“A kid who doesn’t have to whack the drums to me is kind of missing something. He is going to buy a bunch of pads and not even know what it is like to lay […]
Category: Vinnie Colaiuta
From the zone: another Vinnie Colaiuta transcription
We haven’t done a From The Zone post in a long time— handwritten scraps of stuff from peoples’ practice room floors. This one is actually a nice, complete thing, from Toni Canelli in Sheffield, England: a transcription […]
Transcription: Vinnie Colaiuta / Nightwalker
In the past I’ve posted some fairly cheesy things— with a purpose— but I’m afraid I’ll really lose you on this one (“This, he wants us to like THIS???”). But sometimes you have to be […]
Transcription: Vinnie Colaiuta — Beat It With Your Fist
It is law that I must do an ultra-hairy Vinnie Coliauta transcription every time I do a fund raiser [Have you contributed yet? Please do. -tb], so here’s Beat It With Your Fist, from Frank […]
Very occasional quote of the day: new music
“And I said, ‘How about you? Who’s your favorite drummer?’ He said, ‘Tony Williams.’ And I didn’t know who Tony Williams was, so the next day I went to a record store, and on the […]
Groove o’ the day: Vinnie Colaiuta — The Central Scrutinizer
The pdf links for last week’s Zappa features are now down, so, to assuage the pain for those of you who missed them, here’s Vinnie Colaiuta’s drum groove from The Central Scrutinizer, the opening track […]
From the zone: Vinnie’s paradiddle-diddles
With this next entry we’ve got dueling fusion-era paradiddle-diddle licks, this time by Vinnie Colaiuta. This was sent in by fellow blogger Mark Feldman, who transcribed it back in the day from the 1987 Zildjian […]
Oh, hey…
Judging by this check I just received in the mail, I apparently have an article in the April, 2013 issue of Drum! Magazine— my third. Hopefully that’s still in the stores. The piece is my […]
Gary Chaffee linear patterns
In the coming days we’ll be doing a little extension of a thing found in vol. 3 of Gary Chaffee’s Patterns series— an appendix, really— and since that’s not an everyday title like Reed or […]
Vinnie Colaiuta Q & A
Here’s 37 minutes of audio from the question and answer portion of a Vinnie Colaiuta clinic. He opens with some discussion of playing in 19/16 on Keep It Greasey, from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa […]
My Vinnie Year – part 4 – PASIC, 1985
Here is what’s available of Vinnie Colaiuta’s performance at PASIC in 1985, which has since become somewhat legendary, and I was lucky enough to see in person. The quality is poor- plus there is such […]
My Vinnie Year – part 3 – superimposed metric modulation
This is a technical piece by Vinnie Colaiuta, which accompanied his 1987 Percussioner magazine interview, and he now shares with us on vinniecolaiuta.com. I spent considerable time with this- way too much, actually, considering that […]