I just saw this from brother writer Jon McCaslin, over at the excellent and much hipper-named Four On The Floor blog: a Syncopated Stick Control method, which he’s using to bring some rhythm interest to practicing Stone. […]
Category: Four on the Floor
Four on the floor: Stone meets Ghana
Here’s something very rare, an idea to base your whole life on: Stone-type patterns based on Ghanaian bell patterns. This is from Jon McCaslin over at Four on the Floor, given to him by the […]
Very occasional quotes of the day: from Elvin
Jon McCaslin at Four On The Floor has posted a collection of quotes from Elvin Jones, collected by Adam Nussbaum. Here are two of my favorites; there are many more at FOTF: “Thad told me […]
Mel Lewis rub-a-dub
Well, we ignore the blog Four On The Floor at our peril. I hadn’t visited in awhile, and then yesterday, BLAM, there’s a great post with a video from Chris Smith— he’s the author of The View […]
Massive brain dump
Blogger is acting funny this morning, not letting me upload images, so instead maybe you should visit Jon McCaslin’s Four On The Floor for a trove of great stuff he has posted under the innocuous […]
Ed Shaughnessy 1929-2013
I couldn’t possibly improve on what Jon McCaslin has said about the passing of this great drummer, so just go read his notice.
Googled: “Elvin Jones triplets”
What the heck, we haven’t done a “round up” style post in awhile. Here’s a quick survey of Internet lore, briefly reviewing some of the information returned when you google “Elvin Jones triplets”: First, the […]
Go watch now
The Max Roach story, at Four on the Floor. Here’s part 1/7:
Other people write good things
Of excellence. I haven’t been giving my fellow blogs enough love recently, but they’ve been producing a veritable tidal wave of excellent stuff: Trap’d has a long post about playing with large ensembles, with an […]
Other people say good things
It’s a slow writing day for me, but there are lots of good things afoot at our brother drummer blogs right now: @ Trap’d: Inspired by Art Taylor, Ted Warren outlines some easy things you […]
Something key
Jon McCaslin presents a very core principle of modern jazz drumming, via a lesson from Alan Dawson. The 3/8-within-4/4 polyrhythm has been present in a variety of forms in jazz since the beginning, and became […]
A growing community
Following up this post by Mark Feldman, I thought it would be good to direct your attention to my drumming blogroll, in case you somehow are not a regular follower of them already. There are […]