Flipbook
May 2018 Issue – Volume 42 • Number 5
An Editor's Overview
Finding a Balance
Features
St. Vincent’s Matt Johnson
Next to None’s Max Portnoy
John McLaughlin’s Ranjit Barot
Paramore’s Zac Farro
Education
Travis Orbin on Silly String II
Five-Note Phrasing
Up-Tempo Studies
How to Play Odd Time Signatures
Concepts
Do You Need to Read Music?
Equipment
Yamaha – Tour Custom Drumset
Zildjian – K Sweet Series Cymbals
101 Drums – 5.5×14 Woodfiber Snare
Tune-Bot – Studio Digital Tuner
Bopworks – Drumsticks and Brushes
New Drum Gear from Tama, Remo, Rogers, Etymotic Research, Vic Firth and Ahead!
Departments
What’s Your Favorite 1980s Metal or Hard Rock Drumming Album?
Santiago “Jimmy” Vela III on the Sword’s Used Future
Rod Morgenstein with the Dixie Dregs
Smashing Pumpkins’ Jimmy Chamberlin
Guitar Center Destination Drum Shops
Critique
Terri Lyne Carrington with Lewis Porter, Blake Richardson with Between the Buried and Me, Virgil Donati with IceFish, and More!
Belle and Sebastian’s Richard Colburn
Backbeats
The 42nd Annual Percussive Arts Society International Convention and Cascio Music Drummerfest 2017
Ray Lucas and Frank Capp Remembered
The Elf’s Giant
Great ’80s Drum Performances
Eric Clapton’s Jamie Oldaker
