Drums
Trading Fours Like Elvin Jones: Style And Analysis
A few months ago, I shared with you a lesson on Elvin Jones, entitled How To Comp On The Drums Like Elvin Jones, in which...
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How to Make Pro Drum Charts For Small Jazz Ensembles
One of the biggest pet peeves of being a drummer is to deal with poorly made charts. For some strange reason, musicians tend to neglect drum...
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Developing Your Hi-Hat Technique: More on The Third Voice Concept
A few months ago, I started this series of articles to develop our coordination with the left foot on the hi-hat cymbals.In the previous lesson, Developing...
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3 Concepts to Develop Solo Ideas With Stick Control
Stick Control is a book written by the great late George Lawrence Stone. It was published in 1935 and became one of the most...
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Developing Your Hi Hat Technique: An Introduction To The Third Voice
In jazz drumming, The use of the hi-hat cymbals has evolved throughout the years. In the early years, time feel was mostly played on...
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Jazz Drumset Language: Resolution Points
Have you ever wondered why Jazz drums sound the way they do? What exactly makes them have that particular sound and feel?In this lesson,...
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How to Comp On The Drums Like Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was born September 9, 1927, in Pontiac, Michigan. He grew up in a musical home of jazz musicians. Hank Jones and...
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Rudimental Drummer: 2 Concepts To Incorporate Wilcoxon’s Solos Into Your Playing
Charles Wilcoxon was one of the most innovative and prolific drum educators/Authors of the 20th century. He wrote several books on hand technique and...
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Dealing With Song Forms: Tips for Drummers
Drummers, in jazz and popular music, have two primary functions.One is to keep an excellent time feel, a foundation for the rest of the...
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Awesome Philly Joe Jones Lick and Solo Analysis
For this month's drum lesson we are going to analyze a lick played by one of the fathers of bebop drumming: the great late...