Patience

Learning to be patient with myself has been an on-going process for me. This seems to get harder and not easier when I’m trying something new on the drum set. The more I’m able to execute complex ideas that have taken me a while to...

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Dynamics

It’s been my experience that when playing music, it’s important to have a sense of dynamics. Not everything is meant to played as loud as possible. This is true whether you’re at a jam session (“sitting in”) or...

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Musical Transitions

One skill that I like to work on is creating musical transitions from one section of a song to the next. This may a song with vocals or an instrumental tune. There are times when a very simple drum fill seems like the right thing and then other...

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Student Recitals

I had the pleasure of being part of the rhythm section that backed up a number of student performers this past weekend at a student recital. For some of these young students, this was their first time in front of an audience other than their...

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