a HG 16″ crash, a 20″ Janovar— inspired by Giant Beat, in B20 bronze— and a couple […]
Charlie Watts meets Stan Levey
Here’s a video my brother mentioned to me— Charlie Watts hanging out with Stan Levey and Jim Keltner back in 2003. Levey was one of Watts’s heroes. Lots of chit chat about Charlie Parker— we […]
Half time country rock with Reed
This swingy country, folky, gospel type of half time feel groove is all over the music of the late 60s/early 70s. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, for […]
Ba-dum tss
This is not a follow up to my death post. You’d have to have some kind of sick mind to post this and immediately die. It would be funny, but… no. Come on. Let’s talk […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Bozzio auditions for Zappa
I had to fly myself down to LA just to audition like the rank and file rest of the people that auditioned for Frank. It was scary, you know, it was ridiculous. I walked in, […]
More reality
Well, you can’t say this hasn’t been an eventful couple of years. I’ve always been a basically healthy guy, and, having no health insurance for most of my life, I’m not in the habit of […]