(h/t Luqman Brown) UPDATE: A very cool article about Bowie’s final album.
Category: rock
Simple one-handed Reed interpretation
UPDATE: Download link is working now… This is a simple exercise which arose while working on my Zigaboo Modeliste-like half time feel funk method. It will be easy to master— it’s fun to work on […]
Groove o’ the day: Hugh Grundy — Time Of The Season
Time Of The Season, by The Zombies, is still in heavy rotation on classic rock stations around the world— if you work in a warehouse, you hear this 2-3 times a week, as you have […]
Rock beats displaced
You’re not going to be seeing much of me for a few days— I’m getting married tomorrow, I’ve got a pre-wedding party today, then a micro-honeymoon at the Oregon coast Wednesday through Friday (the real […]
Daily best music in the world: Red Red Meat
All my writing energy is going into the new CSD! rock-and-funk book, so let’s enjoy some more rock & roll. Here’s a favorite band of mine: Red Red Meat, from Chicago, who put out a […]
Groove o’ the day: Poison Idea — Marked For Life
Here’s one for my student, Max: from an early demo by northwest punk legends Poison Idea. With our Iron Maiden shirts and long hair, my friends and I went to see them play in somebody’s […]
This / not this: grunge
What can I say, I’m feeling nostalgic. This 1994 video of Portland band Iommi Stubbs playing at The Satyricon is pretty much the epitome of grunge every respect— from the horrible recording, to the lack […]
Groove o’ the day: Melvins cover Butthole Surfers
I was re-listening to the videos in this post, and, in honor of music that makes you feel good— contra music that makes you feel nothing— here’s the beat Coady Willis and Dale Crover are playing […]
Half-time feel to regular 4/4
We’ll be marking time a little bit this week, saving up the big, good stuff for our fund raiser, which is going to be next week. As I mentioned in our last half-time feel funk […]
Half-time feel funk: the “Syncopation” section — 01
Here’s a new chapter to our recent half-time feel funk series, using Progressive Steps To Syncopation, by Ted Reed. Here we’re going to get into the “Syncopation” section of the book— pp. 32-44 in the […]
Half-time feel funk: advanced method — open hihat
Here’s the next step for this half-time funk method we’ve been doing, using Syncopation, by Ted Reed. On the intermediate method and on this one we’ll be using the pages with quarter notes, 8th notes, […]
What to do with a beat
Don’t know how to make a variation? Any of thesecould be a variation of the first beat. Why not. If you ever get bored looking at some page of rock beats you’re supposed to be […]