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Untitled 27 Feb 2013 | 11:19 am
I've been in the market for a new snare lately. My factory Gretsch, while fine and certainly workable, is not really cutting it for what I want and overall versatility. I had been looking at deeper sn...
Untitled 22 Feb 2013 | 12:45 pm
This is a great exercise you can do away from the drums to develop your polyrhythms, timing, and coordination. This will also develop the ability to count while your body plays something else. Shown t...
Untitled 22 Feb 2013 | 11:46 am
13 year old Japanese girl performing a cover of what I assume to be a cartoon or popular TV show or something along those lines. Fantastic!
Untitled 4 Feb 2013 | 03:00 am
Matt Wilson for the win! Lately I've been thinking that Matt Wilson is the perfect drummer, and that if I were to ever sound like someone I would love it to be him. Not only does he play purely for t...
Stick Control Variations 1 Feb 2013 | 12:27 pm
Hello again! It's been a long time since my last post. Gigging and teaching has taken up so much time over the last year that the site lost out and fell into oblivion. As usual though, I've been inspi...
Practice Part 3; what it entails and how to do it effectively. 22 Mar 2011 | 01:19 pm
We all love playing otherwise we wouldn’t be drummers. Do we all love to practice though? How can we turn our practice into playing? How can we develop the same passion, creativity and imagination for...
Life is not like a box of chocolates 22 Mar 2011 | 12:38 pm
Life is not like a box of chocolates. Life is like jeans-out-of-a-drier. Let me explain, as I’m sure you’re all dying to know what I mean and thinking to yourselves “How could life be like anything bu...
Practical Stick Control 1: Afro Cuban Stickings 31 Jan 2011 | 06:34 pm
Time. The bane of many a drummer and musician, and I’m not talking about musical time, though that is also the bane of many a drummer and musician. I’m talking about hours and minutes. If you have the...
The Basic Strokes: the building blocks of drumming technique. 30 Jan 2011 | 07:09 pm
Moeller. Gladstone. Freestroke. Push-pull. Heel-toe......Argh! How many more can there be? While these techniques all have their rightful place in drumming, the terms and what they represent have beco...
The Paradiddle Funk Workout 26 Jan 2011 | 01:11 am
A free system for learning independence and accents/non accents for drums in the funk idiom. The Paradiddle: that classic rudiment for the drummer. We all play it even if we don’t know it. It is suc....
