Tag: Education
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Joel Rothman — A (Mostly) Complete Bibliography
Every drummer has heard of Joel Rothman, one of the most prolific (and for a while mysterious) drum authors in history, who certainly has the biggest catalogue available of any author currently. While I have yet to talk about Joel at length, I have a few dozen of his books, with, as always, many more…
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Drum Notation — 2 Voices Reconsidered
If I find myself unable to get new articles out, I’ll often spend time revisiting old articles to touch them up, and sometimes take a peek at older transcriptions. It’s mainly to look at the engraving of my drum notation, just to see if I did anything particularly odd that week — I don’t have…
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A ChatGPT Roast
The summer of 2025 marks some interesting anniversaries for me. It was a little over ten years ago that I graduated from high school, and soon enough, it will have been ten years since I moved out to Colorado. Any day now will mark 20 years since my first drum lesson, which is more or…
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Joe Morello — Off the Record
It has recently come to my attention that someone has taken the time to scan and bootleg a long-lost, out-of-print drum book, Joe Morello — Off the Record, written largely by Marvin Dahlgren, and published in 1966. If you’re reading this, looking for a download, here ya go. I found Off the Record while writing…
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Mastering Tuplets on Dotted Notes (X:3 Rhythms in 4/4)
Let’s have another quick look at the new Sungazer album, jumping to a later part of the record: track 7, “Cool 7,” the majority of which is in 7. This tune is actually the reason I even knew this LP came out, as I stumbled across a video the band shared explaining some of the…
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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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