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Reed interpretations: tom ruffs

  • September 11, 2023
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Fun item inspired by watching some Bob Newhart Show reruns— I watched it a lot as a kid, and the drumming on the theme music made an impression well before I started playing.  In the […]

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Hours

  • May 7, 2018
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The true struggle comes in the practice room, facing those drums everyday for 10 hours. — Famoudou Don Moye When I was in college I decided that, at some point in their career, everyone who […]

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Transcription: John Guerin – Backfence Cattin’

  • November 7, 2016
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Here’s some 70s funk in 3/4: Backfence Cattin’ by Tom Scott, with John Guerin on drums. You could call Scott L.A.’s answer to Dave Sanborn— big in the 70s-80s, R&B saxophonists who made some popular […]

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Transcription: John Guerin — Dirty Harry, Main Title

  • June 21, 2014
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Here’s a whole lot of kickass 70s stuff. The drumming here is by John Guerin, one of the great L.A. studio drummers of the era. He plays a large set here, with five concert toms, and, […]

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The Hawaii 5-O fill

  • August 8, 2011
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That’s the term I use for that universal 8th-grade-style fill down the toms effectively applied, ever since it was coined by Ralph Hardimon regarding a concert tom run of mine when I was in Santa […]

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