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Joe Morello: Master Studies

In our further celebration of Joe Morello’s legendary book Master Studies; in the next few months Modern Drummer will be bringing you one of the best and most beneficial sections of the book and Joe’s teaching, the Control Studies. While…

Modern Drummer
Sep 30, 2022

Triplets to Sixteenth notes

This is an exercise that I call Triplets to Sixteenth notes. This entire exercise can be played over the foot patterns written in bar A, B, and C. For starters, I will play a bar of triplets and then I’ll…

By Brendan Buckley
Sep 30, 2022

Open Handed Drumming is to play ‘Open Hearted’

The ‘Open Handed’ Mindset You might have seen me play and noticed I do things a little differently. By now you know ‘different is good’, because there are no rules! The way I play is called OPEN HANDED DRUMMING, which…

By Chris Lesso
Sep 30, 2022

Double Bass Drumming Part 5 Eight Note Triple Fills

This month we will continue with more fills from Joe Franco’s groundbreaking book, Double Bass Drumming. This month Modern Drummer is including Joe’s explanation of eighth note triplet double bass fills using his Single Stroke System, and we are including…

by Joe Franco
Sep 30, 2022

The Polyrhythm Conversion Timetable

The following comparative timetable illustrates how polymeters and polyrhythms work with one another when played at the same tempo and time signature.The first fundamental polymeter starts with with 3 over-4 notes (3:4), followed by 5:4, 6:4, 7:4, and 8:4. Within…

By Peter Magadini
Sep 30, 2022
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Carmine Appice: Realistic Sixteenth Note Triplets

Continuing Modern Drummer’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Carmine Appice’s Ultimate Realistic Rock book, this month we present a sound often associated with Carmine’s playing in Vanilla Fudge, many of John Bonham’s Led Zeppelin grooves, and later with Dennis…

Modern Drummer
Sep 30, 2022

MIDI 2.0 - The biggest advance in Music Technology in 40 years

In this month’s column, we will focus on MIDI, discuss the role of the MIDI Association with the continuing evolution of MIDI technology and take a close look at the expanded features coming soon with MIDI 2.0. The upshot is…

By Tony Verderosa
Sep 30, 2022

The Business Side of Drumming

For this month’s article, I’m going to share some of my personal insights for dealing with the business side of drumming. If you’re lucky enough to be making a living playing drums, then you are already aware of the importance…

By Billy Ashbaugh
Aug 31, 2022

Accent Options

Drum Channel and I would like to share something with you that I created called accent options. This is a warmup or rudimental exercise that I like to use. You can take any rudiment that has an accent and apply…

By: Jonathan Barber
Aug 31, 2022

Double Bass Drumming Single Stroke System

This month we will continue with a section from Joe Franco’s groundbreaking book, Double Bass Drumming. This month Modern Drummer are including Joe’s explanation of double bass fills using his Single Stroke System, and include several of Joe’s fantastic sounding…

by Joe Franco
Aug 31, 2022

Joe Morello: Master Studies

George Lawrence Stone was a legendary drum teacher and musician, one of his prize pupils was Joe Morello. Joe carried on Stone’s valuable teachings and added his valuable insights in his books Master Studies and Master Studies II. This month,…

Modern Drummer
Aug 31, 2022

Sound Design Part 2: The Microcosm Effects Pedal

In Part 2 of this Sound Design Series, we will explore the use of hardware effects pedals as a means of processing drum and percussion sounds. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on computer-based effects plugins used in…

By Tony Verderosa
Aug 31, 2022
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Realistic 9/8 Time

Continuing Modern Drummer’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Carmine Appice’s Ultimate Realistic Rock book, this month we present one of the bonus sections that was included in Ultimate Realistic Rock, and not included in the original text of Realistic…

Modern Drummer
Aug 31, 2022

The Game Changers Part 2

Welcome back for part two! Last month we discussed several important topics that I felt were monumental in my growth as a player. Those were: understanding subdivision, learning to read music, developing your ears, and learning to write charts/roadmaps. Once…

By Billy Ashbaugh
Jul 31, 2022
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