In last month’s Modern Drummer, we reintroduced Bob Moses’ fabulous notion that he calls “The 8/8 Concept” from his book Drum Wisdom. Bob’s concept of feeling music in 8/8 leads naturally into another concept that Bob calls “The Eight Points.” The following is an excerpt from Drum Wisdom called “The Eight Points.” In upcoming months, we will reprint the next few chapters of Bob Moses’ outstanding book Drum Wisdom that further explain and teach this subject. The Eight Points Once you accept the 8/8 flow as a useful concept, the next logical conclusion is that there are eight points in the bar that you can resolve to: the four up beats and the four down beats. For some reason, the way music has been taught in this country, people learn to think that the one is the most important beat in the bar. In fact, it’s not the most important, […]

May 2022 Issue