From Anzonio Sanchez’s twitter feed, here’s a video of him commenting on some drumming performances in movies, including School of Rock, Sound of Metal, Whiplash, and some other things. Most of the examples don’t have […]
Category: humor
Time economics of drum videos
Taking a break from a whole lot of teaching, business related emails— there’s a Seattle cymbal meet coming up, and a Germany trip in October— and whatnot. I get irritable when I don’t get to […]
Cymbal size vibe war!
Photo stolen from the cover of The Cymbal Book by Hugo Pinksterboer, which you should own. At last, the definitive guide to the vibes we all get from the various sizes of cymbals. I don’t know why […]
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 […]
Izquierdadiddles
Tenue des baguettes I’ve got 6 hours of driving to do a 90 minute gig today, gang, so I’m going to leave you with this: I spend a good part of my life singing stickings […]
Tom tom sizes rated!
The genesis of this post. Let’s do something dumb: critically assess the full range of tom tom sizes for goodness and badness. Reward the good, denigrate the bad, punish the weak and strange: 6″: A […]
The demon-haunted world: jazz snobs
Here’s a desperation special. When I can’t write much, I pull something not-that-great out of the drafts folder, like this: a few snippets of people battering their insecurities into submission by attacking a mythical demon, […]
New gear rules
NO I’m getting a little punchy from working on this new book, so I just started writing rules about gear. Consider the following to be LEGALLY BINDING. Failure to comply may result in a SUBSTANTIAL […]
Idiots, you’re doing it wrong. Fools!
This is you trying to play a normal drum set. Ergonomics! The science of putting things where scientists tell you to and shutting up. Our sad devotion to this clearly absurd contraption, the drum set, […]
Very occasional quote of the day: conversation
Glass: “Listen to me. Shut the f__ up and listen. I’m trying to compliment you.” Kindler: “I won’t be able to be doing a bit if I listen. If I stop talking, you might be […]