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I teach really well. My students go on to perform at and participate at upper level drum schools and colleges, march drum corps and world level indoor drum lines. I have had students play at the Montreux jazz festival, Carnegie Hall...my high school program is the top CAtholic program in the...

I tend to lock in to the drummers subdivisional hand more than anything else....

oh I don't disagree either...maybe I am more meaning the vocal cadence? but as @doggyd69b mentioned, the only thing that really changes in pop music is the lyrics...or more specifically, modern pop music, so that is more of what I am referencing

i will add that sometimes you lock in with the bass player and sometimes you play in their space to create variety and conversation and now that I think of it...the only musicians I ever hear talking about the bass drum and bass guitar always having to be locked in....are non bassists, and...

sounds like he was singer or guitar player in disguise....

I still feel like in pop, the music is the least important thing...the subject matter of the lyrics is the most...it is what sells pop. The same old tropes restated in the latest colloquialisms....and sadly, the music even takes 3rd chair to the "dancing" in many forms of pop but I definitely...

I would buy the Manu Katche pack!!!!!

there have been a few weekends in my past where I did community orchestra on Friday from 7pm-9pm, then to punk/metal gig from 11pm-1am, and then jazz band the next afternoon at a wedding....honestly, my training in marching band and school bands - both college and high school - trained me to be...

yeah...I have always been guilty of being First In and Last Out at any gig or job that I have had. It is my dads influence on me for sure. Leave things better than you found them.

yeah...they should do a few diffrent packs actually 14" Ambassador coated with Ambassador clear snare 14" Ambassador coateds with Ambassador hazy snare 14" ambassador coated with diplomat clear they could sell a lot of those!

super jealous!!! That is heaven to me

yeah...when I was typing my response, I was less worried about exact dates....I assumed that tape recording was happening back in the 40's...but I still will say that we have always been editing performances when we could. I have always been astounded by orchestral recordings as well....no...

so I just bought a 14" ambassador coated and a 14" snare side hazy at Columbus Pro for school, and the total bill was $31 for both. I have been a customer there since they opened in 1981, and will gladly pay a bit more to shop local...

so my dad was my first teacher - back when I was 4 years old, and he just played a basic rock beat for me with the kick on 1-3 and snare on 2-4. I had to count out loud and air drum while he played, and then when it was my turn, we started with the bass drum only, and me counting out loud, and...

I also had people teach me that "drums need to be a certain sound for this style of music", but I was lucky enough that before that, they showed me how to actually tune the drum...like how to get a tone at each tension rod, and then to match them. And how the heads work with each other. The...

by the time I gained enough "wisdom" to be at the tape splicing level, the very first version of Pro Tools came out, and we spent more time learning/working with that...

tuning is subjective for sure....but there are things that "don't work" in a lot of tuning schemes, and it is good to get to know those things and avoid using them when the time is wrong. I generally hate the sound and feel of a bass drum with laundry inside of it, but I also realize that my...

yep...one of my first experiences in a studio - in 1982ish - was helping the engineers splice tapes....mostly cleaning up the mess afterwards bc I was pretty young, but it taught me a lot about how "the magic" happened....

same...we were just talking about this the other day...I am old enough to remember the 70's gas crisis, 2 major recessions, and about 4 inflation scares. We managed to get through them all....I grew up in a lower middle class, working class family. My grandparents on both sides were Great...

I can not like this enough!!! in marching band, we always say your band is only as good as your tubas and bass drums...same with concert band...tubas and bass drummer same with rock/jazz/stage bands....bass player first and drummer second!!!