Looking for a fun warm-up exercise for the drums? Well, here’s the Peter Erskine warm-up! You can watch Erskine chatting about it and download the sheet music below. I came across this warm-up popularised by Peter Erskine whilst looking at old drum videos on YouTube. I say ‘popularised’ rather than ‘written’, because Erskine was taught …
In 2013, I made a short series of videos covering the basics of drumming for my students. This course (which I’m now calling 12 Drum Lessons for Beginners) was posted on my old blog which isn’t updated anymore, so I thought I’d post it here for anyone who’s looking for some videos on the fundamentals of drumming. At the …
Are you looking for a drum transcription of ‘Chameleon’? If so, some of this might interest you. ‘Chameleon’ is the first track on the landmark 1973 jazz album by Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters. For several years after its release, it was the largest-selling jazz record of all time. As with a lot of jazz, the music is instrumental, with …
Here it is! The one and only Oscar Jerome ‘Gravitate’ drum transcription. Yesterday, a student asked me if I’d heard the latest ditty by Oscar Jerome called ‘Gravitate’. I hadn’t, so I pulled up the single on Spotify and had listen. Crivens, I thought, that’s a really weird beat. And so began the process of …
DISCLAIMER 1: When I started writing this blog about my Black Beauty snare drum (from now on referred to as a BB), I thought it would be fun to work out its age. However, having waded through all the confusion and ambiguity on the web, I can honestly say I’ve rarely spent so much time …
