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Music City Drummers: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009. And now, for more on triplets. In looking through the blog the other day I noticed a major hole in the content: We're running a blog about drumming and we haven't touched on any practical or technical playing advice! Well the blog is about the journey of learning the drums, and last night I came up with an exercise that I realized I needed to improve my own playing, so I decided to share it with the world. Then Aaron Spears (I'm sure he wasn't the first. Here's a video.
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Music City Drummers: March 2011
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Attack of the Metronome. Drummers know that practicing with a metronome is the key to learning to keep good time. We all hear the pro's talk about how important it is to practice with a metronome, but I find that it is much more infrequent that I hear anyone give much insight on HOW to do it effectively. A few years back I was studying shuffles with groove master Zoro. I used some of his ideas and developed my own exercise, Attack of the Metronome. And read it, work through it, sh...
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Music City Drummers: June 2009
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Thursday, June 18, 2009. Max Roach - Right under my nose. The story reported that the family claimed that only about half of the collection was still in the barn when they found it. That conjured up frightening images of some rural teenager bashing out rock grooves on priceless old K Zildjians that he bought for $50 from some guy in a barn. To read the newspaper article, follow this link: http:/ www.herald-citizen.com/index.cfm? Monday, June 8, 2009. Steve Gorman: Jealous Again. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Music City Drummers: February 2009
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Friday, February 13, 2009. These stories gave me a strange sense of pride in, and respect for my instrument. It helped me realize the importance of the drum and the vast and long standing history behind it. I loved Centurio's explanation of his relationship to music: "The drum is there, you are there, so play the drum! How can you feel stress when you play the drum? You can hear Centurio and many others playing from the Global Music Archive web page here: http:/ www.globalmusicarchive.org.
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Music City Drummers: Music City Drummer
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010. I just wanted to post a quick note about the blog since it's been so long since we've posted. The initial idea behind this thing was to be able to post those moments of enlightenment and inspiration with regard to the drums. We were excited and motivated and looking for reasons to post at first, and recently we've slowed down a bit. We're still here though! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Drummer Blog Jeff Consi Melbourne, Australia. Adam Silverman : Drum Blog.
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Music City Drummers: April 2009
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Give Your Left Foot a Chance! It's been a couple months now since I decided I wanted to change the tension on my hi-hat pedal. It's been the exact same amout of time since I realized my hi-hat stand was probably the worst piece of gear I owned. My tension adjustment seemed to have 3 settings: Sluggish, too weak to do much of anything, and completely locked up. I wandered into Fork's. Do a clinic in Nashville last week which was a fantastic display of the kind of precision I'm ta...
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Music City Drummers: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010. If you're anything like me, you probably know a thousand fills and you probably use about 2 of them live. Maybe the rest don't cross your stream of consciousness while you're playing, or maybe they're too fast or too busy. More than likely though, you don't know quite how to use them and it's a matter of confidence that you can pull them off outside of the song you learned them in. I just wanted to post a quick note about the blog since it's been so long since we've posted....
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Music City Drummers: A little wisdom from Benny Greb
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010. A little wisdom from Benny Greb. I was lucky enough to get to see Benny Greb. In clinic in Nashville this past Monday evening. The recent floods in our city threatened the clinics feasibility and once they worked that out, it was by a chance cancellation of a practice that I was able to make it out. Thanks to Fork's Drum Closet. For hosting the clinic and relocating it, and good luck to Sound Check Nashville. The typical clinic location) as they clean up from the flood waters.
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Music City Drummers: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Drumming in the Pocket. As drummers we hear a lot about the elusive 'pocket' and make a lot of claims about it as well. I was watching Stanton Moore's 'Groove Alchemy' and was inspired by his section on the DVD and in the book about the backbeat. It helped me realize that I spend most of my time learning complicated new grooves, but probably put too little work into the foundation that the grooves are built upon - the backbeat. This is key, and to me this is the type of nuance...
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Music City Drummers: Vinnie Colaiuta - Freak...
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Friday, September 4, 2009. Vinnie Colaiuta - Freak. How many drummers had that "what the heck was that? Effect on you when you first heard them? Album The cat can play it all, and in way that seems so effortless. Vinnie was the first "fusion" drummer I heard that could make the outside things he played sound inside. I would listen to some of the things he played and truly had no earthly idea what he was doing. Wild Things Run Fast. The tune was called. May 6, 2010 at 9:13 AM. Big fan from Portugal. DRUMM...
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