June 2013 Issue – Volume 38 • Number 6
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Articles in June 2013
Jazz Drummer's Workshop: Focus On Brushes
From Basic Patterns to Advanced Techniques by Steve Fidyk Practicing brushes is excellent for building strength in your wrists and fingers. It can help develop muscles and reflexes and also improves your control with sticks. With the exception of the…
In The Studio: Seeing Sounds
In The Studio Seeing Sounds Part 1: All-Purpose Pop/Rock by Donny Gruendler All of us appreciate a signature and stylistically appropriate drum sound. This can range from the perfect overall kit tone on your favorite CD to a uniquely recorded…
In The Pocket: Funk Drumming Training Camp
In The Pocket Funk Drumming Training Camp Part 2: More Paradiddles and Musical Bass Drum Patterns by Mike Adamo In part one of this series (May 2013 MD), we talked about the importance of developing a tight, solid, feel-good groove.…
Strictly Technique: Triplet Gear-Shifter
Strictly Technique Triplet Gear-Shifter 12-18-24 Exercise, Part 2 by Bill Bachman This month we’re going to apply two alternate stickings to the triplet gear-shifter exercise. To review, 12th notes are 8th-note triplets (twelve notes to a bar of 4/4). In…
Clutch’s Jean-Paul Gaster
Clutch’s Jean-Paul Gaster The Making of Earth Rocker Story by Billy Brennan Photos by Paul La Raia Producer/engineer Machine describes Clutch as the blue-collar rock band. It’s an appropriate title. The group’s work ethic and curiosity make Clutch absolutely revered…
Portraits: Pierre van der Linden
Portraits Pierre van der Linden by Ken Micallef He’s a free-jazz drummer playing in a Dutch progressive rock band. He finds inspiration in the work of French philosophers and twentieth-century classical composers. And he’s probably the only drummer you’ve heard…
Influences: Al Jackson Jr.
Influences Al Jackson Jr. Soul Man by Jeff Potter It’s almost unbearable. Otis Redding’s immortal recording of “Try a Little Tenderness” sustains a nearly paralyzing groove tension, helping make it perhaps the quintessential record by the soul legend and a…
Joey Waronker
Joey Waronker Story by Mike Dawson Photos by Alex Solca By creating subtly insinuating grooves that blur the lines between electronic and acoustic percussion, he's become the secret ingredient in some of the gutsiest, most detailed music of modern times.…
Up & Coming: Justin Brown
Up & Coming Justin Brown By Ken Micallef He's made quite a name for himself on the NYC jazz scene—largely by absorbing the intricacies of styles well outside the idiom. Twenty-eight-year-old, Oakland-born Justin Brown plays jazz with a universality and…
