The human body is an amazing machine. Do anything often enough and consistently enough, and it will start to feel natural. This can be both a blessing and a curse. As musicians, we want our physical motions to become habitual. As I always tell my students – we study technique so that we don’t have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'lessons'
Better Music Reading Through Predicting The Future
March 28th, 2011 · No Comments · lessons, practicing, video
It’s time to practice reading music, and really conquering that part of our musical development. One of the key factors that separates master readers from average readers is the amount of information taken in at a glance. Average readers let their eyes track along with what they are playing, which is actually really hard to [...]
Tags: lesson·music·sight reading
Free Video Drum Lesson
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · lessons, video
Here’s the 2nd in the ongoing series of videos focused on applying the snare drum rudiments to the drum set! This lesson focuses on rudiments 2 and 3, the single 4 and single 7. Enjoy!
New Video Drumset Lesson
October 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · lessons, practicing, video
I’ve just posted a new, FREE video lesson to the site. This is the first in a series of lessons dealing with rudiments at the drumset. Lesson 1 is focused on Rudiment #1, the single stroke roll. Stay tuned, we’ll eventually cover all 40 rudiments in drumset applications. .pdf notation for this lesson is available [...]
