Tag: 2020
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“How Many More Times” Drum Transcription — John Bonham with Led Zeppelin
Happy Holidays, everyone! This week, I decided to share something I started a long time ago, which I’ve recently polished up: fills and solos from “How Many More Times” off of Led Zeppelin’s debut album, with John Bonham on drums. I think it’s appropriate to close out my first year on the site with this…
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Review: Sound of Metal
Whaaa—two posts in one week?! Well, I figured I’d slip another post in because I want to quickly share my thoughts on a film I just watched, Sound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed as a heavy metal drummer. I have to be wary of movies that are about drummers. On the one hand, you have something…
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Drum Solos
So it’s time to distill my thoughts from the Memorial Concert posts. The first thing I want to talk about concerns drum solos since I originally wanted to share a solo from each drummer. I had to can an audible partway through this project, when I realized that notating six solos was not gonna happen. It…
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“Wind Machine” Drum Transcription — Louie Bellson with The Buddy Rich Big Band
At long last! It’s finally time to wrap up the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert posts. Louie Bellson takes us home with the tune “Wind Machine,” from the first half. I kind of went about these in a weird order — Steve Gadd and Gregg Bisonette were the first drummers I had worked on, so I…
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“Mercy Mercy Mercy” Drum Transcription — Dave Weckl with The Buddy Rich Big Band
This week, Dave Weckl will bring us the penultimate entry for these Memorial Concert posts with the tune “Mercy Mercy Mercy”. I must say, these posts have sure kept me busy. I feared I bit off a little more than I could chew when I got to Vinnie’s post, but now the end is in…
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The name’s Ben, although professionally I’m known as Benjamin. I’m a drummer and part-time saxophonist in the Colorado Front Range.
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