Free Introduction to Konnakol Course from Asaf Sirkis
Asaf Sirkis has released a free course called Mastering Rhythm With Konnakol which is an easy, step-by-step introduction to using Konnakol in a way that is useful to Western musicians.
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Rhythmania Snare Drum Solo From Charles Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimantal Swing Solos
I’m working my way through Charles Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimental Snare Drum Solos. I missed learning this stuff when I was a young drum student and am enjoying the challenge of reading and executing these solos. This piece has highlighted my…
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Flam Stomp From Charles Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimental Swing Solos
I’ve been enjoying getting into Wilcoxon’s Modern Rudimental Swing Solos. This is just the second one, I’ve not learned much stuff like this before. I think my rendition is a bit on the brisk side and I could improve the…
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Mark Guiliana’s Exploring Your Creativity On The Drumset
Mark Guiliana’s new book, Exploring Your Creativity On The Drumset is the second drum education publication I paid for via crowdfunding. Before that was Benny Greb’s The Art & Science Of Groove. It’s rather fun to be involved in funding…
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Afrobeat Drumming – Beats Of Tony Allen, Book Review
OK, I think it’s obvious by now that I’m really in to the drumming of Tony Allen and Afrobeat in general. When I got into Afrobeat, I looked for teaching materials to help me develop my Afrobeat chops. There weren’t…
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Cruise Ship Drummer’s Book Of The Blog 2015
Todd Bishop of the Cruise Ship Drummer Blog has released his Book Of The Blog 2015 which is a dead trees compilation of drumming exercises and transcriptions from the past year’s blog output. Todd is a prolific blog poster and…
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Shameless Plug for A Couple of Cruise Ship Drummer Books
Just a quickie to let you know that the Samba and Bossa book (wot I reviewed in my last post) by the Cruise Ship Drummer is now available in dead tree format. Also the Book of The Blog 2014 is…
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New Cruise Ship Drummer Book – Playing Samba and Bossa Nova: A field Manual for Drummers
Todd Bishop over at the Cruise Ship Drummer blog never ceases to amaze me with his prolific output. His recent publication is a Kindle book called – Playing Samba and Bossa Nova: a field manual for drummers. It costs in…
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Drumming DVDs About Musicianship Not Chops
Since I just wrote a review of Jojo’s DVD about feet, I thought I should do a bit about some DVDs I know which are all about the music and don’t waste much time on technique. These are videos that…
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Jojo Mayer’s Secret Weapons 2 Is All About Feet And Pedals
It promised to be ?The most comprehensive guide to foot technique for drummers ever available? and it is. Well, I imagine it is because I haven’t actually seen the other available guides to feet but this DVD is so amazingly…
