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Survival tips for cruise ship drummers

  • May 25, 2011
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My man Willie Blair, the only person I know who could get away with flouting most of the non-musical rules.  I guess I had to actually write about drumming on cruise ships at some point, […]

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Transcription: Frankie Dunlop – Bolivar Blues

  • February 3, 2011
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There is just a ton of good stuff on Jon McCaslin’s Four on the Floor blog– like this little 2010 piece on the great, under-appreciated drummer Frankie Dunlop, who was with Thelonious Monk for part […]

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Learning to comp with 16th notes is a necessary misery.

  • February 1, 2011
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Here I’m elaborating on what some comments in a Drummerworld.com discussion on these pages/recorded example from Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer: I could just be trying to drag everyone else into my […]

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Joey Baron master class, last part: Make Music With Whatever You’ve Got

  • January 25, 2011
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Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994:  last part ELVIN JONES: I worked a gig at the Vanguard with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan, it was like a bebop thing, and Elvin Jones […]

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