A moderate samba groove using the tom toms, from one of my favorite Brazilian drummers, Milton Banana. He plays this briefly at the beginnin...

Object To Be Destroyed by Man Ray A rhythm issue I've been thinking about is the equivalence of tempos and their halves and doubles...

Let's start a little series here: some full page syncopation exercises, each designed for a special purpose. Good for fluency and ease o...

Two good live bootlegs that have been shared among my Facebook friends recently— you'll want to friend both of these guys, because they ...

“When I let go of what I am,  I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “I used to call myself a free jazz drummer, now I jus...

The pedant is a disturbingly-slender, reedy-voiced, scrutinous man. There's a lot of confusion about rhythm, making the subject an e...

After Ginger Baker finally died the other day, I was thinking about his playing, and the playing of some of the other big drummers to come ...

The drummer, clinician, and technique expert Bill Bachman has just shared on the Drummerworld forum that he had a stroke recently, which to...

UPDATE: Oops, I'm an idiot— I uploaded the unedited video from the meeting, which has lots of inane conversation on it in between playin...