Here’s a video I made yesterday— there was a slight online mishegoss over me not liking the Reading Text In 4/4, by Louis Bellson, and it was requested that prove myself by playing one of […]
Category: videos
Something strange
This person is making a lot of videos composing accompaniment for drum solo videos by some well known players, “adding music”, as he says. The first few minutes explain this was done, then there’s an […]
My objections to drumming videos
Posting this instead of the bilious, totally unproductive anti-YouTube drumming video rant I was working on, entitled Satan’s Vomitorium. Don’t worry, it wasn’t any good, or even finished— you’re not missing anything. See this post […]
We get mentioned on YouTube sort of
Hey, it looks like one of my posts was a catalyst for a video by a semi well-known opaquely-named YouTuber. He has been the victim of some kind of smear campaign to make his videos […]
Anything at all, with energy
Why do they always look surprised. Today there is two big pieces in The Atlantic about social media advancing some very dark ideas, and about trolling and fascism, so maybe it’s a good day to […]
Why I hate “drum lesson” videos.
The guy making the thing has to guess what parts of it you’re not going to get, and guess how to explain it in a way you’ll understand, meanwhile wasting everyone else’s time who either […]
How to really play jazz drums
I received this question by email: I wondered if I might trouble you with a small query about a video I recently watched: It’s called ‘How To (Really) Play Jazz Drums’ and it’s presented by a […]
How to play the brushes, part two
I had never seen this before: Steve Gadd playing on a 2″ tape box. Along with Ted Warren’s videos, the only instruction you need for brushes: (h/t to Who Is Tony?)
The way drum instructional videos should be
30 seconds long, no explanation, no BS, no nothing except everything you need to know about the subject: More of Ted Warren’s excellent series of brush videos after the break:
Light posting
I’ll be on light posting for a couple of days while I finish up a bunch of Ornette Coleman arrangements for an upcoming recording session. In the mean time, enjoy a whole mess of Paul […]
Billy Cobham with Horace Silver
Here’s a fun clip of Billy Cobham playing Nutville with Horace Silver in 1968. And there’s Bennie Maupin on tenor. It’s awfully strange seeing Cobham playing a four piece. Tip-o-the-stick to Drum to Life for […]
The only two videos available.
Another great post at Jon McCaslin’s Four on the Floor– the complete Elvin Jones documentary Different Drummer– reminds me of how scarce information used to be. Up through at least the beginning of my college […]