Since I’m often told that the Internet, with its abundance of free materials, is rendering teachers obsolete, I thought I’d put that to the test, searching YouTube for beginning rock drumming “lessons”, and not stopping […]
Category: rock
Problem Child fills
I listened to Problem Child by AC/DC a lot when I was in the 8th grade, and just happened to put it on for the first time in a few years, and realized how much […]
Transcription: Ian Paice — Lay Down, Stay Down
[UPDATE: pdf download link works now!] I don’t get how herds work: suddenly everyone, everywhere is talking about four stroke ruffs. They happen to be all over this piece, played in 16th note triplet form […]
Half-time feel rock using Syncopation
Extending my previous series on making rock/pop beats using Ted Reed’s Syncopation, here is a way of making a half time feel using the same concept, except we play quarter notes on the hihat, and […]
Double time feel / half time feel
Hm, maybe being extraordinarily busy will force me to finally do some things that are actually accessible to people. Here’s another easy thing, illustrating half time feel and double time feel using basic rock beats. […]
Rock in 5/4: Water by PJ Harvey
Here’s a song I was working on with one of my students which happens to be timely since it’s in 5/4— Water, by PJ Harvey, with a great pop drumming performance by Robert Ellis. What […]
Cracking 5/4: rock variations
I wasn’t planning on making this part of this series, but it happened to come up. I was prepping for a recording session today which will involve a couple of tunes in 7/4, and I […]
Transcription: the Birthday break
For once there’s not much to say– here’s one of my favorite drum breaks in the world, played by Ringo Starr on Birthday, by the Beatles: Get the pdf YouTube audio after the break:
Basic beats
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 […]
Groove(s) o’ the day: Jocko Homo
Another curiosity for the groove o’ the day, and the first drum beat I ever learned: Jocko Homo by Devo. Drums by… I forget if it was Bob 1 or Bob 2 [UPDATE: Oh, it […]
DBMITW: The Beta Band
Let’s feature somebody with an actual video for once: A few more after the break:
Everybody Paice out
A couple of old favorites from the heyday of the cowbell and the four-stroke ruff down the drums ending on the bass drum (there’s got to be a better name for that lick): Get Lay […]