(available on newsstands September 6, 2012)

Dave King of The Bad Plus

Featuring
Dennis Wilson 
Setting Sights: Nate Smith

Update

• Adler’s Steven Adler
• The Figgs’ Pete Hayes

Influences
Bernard Purdie

What Do You Know About…?
Sweet’s Mick Tucker

Spotlight
Drum Channel

Education

• Concepts—Maximize Your Practicing, Get the Most From Whatever Time You Have
• Strictly Technique—Four and Sevens in 7/8, Part 1: Single Strokes
• Jazz Drummer’s Workshop—Improve Your Bottom Line, Part 2: Bass Drum Comping in 4/4
• The Jobbing Drummer—Popular Play-Alongs, Part 2: Pop-Punk
• Rock ‘N’ Jazz Clinic—Exploring the New Frontier, Moving Beyond Pattern-Based Thinking
• Health and Science—Drum Athletes, Part 3: Lower-Body Strength Builders and Coordination Exercises

Ask A Pro
Gavin Harrison, Steve Gadd, Juels Thomas

It’s Questionable
Technology Corner
Lyon & Healy Snare

Product Close Up

• Meinl Byzance Vintage Crashes and Jazz Ride Additions
• LP Twist Shakers and Jam Tamb
• Creation Barry Altschul Signature Drumset
• Brady 8×14 Wandoo Block Snare
• Gibraltar Turning Point Series Cymbal Stands

Gearing Up
 Mana’s Alex Gonzalez

Collector’s Corner
L and S Dictator Snare Drum

In Memoriam
Buddy Saltzman