A flurry of drumming activity of actual interest on Bluesky this morning. So far much of the drumming content there has been pretty mundane...

The general topic here is jazz comping— some general concepts thereof, getting into what I think is missing from a lot of students' play...

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This is connected with all the fill related jive we've been dealing with lately. I share it with you to illustrate a thought process, n...

Here's Mickey Roker playing behind Donald Byrd on Essence, from Byrd's record Electric Byrd. It's vibey modal thing, in a slower...

This has been an item of interest for a long time— playing fast in a slow tempo. In a master class Peter Erskine mentioned that Jack Dejohne...

Another cut-and-paste, hack-and-slash job, extracting some two measures phrases from the full page exercises in Syncopation. For when I want...

Here are some things I was playing around with while playing my page of 3/8 fills — embellishments on things on that page. Some odd sticking...

Here's an incredibly beautiful solo set by my friend, and friend of the site, Michael Griener. News of Roy Haynes's death broke dur...