“Reading music well is not improvising music well. They’re different skill sets.”

I’ve created this site and related Youtube playlist in order to share one of my most successful and fruitful methods of teaching jazz drum comping and soloing.

THE BASIC IDEA: With a very simple group of 2-3 drumming “elements”, or ideas, an entire jazz vocabulary can be developed by most curious and committed drum students.

Whether an intermediate level student or an advanced professional, if you’re looking to broaden your jazz drumming language, this is a non-reading intensive path that can help you.

I know because I’ve used it as part of my teaching practice for 30 years.