Here’s some interesting chitchat from Stewart Copeland where he compares the way classically trained or orchestral musicians play by the eye with the way we rock and jazz musicians play with the ear.
The kids who attended Ebony & Ivory’s half-term band workshop have turned in a stellar performance. The Songs Watermelon Man with Sami on drums Theme From The Good, Bad & The Ugly with Hristian on drums You Really Got Me with Sami on drums Misrilou with Hristian on drums Theme From The Good, Bad & The Ugly with Sami on drums Personnel Andre – Vocals and Lead Guitar Uzair – Guitar Cliffmark – Keyboard Hristian – Drums & Percussion Sami… Read More »Our October 2018 Half-Term Band Workshop Performance
The Bad Plus drummer Dave King gives a load of great insights about improvising on the drums including suggestions about ways you can practice improvising. An inspiring and informative video about a subject that can seem almost esoteric at times. You should definitely watch this.
This is an interesting informational animation about how practice works from TED. Go slow and practice your moves accurately. Concentrate and avoid distractions. Myelin sheaths…
I was extremely flattered to be contacted by the nice lady from Makers4Good the company that produces the Backbeater tempo measuring gadget. They offered to send me one that I could keep in return for me writing a review. Wow! I’ve really made it. Someone wants to know what I think. Of course I agreed to try it out. The Backbeater is fairly useful for measuring your tempo if you’re playing grooves with a steady two and four backbeat but… Read More »Review of The Backbeater – Musical Tempo Monitoring System
Go figure! Here’s a curious video of a sort of jam session with Bernard Purdie and Tony Allen and their bass players. It’s quite entertaining. Tip of the hat to Anil Sahinoz of www.afrobeatdrumming.com?.
This is a recently released redo of Rob Brown’s original tom tuning video. It’s a very simple and clear explanation of how to tune your toms starting with the floor tom. Rob shows you a quick and easy way to get a useful sound for most rock and pop applications. This tuning method will get the toms to their lowest tone. From here you can explore tuning up into funkier and jazzier sounds. If you’ve been struggling to get your… Read More »New Quick & Easy Drum Tuning Video From Rob Brown
Here’s a great way of approaching double strokes. Rob Knopper explains a method to help you develop “machine-gun” doubles. In other words, a very even sounding double stroke roll. You need to figure out for yourself how you’re going to get the second stroke to be louder than the first. My doubles came together when I learned to use my middle finger as a spring. I can also use my fingers to help as well as a little whip of… Read More »Rob Knopper Shows Us 4 Steps To Build Machine-Gun Doubles
I find the the grooves of Cuba as applied to the drum kit to be very challenging. I have a functional Mambo that I got from Chuck Silverman’s Practical Applications book. A student of mine contacted me ans warned me he wants to learn to play a Mambo for an upcoming performance and I thought it would do me good to brush up and maybe stretch my facility some. This video by Bobby Sanabria is a basic Mambo pattern which… Read More »Bobby Sanabria Teaches Us How To Play A Mambo On The Drum Kit
Sarah Thawer is a great drummer I’ve never heard of. Here she gives a brilliant lesson on translating some Indian grooves to the drum kit. Fantastic, I’m looking forward to learning some of this.