Forum: Drum Technique
01-14-2019, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 438
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Forum: Drum Technique
01-12-2019, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 438
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-17-2018, 09:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 728
Re: Upstroke in the Orchestra
Good video-- nice to see a classical guy play with the left stick backwards.
I don't consider those to be upstrokes, to me those are just legato full strokes-- the standard stroke you use all the...
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Forum: Drummers
11-16-2018, 12:09 AM
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Replies: 261
Views: 73,704
Re: Tony Williams
Water Babies (https://youtu.be/mNbBaBOgUfc) has been one of my favorite records for a long time. Basically all stuff that didn't make it onto Filles de Kilimanjaro. Everything's kind of unfinished,...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-13-2018, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,964
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-13-2018, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,571
Re: Wrist Twisters vs Stick Control
Cool! I hope you like it. He uses a shorthand for notating some of the stickings. You will probably figure them out, but feel free to ask here if you have any questions-- or just email me directly.
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Forum: General Discussion
11-10-2018, 07:40 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 3,390
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Forum: General Discussion
11-08-2018, 06:15 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,838
Re: Under Rated or Fairly Unknown Drummers
A few of mine:
Art Gore - Cincinnati drummer, played with Lonnie Liston Smith (http://www.cruiseshipdrummer.com/search/label/Art%20Gore)
Son Ship - LA drummer, played on McCoy Tyner's The Greeting...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-08-2018, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,571
Re: Wrist Twisters vs Stick Control
Jeff-- Yes, it's a major work, definitely!
That's what I figured-- maybe you can call them and get a cheaper media rate. Or if you order several things at once-- I don't know if it's...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
Re: Jazz drummers: How do you work on soloing?
That is something you have inferred. You thought I was "judging" you with my first response, and it's been a crap show ever since. Gotta go, buddy, I have a session to play, a bunch of students, then...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,571
Re: Wrist Twisters vs Stick Control
Right-- I think you should mix that up with things you can actually play at normal performance tempo-- find something where you can do a full page of patterns and drill that. Maybe 50/50 hard/slow...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
Re: Jazz drummers: How do you work on soloing?
Well, my threads are never boring anyway. What a crap show.
What's hilarious is that I'm the easiest, nicest serious teacher in the world. Most guys will terminate your studies after three...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-07-2018, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,396
Re: So long story short, I'm a bass player now
Good move-- you'll probably get more gigs. Like a friend of mine learned to play bass when she joined an all-female Merle Haggard cover band, and now she probably gigs more than I do.
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,571
Re: Wrist Twisters vs Stick Control
I don't think you can focus on just one book and learn everything you need. Stick Control is good, but extremely tedious if it's the only thing you're doing. And the musical possibilities of the...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
Re: Jazz drummers: How do you work on soloing?
Every single comment I've made has been substantive, about your initial question.
Like I said, IDGAF about fighting with you, but this is my subject, and I don't need your permission to talk about...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-07-2018, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 581
Re: Got your old method books?
I like that Ron Fink book in there-- Drumset Reading.
That Roy Burns funk book is good, too-- that's from the dark ages of ghost notes. Not a word in there about them.
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,571
Re: Wrist Twisters vs Stick Control
Wrist Twisters is great! Everybody doing a lot of snare drum practice should have it. It is very dense, and many of the exercises require a lot of focus-- you can't just sit down and burn out a lot...
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-07-2018, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
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Forum: General Discussion
11-06-2018, 09:02 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 581
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Forum: Drum Technique
11-06-2018, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 3,572
Re: Jazz drummers: How do you work on soloing?
Hell, I'm one of them. I know how to play. As they do, and Griener, who posts occasionally, and Boomka, who we don't see much of any more.
Playing, in other words-- that's all I ever did....
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Forum: General Discussion
11-03-2018, 03:06 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,850
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Forum: Drum Technique
10-29-2018, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,375
Re: Training protocols for increasing speed?
Well, while we're at it: Can you do it at any volume? Can you do it with any kind of stick or mallet, on any instrument?
I mean, we can get into "can you do any musically useful vocabulary beyond...
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Forum: General Discussion
10-29-2018, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 547
Re: College auditions, where to start!?
It's pretty straightforward: Call the professor and talk to him or her about it— whoever is going to hear your audition, then get a number for a grad student at that school and get some lessons to...
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