We must get away from the old military method of drumming and play the Drum part the same lead as the Violin, Saxophone or Xylophone parts. Let’s take a close look at a very old […]
Category: Edward B. Straight
Do your verry best
From Edward B. Straight’s The Straight System, a drum method from 1922, here is a page of performance tips so you can thrive as a society/theater band drummer in the 1910s and 20s: Some of […]
On the varieties of stickings
Here’s a nice geekish piece at by E.W. Flack at The Drumslingers, in which he goes in depth on the history and usage of the three basic sticking methods in US drumming and its derivatives– […]