The New Boss Article
I read this article recently on a popular drum website that sparked some discussion in the forums. I’m sure many of you on my mailing list have read this, but If you haven’t checked it out I would suggest that you take a look at it. I’m posting this mostly for the people on my list who don’t follow the …
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The New Environment
Here’s some great debate on the state of the music business, making money as a musician, and how much different things are these days than they used to be. Whether you are a fan or not, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins has some great opinions on this. In this interview they speak about the current dollar value of music to …
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Krantz Duo Clip
Here is a clip from a recent duo gig I did W/Wayne Krantz. If you watch closely you can see him give some of the cues we discussed in the lessons on my site, and you can get an up close look at what I chose to play…(good or bad) on the fly. Because its just guitar and drums there …
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Multitasking
Over the last week or so I was in a position where I had too many things to do, or at least I felt like I did. Outside of doing 4 gigs with what were essentially different bands, and learning the music for all of this kind of last minute, I was also learning music for a project in California that …
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Wayne Krantz (very short) Interview
Out of all the artists I work with or have worked with, Wayne, and his approach are subjects that I get asked about the most. Drummers always want to know about his concepts, how he phrases, what he listens for, how to approach the gig, etc. I did an interview with Wayne for my Lesson site a while back and …
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What do you do when you lose your gig?
I was teaching privately a while back and someone asked me this question. I wasn’t quite sure what to tell them, or what they were referring to specifically. After doing some digging I realized that they wanted to know what they should be working on when they lose their gig, which is a bit of a different subject than what …
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Your Sound?
I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine on the phone about practicing. He had been discussing this topic with a few different people, all of whom had completely different opinions. It was interesting to see the difference between what drummers thought they should be practicing and what other musicians thought. My family is made up of classical …
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Individual Perception and the Arts
I happen to be doing some gigs in ny this week with a great guitar player that is known for pushing the envelope when it comes to improvisation. I’ve learned a lot about improvising through this person, and through doing his gig. When I began playing with him I realized that the only way I would be able to say …
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Tools of Balance
So, you spend all of this time getting your playing together, doing tons of gigs, recording, touring, and everything else that comes with being a musician. You are having fun and you get caught up being busy and making a living. Playing music becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when you are positive about it. It becomes even more addictive and …
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School VS Online?
Recently i was doing a clinic in NYC at The Collective School and a student asked me if I thought that Online Teaching was as valuable as one on one study, or the music school scenario in general. He sighted different reasons for asking this, but explained that he had heard a fellow student complaining that most of the information …
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