Flipbook
December 2017 Issue – Volume 41 • Number 12
An Editor's Overview
Learn to Love Easy
Features
Queens of the Stone Age’s Jon Theodore
Education
Jon Theodore Style and Analysis
Modern Drummer 2018 Readers Poll
The Psychedelic Furs’ Paul Garisto
Roy McCurdy
Justin Brown
Eli Keszler
Dennis Bryon
John Blackwell Jr.
12 Heartland Prog Albums
Basics
Dressing Up Your Fills
Flowing Diddles, Triple Strokes, and Paradiddles
Fill Displacements
Rhythmic Conversions – Part 5: Brazilian Grooves and the Half-Note Triplet
The Circuit – An Ambidextrous Routine for Ultimate Control
Concepts
Drum Design Knowledge, Part 2: Shell Types and Thicknesses
Equipment
Yamaha – Rydeen RDP2F5 Drumset
Paiste – 900 Series Cymbals
Black Swamp – Dynamicx Sterling, Live!, and BackBeat Snares
Los Cabos – White Hickory, Red Hickory, and Maple Drumsticks
Collector's Corner
John Aldridge
Janet Jackson’s John Roberts
New Gear from Tama, Ahead, Remo and Wuhan!
Departments
What’s Your Favorite Prog Drumming Record?
Matt Greiner on August Burns Red’s Phantom Anthem
Roy Mayorga With Stone Sour
Mark Guiliana
Critique
Neo-Prog, American Style
Peter Magadini’s Polyrhythmic Life
Backbeats
2017 DCI World Championship Results
Sonor Swinger
Dave Weckl, Omar Hakim, D’Addario and More!
