UPDATE: Naturally, there are some problematic things— a lot of my images from the old site are behaving strangely, so the older posts might not look real great. I’m probably going to be forced to […]
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Triumph of the worst
UPDATE: Toning this down a bit— mainly removing a very unkind assessment of the American electorate— and moving on. My current state of mind is that I’m not going to worry about all the horrible […]
RIP David Sanborn
So long to the saxophonist David Sanborn. He was one of the great lovers of all kinds of music— you can watch his show Night Music on YouTube, it was on in 1988-90, and he brought on […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Higgins – Mystery Song
Let’s gooo, this is now a full-time Billy Higgins site. Here he is playing a New Orleans/Poinciana/Vernel Fournier kind of groove, on the Duke Ellington tune The Mystery Song, on Steve Lacy’s record Evidence: Swing […]
Hey, you should get drum lessons with me
NOTE: I’m going to keep this pinned to the top of the blog for a little while. Scroll down for new stuff. You know what, I don’t think I get as many students via this […]
CYMBALISTIC: making videos today….
CYMBALISTIC: Making videos of the new cymbals— I think you guys are going to flip for them. There are the three new Extra Special Janavars, one with a heavy patina; 18/20/22″ Special Janavars with a […]
Percussion swap meet in Chehalis, WA tomorrow
If any of you are in… whatever you call that part of Washington state— the I-5 corridor between Olympia and Longview… there’s going to be a drummer swap meet/gathering tomorrow, Sunday, July 17th, at Alexander […]
Reed interpretations: Matt’s double bass method
Here’s a Reed system for double bass drums, made up by a student of mine, with a few tweaks by me. Apply it to the rhythms in Syncopation, pp. 34-37. The first examples will be […]
Shoutout to Eduard in Odessa, and all of our other readers in Ukraine— stay safe.
Funky 7s on the drums
Some street-beat style 7 stroke roll related things that came up spontaneously when I was practicing today. This had a little bit of a funky Maracatu-type street beat feel the way I was playing it— […]
More reality
Well, you can’t say this hasn’t been an eventful couple of years. I’ve always been a basically healthy guy, and, having no health insurance for most of my life, I’m not in the habit of […]