More rooting around in my archives, with a stealth from the zone item. I found this in one of my notebooks from high school, and it’s worth playing, with some mixed 16th note rhythms with […]
Category: From The Zone
From the zone: Danny Gottlieb solo break
Another archive item— lots of action around here right now, and not a lot of time to write. And I just found some more of my old writing. I wrote a lot of drum stuff […]
From the zone: SD chops
Another notebook item from the later 80s, as I get my act together following recent personal developments. Cleaning out my mom’s basement, I found a bunch of my old notebooks and music materials. Basically, I’ve […]
Everything at once
Another archive item— these things are a very welcome brain cleansing for me. This is a clinic handout by Russ Tincher, from when I was a student at the U. of Southern California. Tincher was a […]
Time is money
Another funny item I dug out of my archives. I believe it’s from the jazz festival at UC Berkeley in 1989— I was there playing with USC’s guitar ensemble. A bassist and drummer gave a […]
From the zone: feel the groove
Cleaning out my mom’s house I found a box of all the siblings’ music materials that she saved, including a bunch of my archive items, that are pretty interesting. The thing below was written and […]
From the zone: left hand developer
Here’s a cool little exercise from a great drummer from Los Angeles, Sinclair Lott: You can see what’s happening there— a table of time with a RLL sticking, with accents on the downbeats. Which makes […]
16th note exercise for brushes – solo
Continuing this thing— playing the the 16th note pages from Reed with brushes, with accents and bass drum additions hastily scribbled in while practicing. Here’s the 20 bar solo on p. 23. > = accent / […]
16th note exercise for brushes
Another cut and paste item. I don’t practice brushes nearly enough, so yesterday I was hitting that a little bit. Poking around for things I needed to work on, I settled on these pages from […]
5/8 control, part 2
Hastily scribbled practice notes It has been an interesting journey this week, preparing this challenging music— moderately challenging, I guess; there are a few grooves in time signatures I’m not used to, but I’m being […]
From the zone: Zappa transcription project
Daniel Bédard in Montréal did a really cool project: “I challenged myself in trying to transcribe one FZ song a week for a year. That year came to an end last September and due to […]
From the zone: Snare Conditioner
This was not a legitimate FTZ submission, but I am bequeathing it with that title because this is EXACTLY the kind of crap you’re supposed to do when holed up in your studio because of […]