Just FYI, I have a few things for sale right now: Pearl 12″x7″ snare drum — $150.00 It’s a “popcorn” size drum, but it’s a real drum, well put together, with a nice, fat (8-ply?), maple […]
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Blogger suboptimal!
By the way: for some reason, the search engine on the site has really been sucking of late, and you should not trust it at all. You may have better luck finding what you’re looking […]
Infrastructure for shooting film
No jive app needed. Hey, if you’ve been letting me rile you up with my film-photography cheerleading, and you want to try your hand at it, here is a general list of things you’ll need […]
Transcription: Cabbage Alley breakdown
Polishing my backbeats-playing for kind of a big record date later in August, I’ve been playing along with this track quite a bit: Cabbage Alley, by The Meters; and noting to myself how much more […]
Drums for sale!
At a recording session in 2011. SECOND UPDATE: Pictures added! UPDATE: I went ahead and got those drums, a Sonor Phonic bop kit, so I will be needing to sell the Slingerlands. You can hear […]
Site work
ANOTHER UPDATE: The search engine is mostly working correctly now. If you’re looking for something specific and not finding it, open a new window and do a Google search with site:cruiseshipdrummer.com at the beginning of the […]
Teachable moment squandered
From an interview with drummer Shannon Leto, of the pop band 30 Seconds To Mars (who are evidently inducing seizures in pre-teens the world over right now) in this month’s Modern Drummer. This exchange, in […]
Priorities
From a drum book with the questionable premise and title of Rhythmic Illusions: There is no Chapter 15, FYI. Don’t let this happen to you.
Free Skype lesson at the end of the week.
If you want to get in on the drawing for a free Skype lesson, now’s the time to become a member of the blog (see the sidebar), and/or complete my user survey. I’ll be picking […]
Survey time!
I kind of snuck this into the Skype post, but I have put together a user survey, so if you could please take a moment to fill it out, I would really appreciate it. “So […]
Too triplety
1-&-A-2-&-A-3-&-A Just a some thoughts on a few lines from the introduction to Ari Hoenig’s book Systems: “In jazz or other triplet-based music, melodies which are written as eighth notes are often swung (played with […]
Our first-ever FUND RAISER
“Hell, I need you…” —Champ Kind A hearty “thank you” to everyone who contributed in 2013! And thanks everyone for reading— the fund-raiser proper is over but your support is always welcome. -tb Well, as […]