October 1977 – Volume 1 • Number 4
On 01st Oct 1977
Articles in October 1977
Drivers Seat: Tips From Butch Miles
Drivers Seat Tips From Butch Miles A big band is many things. It can be top-heavy and cumbersome, or to quote a certain well-known world champion, it can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. One minute it…
Garry Marshall: Hollywood Producer Reminisces
Garry Marshall: Hollywood Producer Reminisces by Gabe Villani The famed producer of TV's Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley is just one of show businesses successful personalities who've been known to dabble in the fine art of drumming. MD'sown Gabe…
Terri Lyne Carrington: She's Only Just Begun
Terri Lyne Carrington: She's Only Just Begun by Jack London Why a feature story on a twelve year old little girl in a drummers magazine? Very simple. Terri Lyne Carrington of Medford, Massachusetts first off is not your average twelve-year-old…
North - Directional Drums Strive For Unconventional Sound
North Directional Drums Strive For Unconventional Sound by Stu Astor ONE THING that Roger North's drums have in common with most other percussion instruments is that the drummer hits them with a drumstick. But from that point on, North, a…
Rock Perspectives - Playing Rock Tambourine
Rock Perspectives Playing Rock Tambourine by David Levine Although there are many different types of tambourines they can be basically broken down into two groups, 1) those with heads, 2) those without. The most widely used tambourine in the pop…
Jazz Drummer's Workshop: A New Look At The Traditional Rolls
Jazz Drummer's Workshop A New Look At The Traditional Rolls by Micky Earnshaw The standard rudimental open rolls, based upon the double-stroke roll, are standard knowledge to most drummers. If we begin the traditional double-stroke roll on its second note,…
October 1977 - Volume 1 • Number 4
Lenny White, Badal Roy, Butch Miles, Max Roach, Terri Lyne Carrington, Garry Marshall
Drum Soloist: Max Roach Transcription And Analysis
Drum Soloist Max Roach Transcription And Analysis by Lowell Schiff The following is excerpted from a soon to be released instruction manual on jazz drumming by Lowell Schiff, entitled Toward a Theory of Jazz Drumming.Album: Deeds Not Words. Title of…
Beyond Forever: Lenny White
Beyond Forever: MD Talks With Lenny White by Aran Wald Lenny White was born in Queens, N. Y. and travelled to Forever. Excuse the forced pun, but it was with Chick Corea's Return to Forever, that Lenny made the reputation…
Rudimental Symposium: The Swiss Rudiments - A Brief Insight
Since the onset of our Rudimental Symposium series, we've had several requests to supply some information on the interesting Swiss Rudiments. Though the American and Swiss rudiments have great similarities, the Swiss system - as you will see - presents…
