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 […]
Category: From The Zone
From the zone: two-note coordination patterns
From Manuel in Augsburg, Germany. We’ve met a couple of times in my travels— in Berlin and in Augsburg, and I got to help him put together a really nice set of Cymbal & Gong cymbals— a […]
From the zone: ECM feel
Here’s something sent in by Ed Stalling of Missoula, Montana. He mentioned being inspired by my ECM feel post from 2012— which definitely needs to be revisited and some links updated— but he’s got his […]
From the zone: Al Foster intro
Hey, it looks like everyone but me is getting a lot writing done right now. I have a couple more of these “from the zone” items to share— a series where people send in their […]
From the zone: cycling patterns
Since I am completely blocked for writing anything other than profane tweets right now, here are a couple of things from the practice room of our friend in Berlin, Michael Griener. It’s a very elegant […]
From the zone: brush things
A little item from Ted Warren, author of the excellent Trap’d blog, who is clearly not suffering from any kind of OCD, having written this upside down on some kind of assignment sheet. I post so […]
From the zone: fill ideas from Tbilisi
Wrapping up a coo-coo week with some easy stuff. From the studio of Giorgi Lomidze, a drummer in Tbilisi, Georgia, who shares a lot of interesting practice materials on Facebook, here are some pages of ideas […]
From the zone: another Vinnie Colaiuta transcription
We haven’t done a From The Zone post in a long time— handwritten scraps of stuff from peoples’ practice room floors. This one is actually a nice, complete thing, from Toni Canelli in Sheffield, England: a transcription […]
From the zone: Five in seven in six in four
A little Thanksgiving treat shared on Facebook by my friend Steve Pancerev: Let’s walk through this— it’s difficult, but not impossible. I see a jazz rhythm there, and a crazy independent part with a double-beamed […]
From the zone: The Wizard, by Albert Ayler
I’ve been preoccupied the last few days whipping into shape the 2013 Cruise Ship Drummer! Book of the Blog (available for order next week), so here’s a quick little something from my old notebooks: a […]
From the zone: some diddle licks
Easing back into blogging after being away for a few days, here’s something from the notebook of New York-based drummer Chris Stromquist: Visit Chris at his regular site and his Bandcamp site. Again, I encourage […]
From the zone: Vinnie’s paradiddle-diddles
With this next entry we’ve got dueling fusion-era paradiddle-diddle licks, this time by Vinnie Colaiuta. This was sent in by fellow blogger Mark Feldman, who transcribed it back in the day from the 1987 Zildjian […]