August September 1981 – Volume 5 • Number 6
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Articles in August September 1981
The Grateful Dead's Billy Kreutzmann & Mickey Hart
They have reached this point in their development through their own approach, concepts, and individual techniques. Their approach to music is open ended and continues to evolve.
Barry Keane: Canadian Studio Kingpin
Barry Keane is one of the most in-demand studio drummers in Canada. He has recorded numerous commercials, jingles, TV and Film scores; but most people know him from his work with Gordon Lightfoot and Anne Murray.
Concepts - Developing Good Time
Many drummers are capable of playing good time even though they may not know exactly how they developed this ability.
Show And Studio - Charles Collins: Up Close
Things really started happening for Charles Collins when Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson pulled him out of Dionne Warwick's road band in 1971.
Casey Scheuerell: With Feeling
Casey Scheuerell is the high-powered drummer who is best known us the driving force behind Jean-Luc Ponty's eclectic violin, on such albums as Cosmic Messenger, Jean-Luc Ponty Live, and A Taste For Passion.
Strictly Technique - Bass Drum Control
When I wrote Bass Drum Control in 1964, it was at the request of drummers who wanted exercises to practice for hands and bass drum.
Portraits - John Robinson
Within the last year and a half. John Robinson, drummer for Rufus, has joined the ranks of the L.A. session players.
James Bradley, Jr.: Feels So Good
My mother and father were performing at a press party for Muhammed Ali about 1962. My father had been telling his friends that his four-year-old son could play the drums. I guess a lot of people didn't believe him, so my mother and father took a break, and they just let me loose, and I started playing.
Jazz Drummer's Workshop - The Music of the Drums - Part 3
This article will cover two related ideas: How to make the study of drum method books musically more useful, and some technical exercises that can he used to aid this development.
Teacher's Forum - Drumset Applications of The Reed Syncopation
This article is a compilation of exercises by Mr. Breithaupt and two of his advanced students, Karl Ott and Peter Retzlaff.
August September 1981 - Volume 5 • Number 6
Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Barry Keane, James Bradley Jr., Casey Scheuerell, Colin Bailey, John Robinson, Buddy Rich, Hal Blaine, Alan Schwartzberg, Paul Humphrey, Steve Jordan, Ed Shaughnessy
Rock Perspectives - Modular Rock
Rock Perspectives Modular Rock by David Garibaldi *Accents and notes in parentheses are optional. "Depending on what precedes this, the sticking may be:The practicality of this study will depend on you. What is presented here are hand/foot combinations in modular…
