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Yeah, that’s me on the milk can. I used it as a throne in high school. I can’t recall the name of this particular band but I’m pretty sure it was put together by me and these other Murrah high school band geeks for the Jackson MS Arts Festival. Band Geeks Rule!
The response to my request for the new “Show us your vintage drum” feature was great. Check it out. I think we have a couple of possible new column writers!
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New Category!!! called “Show Us Your Vintage Drums” for anyone to post pictures of your vintage drums. No writing required but would be welcome.
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It’s too flarging hot!
Read moreI could not hold on to the stick with my left hand. My left hand grip was gone
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These copper drums go for a lot more but I’ve price this one to sell. More pictures upon request. I played it before the lug broke and it sounded great.
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Want to sell your gear the old fashioned way? Advertise in NSMD. Also you can let NSMD handle the whole sale on a consignment basis.
Read moreDuring Covid in 1920 I bought some Remo Silent Stroke heads and some “holy cymbals” to put on my teaching kit at home. My wife Georgetta was working from home so I had to lower the volume.
Read moreI was hesitant to write this article for several years because I was still betwixt and between “growing older” and “old”. It is a subject that most drummers want to put off thinking about until later, and sometimes until it’s too late.
Read moreJack DeJohnette, one of jazz’s most inventive and wide-ranging drummers, whose supple, multidirectional rhythms helped redefine modern jazz for more than six decades, died Sunday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 83. The cause was congestive heart failure, according to his wife and manager, Lydia DeJohnette.
Read moreMy new book, The Missing Rudiments, is on sale as a printable pdf down load now in the NotSoModernDrummer Store. An excerpt from the book is in this month’s emailed issue.
Read moreFrom my new book “The Missing Rudiments - ”The current modern majority opinion is that, since they can’t both be and are not the same thing, a drag has double stroke grace notes and most ruffs have single stroke grace notes. I agree with that majority in keeping it simple but with the caveat that there are other known stickings for ruffs by historically important authors, which are included in this book. So,“ruff is ruff, drag is drag, and never the twain shall meet.
Read moreMoving, inventory liquidation, July/August issue, spinning plates in the air.
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There are a few changes going on at Not So Modern Drummer and with me. First and foremost, Billy Cuthrell is the new owner of DrumSellers.com.
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George Roy Lawrence III’s desk, inherited from George Roy Lawrence Jr. and custom built for George Roy Lawrence Senior.
Sorry for the late April Issue. Life happens and gets in the way. Seems like I bite off more than I can chew these days.
Read moreThis is a game changer – the most obvious advancement being the drastically reduced weight.
Read moreNot a lot of articles this month. I suspect some of the writers are still shoveling snow off their driveways, BUT, there are some great ones. Especially Ed Tucker’s review of the first snare drums released by the new Slingerland company! An exclusive for NSMD.
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I hope you all had a good holiday and didn’t get switches and ashes in your stockings! There are some great articles in this issue. Jim
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I am also finished with my book I’ve been writing for at least a year – “ The Missing Rudiments – Expanding the American rudiment system with missing and long forgotten fundamental snare drum rudiments, plus the new drum set unison rudiments”.
Read moreThe Samba Train beat. video episode #5 in “5 minute lessons with George Lawrence”
Read moreEpisode #3 of 5 minute lessons with George Lawrence. This is a linear groove that Steve Klink taught me when I was teaching at Fork’s Drum Closet in the nineties; The Garibaldi Seven.
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