Flipbook
April 2018 Issue – Volume 42 • Number 4
An Editor's Overview
Words Count
Features
Katy Perry’s Tony Royster Jr.
Tim Alexander of Primus
Crucial Jazz Drumming Recordings, Part 2
Lia Braswell of A Place to Bury Strangers
Basics
Reading Syncopated Rhythms
Education
Playing on the Upbeat
Uptempo Studies – Part 1: Whole Notes and Half Notes
Grizzly Bear’s Chris Bear
Organic Odd-Time Patterns
Developing the Single-Stroke Roll
Concepts
Mind Matters – The Power of “No”
Equipment
Sabian – FRX Series Cymbals
Canopus – 6×10 and 10×14 Harvey Mason Signature Snares
Roland – SPD::ONE Electro, Percussion, and WAV Pads
Doc Sweeney – Blue Tiger Drumset
P.O.D.’s Noah “Wuv” Bernardo
New Gear from CRX, Ahead, Cympad, Tama, Yamaha, Evans and REpercussion!
Readers' Platform
How Do You Develop a Unique Voice on the Drums?
Departments
Ian Chang on Son Lux’s Brighter Wounds
Bobby Sanabria, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste, Roger Taylor, Florian Alexandru-Zorn, Clem Burke, and more!
Karl Brazil With James Blunt
Brad Wilk of Prophets of Rage
The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72
Backbeats
Yamaha Drums Fiftieth-Anniversary Celebration
Adam Nussbaum’s Leadbelly Project, Matt Cameron solo album featuring Mark Guiliana, and more!
The Drum Orb
