This month Modern Drummer is providing another excellent example of Joe Morello’s masterful teaching from his essential book Master Studies. Both Technique, and Progressive Accents deal with the vital aspect of developing (and improving) your control while playing the drums. On Technique Master Studies is not intended to be a how to book. By that I mean that it’s not an instruction book that will teach you various hand and stick positions, nor does this book have anything to do with any style of playing, nor is it intended to give the drummer some “hot licks.” Master Studies is a workbook of material to use in developing the hands for accenting, and for controlling the different pressures used in single strokes, double strokes, and closed rolls. You can go through this book using whatever techniques you’ve been taught, and you can apply the ideas in this book to any style […]

December 2022 Issue