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 […]
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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 […]
Service announcement
Sorry for the lack of posts– I have a ton of stuff lined up, including a big sale on cymbals, but there’s a massive internet service outage in Portland thanks to an ice storm. And […]
Beginning of the end
Well, that was the longest week of my life. I’m still recovering, and after I’ve recovered I probably won’t want to write about this. I hope everyone is celebrating the electoral defeat of the most […]
2019 in review
2019 basically = billionaire blood diamond heir rampages around Los Angeles making up new traffic laws to promote downright ugly vanity truck. Let’s take a break from me inching painfully towards completion of the new 2019 Book of […]
Four drum solos
After Ginger Baker finally died the other day, I was thinking about his playing, and the playing of some of the other big drummers to come out of the late 60s. I listened to a […]
An EXCELLENT time to support the blog
UPDATE: I’m going to keep bumping this to the top of the site this week, but I will be posting every day, so scroll down for new content. It has been a long time since […]
I’m in Germany
Wow, after weeks in airline booking hell, we actually made it to Germany– to Berlin, the city I actually bought the tickets for, and only a day late. I’ll tell you the story about what […]