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 […]
Category: books
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 […]
Book review!
Hey, there’s a nice little review— my first book review ever, actually— of the 2013 Book of the Blog at Joe The Drummer’s place: “There is a theme of the 3:2 polyrhythm running through the […]
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 […]
Lighting round: four new books
New to me, anyway— I think these have all been around awhile. I thought I’d give my rapid-fire opinion on some things I just got in the mail: Daily Drumset Workout by Claus Hessler We’ll […]
HFS III: the book reviewening
NOTE: This is something I started writing some months ago, never quite finished, and was unsure I even wanted to post it if I did. I’m putting it up now just to share some thoughts […]
Good reading
Ignore the model’s bad posture, tucked-in muscle shirt, and Bay City Rollers hairdo, and buy the book. If you’ve worked with Ted Reed’s Syncopation in any serious way you’ve probably sensed that it has a […]
State of things
Here’s an interesting preview of Who Owns The Future?, a new book by tech guy Jaron Lanier, who discusses the current free everything/donated labor/winner-take-all paradigm, and what it bodes for the middle class and democracy […]
Gary Chaffee linear patterns
In the coming days we’ll be doing a little extension of a thing found in vol. 3 of Gary Chaffee’s Patterns series— an appendix, really— and since that’s not an everyday title like Reed or […]
Best books: the Dahlgren & Fine rock book
Complete Text for the Rock and Roll Drummer by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine Really Good Music Publishing 66 pages When Really Good Music Publishing reissued a raft of Marvin Dahlgren titles last year, I […]