The Melodic Drummer

Where this blog lives now The bad news is I will no longer be posting at this blogger site.  The good news is, I have a dedicated webpage w...

Kenny Washington Picking right up where we left off with last weeks brush comping exercise : 3.  Practice comping using dotted quarter...

A simple experiment Recently I noticed something peculiar about my comping with brushes.  Depending on what rhythm I was comping, I would c...

Lists imply hierarchy Any list, no matter whether it is intended to or not, implies a hierarchy.  People generally seem to feel that things...

Since my last post about uptempo brush playing I have made some progress and I thought I would share some helpful ideas.   One o...

1. Now's The Time! Charlie Parker In this installment of the series I tried to take my drum arrangement to the next step b...

The Grady Bossa My teacher (the great Chuck Redd ) recently introduced me to a slick new way of playing the bossa nova that he picked up fr...