…I almost don’t know where to start. Somewhere over a whirlwind weekend of new friends, amazing experiences, and 2500 miles of travel, I soaked up an awful lot of insight about the wide, wide world of drums and percussion. My first PASIC was, as briefly as I can put it,… Read More »PASIC 2015 – Part 1: Whoa Dude
“Life gets in the way” they say, when all that minutia and micromanagement pulls us away from projects or practice, when we fall short on our promises to get together with this musician, and learn that song, and take care of x or y… They tell kids to get the… Read More »Life Gets In The Way
Ohhhh man! I don’t think I ever considered just how crucial the beater is to the overall sound of a kick drum. It makes sense, of course – just as mallets and HotRods and brushes all have different tone and attack on a head, how even nylon tips make a… Read More »Gear Review: Low Boy Custom Beaters
A little while back, I recounted the slightly silly story of some jams that happened a while back. It wasn’t very “drum specific,” just something that we all may face at one point or another. I wanted to come back to it from a drummer’s angle, though, and talk about the… Read More »Simplify To Expand
Teaching drums seems like tricky business, having only really dabbled in it myself. It’s one thing to go over things with your peers, to compare licks, or even to learn from a teacher (or a video) something reasonably within your skill level… But I’m talking about teaching beginners. Not necessarily kids… Read More »Teaching Drums – First Attempt
Perspective is a funny thing – it has a way of (narrowly) defining how we see the world, and preventing us from seeing the wider picture. We can only ever really understand things through our own experience… even hearing lessons from others and trying to put ourselves in their shoes… Read More »Perspective for Growth
Jack of all trades and master of none? If skills take time and energy to develop (and they certainly do), why waste precious hours on something other than your favorite? Or at least… on things you don’t really plan on putting all that much effort into? My drumming to do… Read More »Why Bother With Other Instruments?
Sometimes booking – especially at the local level – is a little ramshackle… Things fall through, bands cancel, shows get thrown together on a whim, and every once in a while, you’ve got to salvage what could be a frustrating scenario. A while back, I played a show with Short… Read More »Last Minute Gigs (and then some)
Oh snap! After far too much procrastination, I’ve finally decided to start a blog dedicated to this weird, obsessive, vast hobby of mine… Of ours. The butt of jokes and keeper of the time, way too loud with way too much gear. I’ve been doing this thing for half my… Read More »Intro