A few notes on this little practice video I did yesterday on Twitch— hit that link and follow me, please, it helps— working through some things with a medium tempo McCoy Tyner loop. You can […]
Category: videos
Twitchin’ away: Talking about Bellson and whatnot
FYI, I’m not doing nothing while I’m not posting here— I’ve been doing some Twitch streams where I just talk about… stuff. I’m just getting used to talking on camera without a script, essentially picking […]
SITE NEWS: Video activities, Germany
NEWS: You may have noticed the rumblings, some stuff is afoot: CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! on TwitchThis week I’ve been doing some video streams on Twitch— nothing serious, just getting myself on camera playing some of […]
A couple of test streams
Continuing my forays into video, I dipped a couple of toes into the wonderful world of streaming yesterday, on the YouTube and Twitch platforms. I’ll do another one today. I’m really figuring out what this […]
Playing Mozambique
Sorry for that graphic. I promise, no more AI slop. Not much more. Here is more video— I’m recording lots of my practicing right now, as I get my video act together. Here I’m playing […]
Playing Bellson
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 […]
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 […]