Notes on Pedagogy

A brief list of techniques, styles and books I generally work with when appropriate:

-Beginning to advanced jazz comping, soloing and musicality

-Beginning to advanced rock, funk and latin styles and grooves

-Basic to advanced snare drum reading, technique and repertoire, from classical to rudimental

Books and other Materials:

-“Syncopation” (Ted Reed): “Reading for the Modern Drummer” (Gil Breines and Louis Bellson): “Internalization” (Alan Hall): “The Arts of Bop Drumming” and “BeBop and Beyond” (John Riley)"; The All American Drummer” (Charlie Wilcoxen); “

-The Alan Dawson Ritual” (Alan Dawson): “Essential Groove Sheets” (Alan Hall): “Motion Exercises” (Tony Williams); transcriptions of recorded performances of countless drummers in the pop, rock, R and B, and funk Idioms; “Max Roach Book” of solo transcriptions by Danial Harding Israelsen.