Some things I've been playing through this week— promoting some previous posts, and rounding up some very useful practice systems. Basic...

R. Crumb and son Jesse, in the movie Crumb:   Jesse: You didn't go to art school and you're rich and famous. R.: I'm not talking...

The title is Nigeria spelled backwards, usually pronounced AIRa-jin. I took a minute in the shower this morning figuring out how to pronounc...

A couple of weeks ago I made some comments about hearing some younger drummers , and someone asked me to elaborate on this part of it:  [I w...

Bright samba groove from one of my favorite Brazilian drummers, Milton Banana, who was most active in the 60s/70s. The tune is Linha da Pass...

Here's how to fit that late paradiddle inversion system into a triplet or 12/8 environment. For clarity, we'll base it off the acce...

These are some steps I was running through with an adult beginner, to get oriented with some normal things you do on the drums, and to pract...

An Afro 6* groove played by Airto, on the intro of Casa Forte, on Flora Purim's 1974 record Stories To Tell. It has some big shot LA mus...

Preparatory page for a Reed system using the highly useful RLLR-LRRL paradiddle inversion— we're doing a lot with it for a reason. It&#...