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The Stone Killer Part 3
Last month we included the second part of Joe Morello’s “Stone Killer” that was inspired by George Lawrence Stone’s “Stone Killer” exercise. These exercises originally appeared in Joe Morello’s book Master Studies. Originally George only wrote out the first four…
Half-Time Shuffle-Funk Exercises in African-American Funk
This month, we move the backbeat of the shuffle groove over to beat three. What this does is transform the shuffle into a half-time, triplet-based funk groove, which we’ll call “shuffle funk.” The Purdie shuffle made famous by the legendary…
The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming Four Consecutive 16th Notes
Bobby Rondinelli and Michael Lauren wrote The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming. It takes a slightly different approach from our ongoing studies from the Joe Franco book on double bass drumming. This month’s excerpt develops your ability to create warm-ups,…
The 4 Practice Pockets: #3. Push the EDGES: The Blue Ocean (Great Unknown) of Practice.
Venture into the blue ocean (great unknown,) by doing something you don’t know how to do… YET! I’ve never met a drummer that didn’t want to learn in the “Matrix style.” In the hero’s journey movie The Matrix, Neo plugs…
June 2013 Issue – Volume 38 • Number 6
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Double Bass Drumming Broken Bass Drum Patterns
To conclude Modern Drummer’s excerpts from Joe Franco’s groundbreaking book Double Bass Drumming, this month we will include Joe’s concepts of playing fills and solo ideas with broken bass drum patterns. These are very cool sounds, and can be used…
January 2012 Issue – Volume 37 • Number 1
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Play What You Love: A Look Inside the Craftsmanship of the A&F Drum Co.
Simple design, practical application, and brilliant sound, are the three pillars that stand as the foundation for the somewhat newly created (but by no means unfamiliar) A&F Drum Company. There are so many adjectives that come to mind when I…
February 2012 Issue – Volume 37 • Number 2
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Renaissance Woman: Tammy Glover
I enjoy talking to people like Tammy Glover. She is a successful drummer, songwriter, and a muti-instrumentalist. Tammy was the drummer in the celebrated band Sparks for 14 years, she just wrote a musical called Wendy, My Darling, and has…
March 2012 Issue – Volume 37 • Number 3
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May 2012 Issue – Volume 37 • Number 5
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June 2012 Issue – Volume 37 • Number 6
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For Phil Ehart In Kansas, It’s Always About the Melody
After 50 years of success and creating some of the most popular songs in rock history, Kansas and drummer Phil Ehart are sounding incredible! As further proof of their continued popularity, Inside Out Records (one of the leading progressive rock…
