2022 - Benjamin Waterson

Review: Count Me In

December 18, 2022

I did some traveling this week, so we’ll be ending the year on kind of a light note. But while flying, I finally got around to watching Netflix’s 2021 drumming documentary Count Me In, and I figured I would opine on it briefly. (Not that anyone cares at this point — the film has been…
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Drum Groove: “Take Me Back” — Benjamin Waterson with Saint Vrain

December 11, 2022

I know what you’re thinking: yeesh… this guy really must be running out of things to talk about if he’s dissecting his own playing! Well, after writing a eulogy last week for my band Saint Vrain, I guess I want my drumming to have something of a legacy since the group will never amount to…
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When the Gig Doesn’t Work Out

December 4, 2022

Tonight, in Boulder, I’ll be playing my first gig in too long, drumming for a new group I joined back in August: River Mann. It’s also well and truly this band’s first proper gig, so I haven’t been advertising it too heavily… but I’m excited nonetheless. I guess at this point I should comment on…
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Groove: “Fragments From the Decade” — Jason McGerr with Death Cab for Cutie

November 27, 2022

Death Cab released an album back in September, so it’s time for another Jason McGerr groove lesson. For this LP, I was torn between today’s song and track 4, “Randy McNally.” I suspected I was going to the latter, which features verses in 7/8 time. Much like the Coldplay songs I talked about back in…
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Review: Accents and Rebounds by George Lawrence Stone

November 13, 2022

Here’s a dumb joke from the drumming world: “Don’t you know who George Lawrence Stone is? He wrote page five from Stick Control!” I’m seriously convinced most drummers never bother with the rest of the book. I saw a thread on r/Drums a while back where someone asked for help in making sense of some…
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