CYMBALISTIC: I payed a brief visit to Cymbal & Gong HQ (aka Tim's house) the other day, and he had a few interesting things around: ...

This came out of the groove part of my recent Country Rock thing . It's a kind of subtractive method for voicing the snare drum and bass...

I found some interesting things on one of those shady pdf download sites— a couple of rare books, and very old versions of a couple of unusu...

Here's a page o' coordination based on Elvin Jones's playing on Lazy Afternoon, from Grant Green's album Street of Dreams. I...

Mitchell Peters is becoming  the guy for snare drum literature, for me— his books form a thorough and complete vocabulary for the snare drum...

UPDATE:  I have extreme quality readers. Jim in the comments pointed out a bunch of errors in this, and figured out the insane Mystery Lick ...

CYMBALISTIC: I've just posted a bunch of new cymbals on the site— six Holy Grail Jazz Rides, 20-22", a HG 16" crash, a 20&quo...

Here's a video my brother mentioned to me— Charlie Watts hanging out with Stan Levey and Jim Keltner back in 2003. Levey was one of Watt...

This swingy country, folky, gospel type of half time feel groove is all over the music of the late 60s/early 70s. You Can't Always Get W...