I wrote the following when I was still loopy from shooting and editing cymbal videos all day, I take no responsibility for anything I do. There was another forum question, about using quintuplets in jazz […]
Category: Annals of wrong things
Annals of wrong things: UNUSED POTENTIAL
Here’s a little sub-rant of my other recent teaching rant. I wrote this in January, and wasn’t going to post it— it’s kind of silly. But people seem to enjoy these, and it’s not totally […]
Anything at all, with energy
Why do they always look surprised. Today there is two big pieces in The Atlantic about social media advancing some very dark ideas, and about trolling and fascism, so maybe it’s a good day to […]
Drum technique magical nihilist death cult
Submitted without comment, excerpts from an internet forum conversation on drumming speed training “protocols.” “When are you considered to have truly ‘mastered’ a given tempo? For example, I could continually play 16th notes at 250bpm […]
Idiots, you’re doing it wrong. Fools!
This is you trying to play a normal drum set. Ergonomics! The science of putting things where scientists tell you to and shutting up. Our sad devotion to this clearly absurd contraption, the drum set, […]
Annals of wrong things: ride cymbal technique
I try to run a positively-focused, ah, ship around here, and I hope not to make a regular feature out of this, but occasionally things are put before you that you just have to respond […]