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Sly & the Family Stone
Fillmore East
10/5/1968

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Fillmore West
3/14/1969

Sha Na Na
Winterland
4/21/1973

Grateful Dead
Winterland
10/25/1969

Joan Baez
Greek Theatre
6/2/1974

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Madison Square Garden
10/31/1986

Blood, Sweat and Tears
North Mesquite High School
1/20/1973

Mountain
Capitol Theatre
12/30/1973

Janis Joplin
Fillmore East
2/12/1969

The Who
Fillmore East
10/22/1969

Jeff Beck
Riverside Theatre
5/10/1975

Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock
Masonic Auditorium
3/8/1978

Santana and McLaughlin
Berkeley Community Theatre
9/5/1973

Billy Cobham
Bottom Line
2/19/1978

Di Meola, McLaughlin and De Lucia
Warfield Theatre
12/6/1980

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Cornell University
2/23/1973

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Beloit College
3/21/1973

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Palace Theater
5/19/1973

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Orpheum Theatre
3/11/1973

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Berkeley Community Theatre
11/9/1972

Track 1. You are on tour. You’re looking for some cool place to go, some good place where to eat, somewhere to crash or to hang out. Nothing best to know all those things by musicians like you. It’s called social networking. And it works. Now there a new place where touring musicians can share their recommendation with other touring musicians: Reunion Blues Touring Bands’ Guide: the independent touring band’s digital handbook for planning your tour from A to Z.
Reunion Blues is launching a new web site to help …

From the Drumshead magazine education column “The Latin Quarter” by Robby Ameen, you should not miss this article (enhanced with video demo and pdf scores) of how to develope clave and cascara independence on the drumset.
Robbie Ameen is a master of afro-cuban drumming (Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, Ruben Blades, Dave Valentin, Eddie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, Hilton Ruiz and Daniel Ponce, among others. He is the co-author of the best-selling instructional book and CD: Funkifying the Clave: Afro Cuban Grooves for Bass and Drums. Along with Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez, Robby …

A document from the master class by Jeff Moore and Jim Yakas (with the Madison Scouts Bass Line) at University of Central Florida music department. Document analyze problems in performance and suggest solutions. Good for every kind of drummer, anyway
Eg:
A. Rhythmic Interpretation

1. Rhythm is played incorrect (open, closed, out of time), individual cannot play rhythm properly alone and/or rhythm is distorted when split.
2. May be caused by depending on listening only and “fitting” into the ensemble. *Individual should be able to play their part …

Chad Smith, from Red Hot Chili Peppers to new super band. Code Name: ChickenFoot. With Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony. Here’s a podcast, good to listen Chad talking ’bout new notes
CLICK HERE FOR CHAD SMITH PODCAST

Another good guide from MusicRadar, this time dedicated to entry level electronic drum kits: from Yamaha to Roland, with a step for Alesis and Trap. With 4 good buying tips
CLICK HERE FOR THE GUIDE AND ELECTRONIC DRUMSET REVIEWS

On MusicRadar there’s a good guide to five budget metal snare drums (Mapex, Ludwig, Dixon, Worldmax, Highwood). And 4 tips for the snare drum buyer:
1. Once past the £100 mark, every aspect of your snare should improve. Look for a better quality steel shell, or maybe even one in bronze, brass or aluminium. Steel is loud yet sensitive and responsive. aluminium a little drier and tauter, brass and bronze fruitier, darker and more musical.
Shells should be at least 1mm thick, while lugs and tension rods should have nylon washers and …

A trascription for drums of the famous pieces by Steve Reich, ‘Clappin Music’ that is a journey into rythm. Looking for inspiration and a new way to think as a drummer and to play. Wilco’s Glenn Kotche tells the story of his journey. With sheet and transcriptions. Click here fot the article (pdf file)
Other Links

Steve Reich clapping music
Something about Glenn Kotche
Kotche on Modern Drummer

Video
Clapping for two
Clapping for ten

The WEG2006 Freestyle Dressage Final performance of Andreas Helgstrand on Blue Hors Matine. Precision and perfection in every (rythm) movement, ‘dancing, on rock/pop/dance themes Slave to the rythm, You to me are everything, Lady Marmalade. Tell about them to student’s who don’t wanna practice a rudiment
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By the way, Swiss precision. Just like the great Top Secret Drum Corps

What do you feel when you’re in a drumline and the game has the rythm of your drums? And what do you feel searching for just this missed candence? In this beautiful post you can read some of those feelings.
And, if suddenly you absolutely need to play, in this post you can find some links for cadences and other drumline stuff

From podcast abstract: One of the true greats of all time, Max Roach, is fetaured in this short biographical piece, produced by Hudson Music for Zildjian’s 1998 American Drummer Achievement Awards and narrated by Ed Bradley. The second in a series of 5 drummer great profiles – not to be missed! Written and associate produced by Bruce Klauber.

Click here to download the podcast

This is the kind of site you have to fall in love with. Wolfgangs Vault is the place for live music: where you can hear for free thousand of concerts. And you can embed tracks you like in you blog or site too (not yet on wordpress.com hosted blogs), that is always a good, good feature.
“Wolfgang’s Vault is the home for the past, present and future of live music. This is the exclusive destination for The Bill Graham Archives, the King Biscuit Flower Hour and the Record Plant along with …

Brushes are the aristocracy of drumming. They belong to the Glory Days of Buddy (Rich), Philly (Joe Jones), Gene (Krupa), Jack (De Johnette) but we were wrong thinking of it as a gadget for snob drummers. Listen Clayton (Cameron) or Jojo (Mayer) or Peter (Erskine) to understand how much stuff you can do with them.
Brushes need, as sticks, daily practice. If you (and neither your drums’ teacher) have no idea how to practice with brushes, simply start from basics: practice rudiments with brushes as you do with sticks. You …