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 […]
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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 […]
On the field with a great drum line
Sorry for the preponderance of video clips of late— what can I say, we’re a little scattered this week. This is a remarkable recording made by an old drum corps colleague, Nathan Beck— he wore […]
Gone camping
Back to regular posting in a moment… Waldo Lake, high in the Oregon Cascades. My friend did the Leonardo Di Caprio pose at my behest… that’s my fault…
Crap!
A TECHNICAL NOTE: With the mid-90’s siren gif and everything, so you know it’s serious. Evidently our downloads have been, ah, down— inoperative— for a couple of days now, without my knowledge. The problem is […]
“What’s with that constant cymbal tapping in jazz drumming?”
HEY ROACH, what’s with the constant cymbal tapping? “…and why do they use the exact same beat on every song? And who invented this awful, one-man-band percussion concept, with the abrasive and irritating sound of […]
Blocking drumming-related spam
Thanks, we get it: “you’re a restaurant”, now please GTFOOMF. After months of becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the results my drumming-related web searches, this week I installed the Google search results blocker extension to my […]
State of Minnesota to artists: drop dead
A couple of Minnesota artists, Venus DeMars and Lynette Reini-Grandell, are the subject of a punitive audit by the state department of revenue, for the crime of not making enough money: “We’ve had several meetings […]
Old
You are Tom Bosley. From one of my political blogs, here’s a Twitter exchange highlighting something I’ve become increasingly aware of. First, Carl Newman of the New Pornographers: The distance in time between ’77 punk […]
NEW: guide to the archives
This blog covers so much stuff that, if you’ve just been browsing around hoping to get lucky, you’ve probably missed a lot of things you’d be interested in; so I want to direct your attention […]
The melodic drummer
Short and boring, but a melody. Not to be confused with the excellent blog of the same name. I’ve gotten involved into some fairly contentious discussion of the role of melody in drumming recently, so […]