Flipbook
March 2018 Issue – Volume 42 • Number 3
An Editor's Overview
Appreciation and Gratitude
Features
Edit Bunker’s Zach Danziger
Former Hole and Current Upset Drummer Patty Schemel
Drum Wisdom: Legendary Educator Michael Carvin
Modern Drummer 2018 Readers Poll Winners
Departments
Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart: 1961-2017
Basics
The Fundamentals of 5/4 Rock
Education
Three Birds With One Stone – Optimize Your Practice Time
Web Exclusive! Alex Rüdinger of Good Tiger on the Group’s Sophomore Album, We Will All Be Gone
John Clardy On Tera Melos’s Trash Generator
Bebop Syncopation, Part 3: Elvin Jones
Seven-Over-Three Polyrhythms
Jimmie Vaughan’s George Rains
Concepts
The Failure Percentage
Equipment
Sugar Percussion – 2-12 Series Mahogany Snares
Ddrum – Dios Maple Series Drumset
Ahead – Maxx 5A and Frank Zummo Drumsticks, Stick-On Practice Pad, and Compact Stick Holder
Alesis – Strike Pro Drumset
Dream – Re-Fx Naughty Saucer
Phantogram’s Chris Carhart
New Drum Gear from Simmons, Zildjian, Roland, Sound Percussion Labs, Tama and Sabian!
Drum Fills: Keep It Simple, or Shred?
John Convertino on Calexico’s The Thread That Keeps Us
Marty Beller With They Might Be Giants
Remembering Ben Riley, Frank Capp, Grady Tate, and Chuck Blackwell.
Ulysses Owens Jr.
Professional Drum Shop
Backbeats
The 2017 Hollywood Custom and Vintage Drum Show
A Slingerland Unmasked
Big & Rich’s Keio Stroud
Critique
The Chick Corea & Steve Gadd Band, Arturo O’Farrill and Chucho Valdés, Good Tiger, Quartet NL, and more!
