Sad news, but a life well lived. I found this on wiki, surprised me. I didn't know he got concepts from Rich. ....'roommates'...haha, how cool is that? "Gruber played with Charlie Parker, among many others. Making fast friends with his roommate, fellow drummer Buddy Rich, he observed Rich's &qu...

LoL Lucas! I had the honor to take private lessons with Chris summer 2010. He also took me with him to some local gigs in LA and some great restaurants as well ... the man 'is' great fun! To my ears he is very musically, it's just a different vocabulary. But I'm not really a fan regarding drum battl...

Congratulations Steve!! And a big Thank You for this great board as well, 'nicely done'.

Amen to Yussuf! I was in my teens playing and listening and 'living' punk rock. It was my second drum teacher who pointed at Jazz as being a 'must check out' for the sake of being a better grounded drummer. In those days there was no easy access to music trough internet so I went to the public libra...

In general the all famous "eighties era" Recording Custom is build to be excellent for near-field situations [close mic] These drums are awesome and will sound centered and fat without any dampening. They are therefore not the greatest drums if you want acoustic 'big boom' and long sustain...

Thanks again! Matt, nicely put! @ Rene The "Killer" ex. Morello shows is exactly what I was talking about. @ Matthughen & Circh Bustom; thanks for clearing that out. @Jean Paul. I agree on the ignorance part, but I'm often amazed about how few guys, except jazz drummers and guys studyi...

Thanks again for all the input! Much appreciated! The whole thing is about translation really. In Europe, or Holland at least, I've come across some slightly different terms or even regular wrong naming. I'll give some examples. Break - for Fill [I suppose break means pause] Afterbeat - for Backbeat...

Thanks Guys! @ Tombo, the exercise is of course a combination of single stroke and double stroke. But this specific figure is a string of sixteen 32-end notes. So it covers 2 counts. I thought it might have name. But reason has it that you should call it : paraparaparaparadiddlediddlediddlediddle .....

There are 2 rudimental exercises I've known for years that I cannot 'name' or label. They're not in the 40 Rudiments list from PAS or VF but they are very common. The first one is grouped ; rlrlrlrl rrllrrll and is played as a seamless roll. The second one is [R & L for accent] a figure of six :...

Randy, I'm so sorry for your loss.