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November 17, 2012 Playing Music One Comment

Can You Get Sheet Music for Drums?

Want to know every single note that drumming great Kenny Aronoff played on the John Cougar Mellencamp hit Hurts So Good? Did you ever wonder at what tempo Green Day drummer Tre’ Cool played American Idiot? Do you know what Charlie Watts played at the beginning of the Rolling Stones hit Brown Sugar? The answers to these questions […]

November 10, 2012 Technique No Comments

Relax…It’s Just a Drum Set!

Do your hand and foot muscles start to hurt while you play the drums? Do you get blisters on your fingers from holding your drumsticks too tight? After you play the drums does your back ache? Do you have a chipped front tooth and don’t know how it happened? Do you have trouble playing fast […]

November 3, 2012 Playing Music No Comments

Mel Brown – Drum Teacher Knows Best

An open letter to Mel Brown, great drummer, teacher and mentor from Portland, Oregon: Dear Mel, It was great to hear you at Jimmy Mak’s last week after so many (too many!) years. My wife and I decided to spend a long weekend at a downtown Portland hotel so it was a short walk to […]

October 27, 2012 Playing Music No Comments

Practice Without Drums – Think Before You Play

Visualize Playing the Drums Did you know that you don’t have to be sitting behind a set of drums to practice playing the drum set? There is a technique called visualization that will allow you to create a mental picture as if you were playing the drums. We’re following a plan to play drums in 4 weeks and […]

October 20, 2012 Technique 3 Comments

How To Play the Bo Diddley Drum Beat

Once you hear it you’ve got to start movin’. You may not know how to dance; you may not even want to dance. But once you hear a Bo Diddley beat, your body starts to move in mysterious ways. The Bo Diddley drum beat is the last of the 6 beats that I think can […]