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The drums tell stories when played by masters. The traditional chanting with the drum elicits the spiritual sanctuary of slaves aboard...

Also Ralph Towner / Batik, IIRC....

I guess it depends on the length of the stop. How many songs have a stop of longer than one bar, where someone could actually lose the...

Make friends with the other snare drummers and see if any of them want to pad out outside of class time.

Right, you'd have to play exceptionally well, or be dismissed as an outsider to the scene who doesn't understand the music. That would...

What are you going to do with it, I guess. Have you worked something up with it where it makes sense to use it in that context. And who...

Every drummer should definitely read the book: http://santamonicapress.com/stan-levey-jazz-heavyweight/ I also made a little playlist on...

The book Peak is apparently the actual research that Gladwell was reading to come up with his jive. It's good to understand how people...

No theory, it's just another cymbal. Hopefully it contrasts with the main cymbal somehow-- lighter/heavier, maybe a little brighter or...

I am in awe of what black artists have given to us all. Can you imagine life without that?. Every now and then I give thanks to the Lord...

Learning to use the motors of traditional grip effectively is enough of a feat in itself. Piling learning to play a completely...

Just hit the thing, make adjustments the whole rest of your career.

It depends on the height. Higher = more tilted towards you, lower = more tilted away. You want to strike the drum with the stick at a...

is that event still going

Recently not happy at all, I'm a foreigner living in UK, a European foreigner and I really don't feel quite happy at all, I'm not one...