November 2013 Issue – Volume 38 • Number 11
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Articles in November 2013
Jazz Drummer's Workshop - Approaching Standards
Jazz Drummer's Workshop APPROACHING STANDARDS A Framework for Musical Practice, Part 2: Melody and Form by Steve Fidyk Welcome to the second installment in our series on approaching jazz standards. This article reveals ways of using the melodic rhythm as…
Off The Record - Ilan Rubin
Off The Record Ilan Rubin Choice Cuts From Paramore and Exhibit A By Ken Micallef This year, drummer Ilan Rubin further secured his position as one of modern rock’s hottest prospects after putting out a third release with his solo…
Strictly Technique - Chops Builders
Strictly Technique Chops Builders Hemiolas, Part 2 by Bill Bachman In part two of our hemiola series, we’re going to add another accent to the half-note-triplet patterns we covered last month. To review, a hemiola is defined as a two-against-three…
Rock Perspectives - Double Bass Workout, Part 4
Rock Perspectives Double Bass Workout Part 4: Advanced Grooves by Todd Vinciguerra This month we’re exploring advanced double bass groove ideas that mix 16th notes, 16th note triplets, and 32nd notes alongside 16th-note-based hand patterns. Remember to always play to…
In The Studio - Seeing Sounds Part 5: Specialty Mics
In The Studio Seeing Sounds Part 5: Specialty Mics by Donny Gruendler In the first four installments of this series we discussed very broad ideas for achieving stylistically appropriate drum sounds, from pop-rock to traditional jazz. Each setup employed different…
The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd and Kliph Scurlock
Thinking Differently About Time Story by Adam Budofsky Photos by Rahav Oklahoma’s favorite psychedelic sons take yet another road less traveled. We talk to the group’s main sonic architect and his drummer-in-arms about what went into their ambitious new album,…
Portraits - David Langlois
Portraits David Langlois Story and photos by Michael Parillo Inventing an instrument often means inventing situations in which to explore it. This globe hopper has made a lot of things happen with a modest yet versatile and fun-sounding concoction that…
What Do You Know About…Frank De Vito
What Do You Know About… Frank De Vito by Jeff Potter His story—which includes work with some of the most iconic artists of all time—is a timeless lesson in providing exactly what’s needed, and being open to whatever fate sends…
Korn's Ray Luzier
Photos by Alex Solca How does a clean-cut farm boy from western Pennsylvania with few connections and even fewer resources end up becoming a vital component of a dreadlocked, inked-up, multiplatinum nu-metal band? If you ask Ray Luzier, he’ll tell…
Woodshed - Dylan Wissing
Woodshed Dylan Wissing Triple Colossal Studios • Hoboken, New Jersey Interview by Joe Gorelick Photos by Kristie Andrijenko As a burgeoning studio drummer in his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, Dylan Wissing studied with two giants of the session world: Kenny…
