Looking at two little books co-authored by Peter Erskine and Dave Black— The Drummer’s Lifeline, and The Musician’s Lifeline, subtitled, respectively, as Quick Fixes, Hacks, And Tips Of The Trade, and Advice For All Musicians, […]
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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 […]
Transcription: Peter Erskine – Duo
I don’t know what younger drummers’ current perception of Peter Erskine is, but when I was a student he was one of the top guys, always thought of as being exceedingly musical, with a great […]
Hours
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 […]
Erskine on practicing
An exchange about general practice topics, from Peter Erskine’s 1978 Modern Drummer interview with Gary Farmer. GF: [W]hat would an ideal practice routine consist of? PE: When I work on the snare drum, I try […]
Daily best music in the world: Weather Report
Lots of other action right now, so light posting is going to continue this week, so enjoy 8:30, by Weather Report. Peter Erskine is on drums. I used to set my turntable to repeat, and […]
Daily best music in the world: two drummers
The Modern Drummer website has a decent little list of great double-drumming tracks. I was ready to come down on them for not including the Butthole Surfers, but no, there they are— a bold choice for […]
Erskine on Whiplash!
If you don’t know your subject well enoughto convey the real emotion of it, there’s always this. This is fun— they’ve interviewed Peter Erskine in re: the new smash sensation amazingly great jazz drumming education […]
VOQOTD: Erskine on Keltner and space
When you think of Keltner you think of these delicious, huge gaps, and when that backbeat comes down, it’s just sweet. And the reason it’s sweet is that it’s not filled up with a bunch […]
VOQOTD: on swinging
To me, any drummer who hits the drums too hard doesn’t swing. — Peter Erskine Read the entire Drum! Magazine interview from 2000.
What is HIP?
George Colligan is trying to create a said thing. At his Jazz Truth blog there’s a post highly worth reading, about High Intensity Practicing, or HIP— his phrase— or “practicing REALLY HARD, at a sort […]
Groove o’ the day: Peter Erskine — Clint
Because I like challenging you to hear past things that most people perceive as cheese, here’s a little relic of the later fusion era, by the great John Abercrombie trio with Marc Johnson and Peter […]