All you ever need to know about the funk:
Bootsie and ‘Jabo’ Starks explain the JB’s “One”
-
-
London Drum Show
Check out the London Drum Show on September 4th and 5th at London’s Olympia: www.londondrumshow.com
-
Improve Your Internal Clock
We all need to work on our time keeping. Here is a cool lesson from Joe Crabtree with some exercises you can do even without a kit. Always good.
-
Avoiding Avoidance
Here is an interesting article about not avoiding those challenging things we should be doing (like, er, posting on one’s blog…). “Do you ever dodge your creative work? Say, your practice time arrives, and you race off to do some…
-
Interview with Recording Legend Steve Albini
Here is an interesting interview with Steve Albini. Mr Albini is famous for recording In Utero for Nirvana and annoying the band’s management and label for making the record the way the band wanted it instead of how the accountants…
-
Will you join No Music Day, 21st November?
www.nomusicday.com
-
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?
An interesting article on The Times website suggest that music artists are seeing growth in revenues even as record industry revenues plummet. As a struggling musician, this is the kind of news I find encouraging. It seems to me that…
-
How to get ahead in the new music biz.
Here is an interesting article that prolific music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz linked in one of his emails.
-
Snare tuning tips from Bob Gatzen
Check out this clip from the mighty Bob Gatzen. I recommend his DVD if you want to really learn something about drum tuning. Meanwhile, check out the rest of his videos on Youtube.
-