This is a page I'm using with some younger students this week— a variety of stock beats that can be used in most playing situations. We ...

Let's do some more guided listening. Here's Art Blakey playing a little Quincy Jones groove arrangement with a nine piece ensemble: ...

True old school guys approach things a whole different way from the modern technocratic thing. Here's Tootie Heath giving a brush lesson...

Reprinting this from my Facebook page — I encourage you to head over there and add me as a friend. There's a thing going around where mu...

Companion to the late three voice / four note patterns page, in case it wasn't challenging enough for you. This is to aid in playing th...

“Miles could tell me the things he wanted from the drums but I didn’t let him tell me how to play them.” — Jimmy Cobb, 1979 interview  by ...

A new practice loop sampled from Blues at Twilight, from Milt Jackson's album Plenty, Plenty Soul. Horace Silver is on piano here. Tempo...

Continuing in the vein of the recent three voice/three note patterns item. Let's call this series “things I have always been against wr...

Sad news, Portland drummer Steve Hanford, aka Thee Hippy Slayer, has died . Best known for playing with iconic Portland punk band Poison I...