Here’s a question that comes up often, and which I always I feel I have to address every time I have a new student buy Ted Reed’s Progressive Steps To Syncopation: “Whuh— this is just […]
Category: best books
Best books: Odd Meter Calisthenics by Mitchell Peters
Odd Meter Calisthenics for the Snare Drummer by Mitchell Peters – 79 pages I own several books by Mitchell Peters, and though they’re mostly excellent, I approached this one with caution. I was not wild […]
NOW AVAILABLE: 2015 Book of the Blog
2015 Book of the Blog UPDATE: I’m going to keep this pinned to the top of the blog a little while longer, so scroll down for new posts. The 2015 Book of the Blog is […]
Best books: The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set by Ed Uribe
Buy the book Leafing through a copy of Ed Uribe’s book The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set, you may be inclined to Google Map the location of the nearest bridge, and then drive […]
Quick takes: MD’s 25 timeless drum books list
Perhaps not the best superlative for a list of books on drumming, but we get the picture. Here I’ve given some brief opinions on the entries in Modern Drummer’s list of 25 timeless drum books. I’ve […]
New Mel Lewis biography
There’s a book I’m reading right now, in preparation for doing a proper review, which a lot of you will want to buy regardless of what I say about it. It’s a new biography of […]
2014 Book of the Blog now available!
2014 Book of the Blog Scroll down for new posts— I’ll keep this pinned near the top of the blog for a few days. All right, continuing our frenzy of new product, the 2014 Book […]
Holiday special on books and Skype lessons!
Scroll down for new posts— I’ll be keeping this pinned to the top of the blog this month. UPDATE: This is the LAST DAY OF THE SALE, so get these while they’re a little bit […]
New CSD! e-book: Bossa Nova / Samba Field Manual
UPDATE: Thanks for the review, Kenneth! Time to unveil one of the things I’ve been doing instead of delivering the promised Book of Intros, which is languishing maybe 3-5 hours of work away from completion, stupidly… […]
Hell of books
YAAAAHHH! AAAHHHH!! This has been sitting in my drafts folder awhile, and seems timely, as I’m encouraging you to buy my new Bossa/Samba book, and am discounting my previous ones: One thing there is no shortage […]
Safe to buy Wilcoxon again?
They obviously don’t quite get why people are buying these books, but OK. Here’s some good news: a student of mine brought in a new copy of Charley Wilcoxon’s Rudimental Swing Solos, and it appears […]
2013 Book of the Blog now available!
Now I remember why it takes me so long to do these things; it’s a lot of work, even when 98% of the content is already written. But! The 2013 Book of the Blog is […]