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Getting around the drums: the ultra basics

  • August 1, 2015
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A quick little page of stuff on getting around the drums with one hand, and both hands. In the first part I’ve basically written out the collection of tom moves we use with the Pages […]

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Todd’s tom tom thing — part 1

  • May 29, 2014
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This is something that has come up organically in my own playing, which I’ve been trying to get a handle on more systematically— we saw a little bit of this before with my “quasi-African” tom […]

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Additional tom moves

  • October 3, 2013
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If like me you’ve been working the hell out of the pages o’ coordination (me, I’ve been hitting the Afro 6/8, the 6/8 Rumba clave, and the page of Mozambique) you may be getting a […]

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Tom moves revisited

  • August 14, 2012
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I’ve been using these moves around the drums a lot in my own practice– if you’ve been working with the Elvin’s Afro Waltz series, you probably have too– and have evolved them slightly, so I […]

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