Flipbook
June 2017 Issue – Volume 41 • Number 6
An Editor's Overview
MD Archive Online
Features
Anika Nilles
Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer
Poison’s Rikki Rockett
Reasons To Love
Reasons to Love: Roger Hawkins
A Different View
Russ Titelman
Equipment
Zildjian – K Custom Special Dry Series
Vic Firth – Modern Jazz Collection
Brass Ball Drums – Stave-Shell Snares
Nord Drum – 3P Multipad
Bucks County – Semi-Solid Mahogany/Poplar Drumset
Medeski, Martin and Wood’s Billy Martin
Basics
Hi-Hat Splashes – Spicing Up Your Backbeats
Education
Groove Construction – Part 13: Left-Handed Split Grooves
1,000 Ways to Practice a Single Page – Part 4: Orchestrated Flams on the Drumset
Playing Melodically – Part 1: “Billie’s Bounce”
Septuplet Permutations – Diving Deep Into an Odd Subdivision
Concepts
Hone Your Human GPS – Setting Goals, Defining Problems, and Devising Solutions
Departments
Hybrid Setups: Pros? Cons?
Critique
Marcus Baylor takes the reins, Bowie memoir, and more
Encore
Chicago II
Stanton Moore Drum Academy
Alphonse Mouzon
Backbeats
The 2016 Guitar Center Drum-Off Grand Finals
Split Hybrid
Rival Sons’ Michael Miley
Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick goes solo, Josh Eppard tours with Coheed and Cambria, and more