November 2014 Issue – Volume 39 • Number 11
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Articles in November 2014
Be Prepared! Long-Term and Short-Term Skills for Success
I thought I would use this month’s column to elaborate on the details of developing your product. Last month we discussed balancing artistry and commerce. We broke that down into the four parts of these vital components. First, make a…
Syncopation Revisited Part 6: Assorted Applications
Welcome to the final installment of our series on ways to interpret the classic Ted Reed book Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer. The following applications can be used with any of the seventy-two repetitive one-measure examples from…
Color Your Groove Tips for Playing Drums and Handheld Percussion Simultaneously
Adding handheld percussion, like shakers and tambourines, to tracks in the studio is nothing new. Producers have long taken advantage of the opportunity to overdub layers of rhythmic texture without necessarily worrying about how it’s all going to be replicated…
Duple/Triple Single-Diddle Gear Shifters Part 2
16th Notes and Sextuplets This month we’re going to isolate timing and sticking gear shifts between 16th notes and sextuplets (aka 16th-note triplets). These exercises are great for improving your hand technique as well as your timing. Using singles and…
Chuck “Palito” Silverman
The drum community suffered an immense loss this past May 1, when teacher, mentor, and percussion ambassador Chuck “Palito” Silverman passed away at age sixty-two. Internationally renowned as a specialist in applying Afro-Caribbean rhythms to the drumset, Silverman brought over…
Elliot Jacobson
The Brooklyn-based drummer has made himself indispensible to hitmakers like Ingrid Michaelson by getting deep into the mechanics of every songs he touches. In 2010, Elliot Jacobson was voted the top Up & Coming drummer in MD’s Readers Poll,…
Jonathan Joseph
Guitar god Jeff Beck didn’t get where he is by keeping his drummers in the shadows. Quite the opposite—few leaders enjoy having a fire lit under them as much as Beck does. Can you say Narada Michael Walden? Simon Phillips?…
Alice Cooper's Glen Sobel
Watching the versatile and dynamic Glen Sobel perform with shock-rock legend Alice Cooper is like attending a clinic on how to do everything right as a great live rock drummer. The muscular Sobel’s animated motions make the groove seem larger…
