February 2012 Issue of Modern Drummer featuring Jeff Hamilton!

Jeff Hamilton

Featuring
Setting Sights Taku Hirano 
Karl Brazil
Get Good: Drum Clinics

Influences:
Charlie Benante

Update
Journeyman Stephen Chopek
Zappa Vaultmeister’s Joe Travers
The Joy Formidable’s Matt Thomas

Woodshed
Daniel Lanois/Brian Blade’s Steven Nistor: Striped Light Studio

Taking Care of Business:
Cecil Brooks III

Education
Basics: Understanding Odd Time Signatures —Part 2: Time Playing in Five and Seven
Strictly Technique: Chops Builders — Part 17: Two-Hand Coordination, Triplet-Based Ride
Rock ‘N’ Jazz Clinic: Brush Workshop — Part 3: Linear Motion
In the Pocket — Advanced Shuffle
Concepts— The Sounds That Drew Me In

Product Close Up
Bosphorus Hammered Series Additions
Mapleworks Artist Standard Drumset
Aquarian Force Ten and Triple Threat Drumheads
TRX Icon Series Cymbals

Electronic Review
Electro-Voice RE320 Dynamic Microphone

In Memoriam
Freddie Gruber

Gearing Up
Good Charlotte’s  Dean Butterworth