Roy Haynes playing behind Herbie Hancock's solo, on the title track of Jackie McLean's record It's Time. There's a lot of wh...

For a long time I've been thinking about developing a system of analysis for drumming, like the harmonic analysis you do in college theo...

A little writing experiment, like my old Funk Control pages, and my Philly Joe solo page . Here we have a lot of jazz soloing clichés, to p...

A small item for your consideration and experimentation.   On a drumming forum, a user was complaining that practicing paradiddles didn'...

I wrote this for a couple of my younger students— it's a collection of simple jazz patterns that we went over verbally in a lesson. It&#...

I'm feeling a little irked at the existence of YouTube drumming videos today, so let's do a search of a subject near and dear to me,...

“Honor Your Mistake as a Hidden Intention.” - Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the not...

Here's a tweak to an ordinary straight 8th note Syncopation practice method: right hand plays the melody rhythm, left hand fills in the ...

I'm at the point where I've published so much stuff on the site, I'm a little embarrassed. I don't want people thinking I&#...