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Three bloggers: technique

  • May 11, 2021
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“Technique we always think of as being a thing having to do with fastness, [but] technique is, in its highest sense, is the ability to handle musical materials.” “You could get to a point where […]

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The three bloggers listen to Milestones

  • March 8, 2021
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Yer Three Bloggers— myself, Ted Warren @ Trap’d, and Jon McCaslin @ Four On The Floor— decided to listen to Milestones by Miles Davis, and make whatever comments occur to us. It’s one of his […]

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  • Jon McCaslin
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The three bloggers: the left foot, the hihat

  • February 18, 2021
  • 1

New series: Fellow drumming bloggers Jon McCaslin (Four On The Floor), Ted Warren (Trap’d), and I are colluding on a series of posts, in which each of us independently write about the same topic. Whatever drumming-related […]

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