Rounding up my current views and practices on the subject rhythm and time, in teaching and practicing: knowing rhythm, holding a tempo in pl...

Here's Flamenco beat played by Billy Cobham on a cover of the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, from George Benson's album of th...

An easy thing to do with Syncopation, adding short rolls. This will be a no-brainer any time you want to work on your rolls without a lot of...

I've been using my pages of syncopation rhythms a lot in teaching lately— similar to what's in Ted Reed, but written for a specific ...

The following may not be of a lot interest to everyone, but that's what www.blogspot.com is all about. So stand by, we'll get back t...

Everybody's going to want to check this out: Marv's Legacy , a new(ish?) YouTube video channel with Marvin Dahlgren talking about pr...

Something I've been playing with— as you know, Gary Chaffee's linear system is based on 3-8 note patterns, starting with the right ...

I'm getting into some finer points of playing the hihat two handed with a younger student, and was tempted to show him a groove I transc...

Continuing that suspect page of jazz rhythms in quintuplets, here are some more practice patterns with bass drum added:  See that post view...