From the category archives:

Drums

Happy 79th, Count Basie

08.21.2010

From 1964, Corner Pocket featuring Sonny Payne on drums. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Coffee Time – Fred Astaire dancing in 5/4 time – Yolanda and the Thief

08.17.2010

Notice that the song is played in 4/4 time, but danced in 5/4 time! Should be noted that this isn’t a true “5 over 4″ polyrhythm, as the band and dancers are sharing a tempo (i.e. the quarter note is the same). They’re just phrasing things so that the band lands on the shared 1 [...]

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Motherland Music

08.15.2010

With my djembe needing a new goatskin, I dropped it off yesterday at Motherland Music in Culver City. Drum Heaven! The place has a retail showroom, a drum repair workshop, and space for classes and performances. After parking on the street, I followed the sound of drums through the front door of the shop. Turns [...]

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Eminem’s fucking nightmare.

08.04.2010

It’s a great day for lovers of heavy music and bands that actually play instruments. Avenged Sevenfold’s shredding new album ‘Nightmare’ has hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart, ending the five week reign of Eminem. In a world saturated with Justin Biebers and Lady Gagas, it wouldn’t be out of line to proudly raise [...]

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Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare (Official Music Video)

07.22.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video What a payoff. \m/

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Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare widget

06.24.2010

Official A7X Nightmare widget:

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For the counter

06.23.2010

RLRR LRLL RLLR LLRR LRRL RLRL RLRL R/// Below is a simpler and probably better variation. Accent those yanking lefts on the last half of the pattern: RLRR LRLL RLLR LLRL RLRR LRRL RLRL R/// And then loop it into an exercise: RLRR LRLL RLLR LLRL | RLRR LRRL RLRL RLRL | etc.

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Drummer shows up to the wrong gig

06.08.2010

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James Owen Sullivan RIP

05.21.2010

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Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare”

05.14.2010

Just leaked yesterday via their website and Facebook page, A7X will be releasing their first single on Monday, May 17. This’ll be the first time we hear Jimmy’s drum tracks as laid down by Mike Portnoy. The artwork is killer, featuring an extra-spooky likeness of The Rev. Perfection: Dragged ya down below, Down to the [...]

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Buddy Rich & Jerry Lewis – Drum Solo Battle (1965)

04.29.2010

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Mutual muses

04.26.2010

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Buddy Rich meets Hitler

04.19.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The Hitler/Downfall meme lives on. This one revives an early recording of Buddy Rich giving it to the band on the bus after a performance. NSFW; extreme language.

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“Singles” Exercise 26

04.06.2010

Source: Thomas Lang

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Time-lapse of me painting a wall in about 1991

03.19.2010

Just in from Dan! More video footage from a fairly blurry 1991; about an hour crunched into a minute. From the color of the paint, it looks to be the week when we moved Dauz from the Redondo Beach garage to our first legitimate shop on Main Street. I’d be 22 years old. Dan was [...]

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