Drums

Avery Molek, 6-Year-Old Drumming Prodigy, Performs ‘Hot For Teacher’ [VIDEO]

03.29.2013

I can’t stop smiling. Locking down that boogie-woogie shuffle with the feet for four minutes ain’t no easy thing. Good job, little dude.

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GrandStand Jam

02.01.2013

Headed over to the Norwood the other night to check out GrandStand Jam. After bandleader Styxxx graciously announced the release of Under Angels, they got me up on the drum kit for a couple songs. Guitarist Romeo Maxx led my set; we started with a slow blues number, then funked it up. ↑ Drummer Styxx [...]

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A timeline of a percussionist’s thoughts while performing Ravel’s Bolero snare drum part

01.30.2013

(via Internet)

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Studio Multitracks

01.29.2013

Uh-oh. I recently discovered some isolated guitar tracks on YouTube, allowing me to jam along with some favorite classic tunes (minus drums) on a practice pad. Drum karaoke, if you will. Here’s a site that’s pulling isolated tracks from the past fifty years and dumping htem into one centralized location. From Elvis to the Beatles [...]

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With Steve More a.k.a. “The Drummer at the Wrong Gig”

01.26.2013

With Steve Moore, NAMM 2013. You know him from this:

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\M/eytal

01.26.2013

With Meytal Cohen, NAMM 2013. Mad skills. She’s known for running drum clinics on her YouTube channel. Is now nailing down Eulogy by Tool. Calls Danny Carey one of her favorites. Just posted, Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare:

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With Gary Ponder

01.25.2013

With drum witch Gary Ponder, NAMM 2013. We met twenty years ago. Back then he turned me on to Gary Chester’s The New Breed, and gave me a cool three-bar exercise I’ve carried with me through the years. Play eighth-note triplets, with displaced accents. Accent the first triplet in the first bar, then the second [...]

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With Dan Dauz

01.25.2013

With my old pal Dan, NAMM 2013.

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Displaced paradiddle accents

01.20.2013

Then move the accent around, ignoring the urge to change the sticking out of boredom. Here’s a good meditation exercise: RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL | RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL | RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL | RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL || Once you get that down, it’ll be stuck in your head for a while. When [...]

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‘Hot for Teacher’ drum sticking idea

01.18.2013

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video For nearly three decades, Alex Van Halen’s drum intro in Hot for Teacher has been a source of debate among even the most accomplished drummers. Is it the bass drums? Is it triggers? What’s going on? During a 20-year reunion hang last night, [...]

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