CYMBALISTIC: OK everyone, I’m heading to Germany today, with a case of wonderful Cymbal & Gong cymbals for your approval, enjoyment, and merriment. The deets: I will show cymbals in Frankfurt on Wednesday, Berlin on Friday, […]
CYMBALISTIC: playing some 22s
CYMBALISTIC: OK, I got a couple more cymbals before heading to Germany tomorrow. Demonstrating some 22″ Holy Grails for our man in Berlin, Michael Griener. And my new little 14″ China is in there, too. All […]
Elvin isolated
Obviously I’m posting really lightly lately, getting ready to head to Germany next week, so: here are some recordings Elvin Jones plays on, with his drums isolated. Enjoy! Here’s Passion Dance, from McCoy Tyner’s album […]
CYMBALISTIC: Last new cymbals before Germany!
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve posted the videos for the last four Cymbal & Gong cymbals I got for my upcoming mini-tour… next week I’m bringing a case of cymbals to Germany for people to play and purchase. […]
Transcription: Philly Joe trading
Here is Philly Joe Jones trading eights and fours with Bill Evans on Minority, from one of my favorite records, Everybody Digs Bill Evans. It’s a good tune to learn. I’ve written just the drum […]
Four on the floor
It is said that, on the drum set, there are snare drummers and cymbal players— I would also say there are bass drummers and hihat players. I’ve always been a hihat player— meaning, I’ll often […]
Rhythm fills – dotted quarter and half note space
Minor little item, that can be done by itself as an elementary thing, or that can be used along with Syncopation. I wrote it to work through some fill alternatives within a right hand lead […]
Book review: Note Groupings and Combinations for Drumset
Giving a shout out to, and a few comments about, a new book by Jeff W. Johnson: Note Groupings And Combinations For Drumset. Johnson wrote another good book, The Level System— pretty much the definitive […]
Warm ups for Alan Dawson’s “Para Bossa” system
Alan Dawson’s Para Bossa system, from John Ramsay’s book, The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary, is a way of interpreting exercises in Ted Reed’s Syncopation as 16th note paradiddles, and extended paradiddles, with a samba rhythm in […]
Transcription: Peter Erskine – Duo – 04
Here are the next 30 seconds / 32 bars of Duo, played by Peter Erksine and Bob Mintzer, from Mintzer’s record Hymn. The whole track is about three and a half minutes long, so there […]
CYMBALISTIC: Playing some cymbals
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just been doing a lot of cymbal-related business for people lately, and these are a couple of quick-and-dirty videos I made for that. Playing some different combinations of 20 and 22″ Extra Special Janavars, […]
Transcription: Peter Erskine – Duo – 03
And here’s the next 30 seconds of Duo, played by Peter Erskine and Bob Mintzer, from Mintzer’s record Hymn. This begins at 0:59 in the recordings. The last line is solo drums, next entry they’ll be trading […]