I was practicing this thing…displacing a rhythmic figure if you must know. As usual, I created a musical loop in Logic to play along to. Long-story-short it grew into a complete musical composition!Watch Video
“Where Is One?” A Live Performance
Great Steve Gadd Groove!
I’ve always loved this quintessential pattern by Steve! I first heard it back in 1975….but it is still relevant today!Watch Video
Tuning Toms-My “non-method!”
Tuning toms isn’t easy. They resonate, and because they usually have 2 heads, if you don’t know how to get them to work together you can have a pretty bad-sounding drum. The key is to start out with even tension around each head. If you use my “method”, you then start tweaking.Watch Video
The World Is A Ghetto
This is a cover of an old tune by a band called War, from the early 70s. It features Layonne Holmes on vocals, Mike Hogan on guitar, Cody McCorry on bass, and well, me.Watch Video
Grids PART 2: Quintuplets & Septuplets
If you like a challenge, this video is for you! I show you how to take any pattern and play it over several grids like the previous video. But I added quintuplet and septuplet grids for an extra challenge.Watch Video
Play The SAME Pattern Over Different Grids!
This is one of those exercises that’s totally open-ended. You can use ANY pattern or lick and come up with something that sounds totally different, simply by playing that pattern on a different grid.Watch Video
AKG 460B vs Behringer C-2
I’ve owned a pair of AKG 460 B mics with the CK61-ULS capsule for decades. When I saw the Behringer C-2 matched stereo pair for $50 I had to check them out, and see how they compared to the AKGs.Watch Video
Get Creative With…er…Paradiddles!
In this video, I show you one possibility for using the paradiddle on the kit. Of course, there are many, many more. ANYTHING can spark a creative moment…even ye olde PARADIDDLES!Watch Video
I Did A Drum Clinic – 15 Years Ago!
While going through some old VHS tapes I found one on which was recorded a drum clinic I had apparently done back in the early 2000s.Watch Video
Great Billy Cobham Lick from 1984!
A fellow YouTuber turned me on to this lick from a song called “Radio Activity” off of John McLaughlin’s 1984 album called…oddly enough…Mahavishnu. 🙂Watch Video