Drum Lessons, Drum Sessions, Audio Recording - Joe The Drummer

Skamonics Gig

Joe The Drummer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:07:23 +0000

Had a great time playing with the Skamonics who have me sit in when their drummer, Mark, can’t make it.

The Skamonics are one of the UKs top Ska function bands playing a mixture of Ska standards and Skanked-up pop tunes. With a top brass section out front, you can’t beat ‘em.

The band were on top form and the wedding guests had a fab time.

It was a good time to try my 13″ DW Collectors Maple snare which I am still not sure about. It sounded pretty good tonight although it seems to lack personality. My Pearl Masters Studio BRX kit sounded cool.

Hard working drummer’s hands shot at amazing angle

Joe The Drummer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:37:10 +0000

This is brilliant. I never heard of this band but watching this bloke play from a head-mounted camera is seriously entertaining and informative.

All you ever need to know about the funk:

Joe The Drummer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:20:35 +0000

Bootsie and ‘Jabo’ Starks explain the JB’s “One”

London Drum Show

Joe The Drummer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:18 +0000

Check out the London Drum Show on September 4th and 5th at London’s Olympia:

www.londondrumshow.com

Improve Your Internal Clock

Joe The Drummer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:35:53 +0000

We all need to work on our time keeping. Here is a cool lesson from Joe Crabtree with some exercises you can do even without a kit. Always good.

Avoiding Avoidance

Joe The Drummer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:36:47 +0000

Here is an interesting article about not avoiding those challenging things we should be doing (like, er, posting on one’s blog…).

“Do you ever dodge your creative work? Say, your practice time arrives, and you race off to do some chore. It might be a chore that you detest, but now it calls to you. Then, instead of refining your music, you start cleaning the house or doing whatever”

http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/avoiding-avoidance.html

Interview with Recording Legend Steve Albini

Joe The Drummer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:00 +0000

Here is an interesting interview with Steve Albini.

Mr Albini is famous for recording In Utero for Nirvana and annoying the band’s management and label for making the record the way the band wanted it instead of how the accountants wanted it.

Here’s a Pixies track recorded by Steve Albini to give you a taste of his studio chops.

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/steve-albini-producing-2000-albums-almost-being-put-out-business-geffen-after-recording-nirvana-jonas-brothers-and-disregarding-listening-audience-i/

Will you join No Music Day, 21st November?

Joe The Drummer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:57:06 +0000

www.nomusicday.com

Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

Joe The Drummer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:18:15 +0000

An interesting article on The Times website suggest that music artists are seeing growth in revenues even as record industry revenues plummet.

As a struggling musician, this is the kind of news I find encouraging. It seems to me that if the business model for selling music copied on to a physical medium (wax, vinyl, CD etc.) is no longer relevant, let it die. Recorded music can not be protected from copying without introducing draconian controls over data sharing which will impact the flow of all ones and zeros on the web. If you are not convinced, check out Darth Mandelson’s proposals.

What would be wrong with a world where musicians can earn a reasonable living doing all the stuff most of us working musos do anyway? Losing the mega rich stars is not a loss. Bye Bye Coldplay and U2, I won’t lament your passing.

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/

How to get ahead in the new music biz.

Joe The Drummer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:30:54 +0000

Here is an interesting article that prolific music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz linked in one of his emails.