Here’s a rare bone for my younger/beginning-er readers. What we have here is a collection of basic “rock” beats- really they’re good for many/most varieties of popular music using the drum set. The names I’ve […]
Category: grooves
Groove o’ the day: Gainsbourg
I love 70’s studio drumming. I was just re-listening to some old Serge Gainsbourg stuff- I made a record of his music in 2009 and did a couple of little Europe tours with it- and […]
Groove o’ the day: Freddie Waits
This is a hip stick-and-brush thing Freddie Waits plays on the intro to If You Go Away, from Ray Bryant’s 1967 album Slow Freight. The regular note heads on the snare drum line are played […]
Grooves o’ the day: found items
[UPDATE: Link fixed!] I found these inside an old copy of Mel Bay’s Stage Band Drummers’ Guide I just purchased on Ebay: two pages of beats cut out of 1984 issues of Modern Drummer. I […]
All the grooves from Still Bill
Today we’ve got all of the grooves from the Bill Withers album Still Bill, with drumming by soul master James Gadson: Notes: – Swing the 16th notes on “Lonely Town, Lonely Street”. – Bass drum […]
Transcription: James Gadson – Use Me
I guess we could also file this under Groove o’the day. While I’m getting some longer posts together, here are James Gadson’s drum breaks from the song Use Me, by Bill Withers. As you’ll notice […]
Groove o’ the day: Predator by Omar Hakim
Another new “of the day” feature that is going to be nothing like daily. But I’ll post them now and then, and it will be on a day, hence the… never mind. This is the […]
Things to do with a beat
Writing by making lists of things- it’s just where I’m at right now. This is a quick run down of one of the main jobs/avenues for creativity on the drums- the manner in which you […]