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| CURRENT NEWS Updated: October - 2012 |
1. The Caribbean Club in Key Largo is where I have been playing weekend nights with the Luke Sommer Glenn Band, doing Classic and Southern Rock. We also play Wednesday nights at the Pilot House in Key Largo. See Schedule for details. |
2. This year's Guitar Center Drum Off continues with the Quarterfinals Competition on Tuesday October 30 at the Hallandale GC location. Winners from other Guitar Centers from all of Florida and several Southeastern states will compete there to move to the next level. I was one of the Judges at the Kendall Store recently, where Hilario Bell was declared the winner. Looking forward to seeing him compete with other great drummers at the contest. |
| 3. I have been putting together some new practice material involving hands against feet. Some exercises have the hands matching the feet, other routines use contrasting patterns to challenge coordination. Some of my students are boosting their playing working on these new ideas. Details and documentation to come later. |
| 4. Any of my books may now be ordered directly through this website using any major Credit Card or Paypal. Just click the Megachops button. |
| 5. The Listening Basket- Here’s the CD’s that have been in rotation lately: Mahavishnu Orchestra-Cleveland 1972, Lost Trident Sessions; Decrepit B-Diminishing Between Worlds, And Time Begins; Into Eternity-Buried in Oblivion; UK- Danger Money; Divine H- Bringer of Plagues; Allan Holdsworth- 16 Men of Tain, Wardenclyffe Tower; Tommy Bolin- Private Eyes; Pantera- Reinventing the Steel; The Hermanators- Twisted; Jeff Beck- Wired; Paul Bley/Jaco Pastorius- Jaco; Faceless- Planetary Duality; On The Virg- serious Young Insects; Joe Locke- 4 Walls of Freedom; Flesh Apocolypse- Oracles; Chick Corea El Band- Paint the World; Necrophagist- Epitaph; Wayne Krantz- Long to be Loose; Blotted Science- Mechinations of Dementia; Chimaira- Impossibility of Reason; Animals as Leaders- Self Titled; Jan Hammer- Oh Yeah; Scott Jones- Freedom; Disavowed- Stagnated Existence; Planet X- Quantum; Will Calhoun- Housework; Yellowjackets- Altered State, Time Squared. |
| 6. Vintage Vinyl- Here’s the records that have been spinning on the turntable lately: John Abercrombie- Gateway; Jerry Goodman/Jan Hammer- Like Children; Mahavishnu Orchestra- Between Nothingness and Eternity; Toto- Self Titled; Tower of Power- In the Slot, Back to Oakland; Grachan Moncur III- Evoluton; Herbie Hancock- Empyrean Isles; McCoy Tyner- Supertrios; Allan Holdsworth- Sand; Monty Python- Matching Tie and Handkerchief; Bang- Self Titled; UK- Night after Night; Ralph Moore- Images; Kansas- Monolith, Song for America; Makoto Ozone- After; Bill Evans- We Will Meet Again; Chick Corea- Now he Sings, Now he Sobs; Genesis- Foxtrot; Branford Marsalis- Trio Jeepy; Andrew Hill- Point of Departure. |
| ~ Recent News ~ |
1. I’ve been slowly writing three new drumbooks that are still works in progress: A sequel to Megamatrix using layered limb patterns, a book on metal blast beats, and a book about polymetric double bass grooves based on the styles of Tomas Haake and Virgil Donati. 2. Some of the drumbooks that have given me inspiration and work to do lately: Virgil Donati’s Transcription Book, Derek Roddy’s Evolution of Blast Beats, and Marco Minnemann’s Maximum Minneman. |