December 1981 January 1982 – Volume 5 • Number 9
Articles in December 1981 January 1982
Concepts: Overcoming the “Horribles???
Concepts Overcoming the “Horribles” by Roy Burns Imagine yourself playing in a club and having a really good time. It's one of those nights when the group is clicking and the audience is really with you. Suddenly, you notice a…
Saul Goodman The Master Tympanist
Saul Goodman The Master Tympanist Photo by Rick Mattingly With every instrument, there are certain players who, through their musicianship, manage to raise everyone's consciousness about how that instrument can he played. Often, these players also become involved with instrument…
Andrew Cyrille: An Aesthetic Endeavor
Andrew Cyrille: An Aesthetic Endeavor HH: What motivated you to study music? AC: We always had some kind of instrument in the house. My sister got piano and violin lessons, and I remember banging on the piano. My mother…
Strictly Technique: Extending Stick Control
Strictly Technique Extending Stick Control by Ray Fransen Stick Control by George L. Stone is perhaps the most widely accepted text on "pure" technique for snare drum. However, many drum set players of very high caliber have also mentioned this…
Portraits: The Oak Ridge Boys’ Fred Satterfield
The Oak Ridge Boys’ Fred Satterfield From Breaking Ground to Finding Students FS: I was born in California. I'm from the Los Angeles area. I've been traveling and playing for money since I was about 14. I'm 25 today. I started…
South of the Border: Mambo on the Drum Set
South of the Border Mambo on the Drum Set by John Rae The Mambo, along with its close relative the Son Montuno, makes up a significant share of the music played at Latin dances. It is too bad that the…
Rock Perspectives: It’s an Open and Shut Case
Rock Perspectives It’s an Open and Shut Case By David Garibaldi When playing consecutive sixteenth notes on the H.H., with eighth note and/or sixteenth note "swishes" in the pattern, the tendency upon closing the H.H. (at the end of the…
Up and Coming: Butch Baron
Up and Coming Butch Baron Butch Baron was raised on Long Island, New York, but has spent the last few years on the West Coast. He has taken the seeming "adversity" of being a drummer with only one leg…
December 1981 January 1982 - Volume 5 • Number 9
Ringo Starr, Saul Goodman, Mitch Mitchell, Andrew Cyrille, Steve Gadd, Joe Stefko, Joe LaBarbera, David Samuels