Modern Drummer Issue 457

2017·16 MB·English

12 Modern Drummer June 2014

Booth #1219
Always on the go, Daru Jones desired a highly portable cymbal set for hip-hop
sessions, DJ Jams, and other sit-ins that spontaneously present themselves, enabling
him to preserve his personal sound in modern urban mobility. The concept was
developed in the PST X series, which provides a suitable basis for the type of fast
and dry sounds that perfectly fit the world of Hip-hop & Electronica percussion. It is
executed with the DJs 45 set consisting of a 12" Crash, 12" Ride and 12" Hats.

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CCOONNTTEENTNSTS Volume 41 • Number 12
Cover and Contents photos by Andreas Neumann
FEATURES
28 MODERN DRUMMER 2018 56 ELI KESZLER
READERS POLL The multidisciplinary artist has
Make your voice heard in the most dedicated much of his career
important poll in the drumming to exploring the solo drumset’s
expressionistic capabilities,
world!
leading to new creative and career
opportunities.
30 THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS’
by Keith Carne
PAUL GARISTO
In addition to many years spent pow-
ering the iconic band, he’s toured and 60 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT…
recorded with Iggy Pop, Ryan Adams, DENNIS BRYON
You’ve heard his platinum grooves
and many other greats. For him,
with the Bee Gees countless times,
though, the studying never stops.
but you might not have any idea who
by Chris Boyle
he is. We can help with that.
by Zoro
32 ON TOPIC: ROY MCCURDY
The spry elder statesman, who made
a splash in the mid-’60s with the 64 IN MEMORIAM:
Cannonball Adderley Quintet’s JOHN BLACKWELL JR.
A tribute to the longtime Prince
soul-jazz classic “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,”
drummer, who left us far too early.
is still showing us how it’s done.
by Drew Schultz
by Bob Girouard
34 QUEENS OF THE STONE 50 JUSTIN BROWN 88 12 HEARTLAND PROG ALBUMS
Once the original progressive British
AGE’S JON THEODORE His approach—immersing himself in
bands, like Jethro Tull, ELP, and
the task at hand, and examining
The best idea wins, as the former Mars Volta Genesis, blew open the gates of
it from every angle—has led to
drummer leaves his signifi cant mark on QotSA’s rhythmic delirium, a crop of wild-
artistic gold with Thundercat, Gerald
killin’ new Villains. Story by David Ciauro eyed Americans charged through
Clayton, Flying Lotus, and beyond.
with some daring ideas of their own.
Plus an exclusive Theodore Style and Analysis by by Ken Micallef
by Will Romano
Austin Burcham
LESSONS EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENTS
70 Basics 18 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview
Dressing Up Your Fills Yamaha Rydeen RDP2F5 Drumset Learn to Love Easy
Fresh Ideas to Kick Off the Band Paiste 900 Series Cymbals by Adam Budofsky
by Powell Randolph Black Swamp Dynamicx
Snare Drums 10 Readers’ Platform
72 Strictly Technique Los Cabos White Hickory, What’s Your Favorite Prog
Flowing Diddles, Triple Strokes, Red Hickory, and Maple Drumsticks Drumming Record?
and Paradiddles
Essential Motions for Smoother Transitions 26 Collector’s Corner 12 Out Now
by Bill Bachman John Aldridge August Burns Red’s Matt Greiner
by Harry Cangany
73 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic 13 On Tour
Fill Displacements 68 Gearing Up Roy Mayorga with Stone Sour
Deepen Your Vocabulary Janet Jackson’s John Roberts
14 News
by Dave DiCenso
80 New and Notable
16 Must-Have Gear
74 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop
Mark Guiliana
Rhythmic Conversions
Part 5: Brazilian Grooves and WIN! 82 Showcase
the Half-Note Triplet
A Yamaha DTX760K electronic drumset featuring Drum Market
by Steve Fidyk
worth $3,499!
86 Critique
76 Rock Perspectives Page 91
Neo-Prog, American Style
The Circuit
An Ambidextrous Routine for 92 Inside Methods
Ultimate Control Peter Magadini’s Polyrhythmic Life
by Aaron Edgar
94 Backbeats
78 Concepts 2017 DCI World Championship
Drum Design Knowledge Results
Part 2: Shell Types and Thicknesses
by Russ Miller 96 Kit of the Month
Sonor Swinger

AANN E DEIDTOITRO’S ROV’SE ROVVIEEWRVIEW
Learn to Love Easy Founder
Ronald Spagnardi
1943–2003
Publisher/CEO Senior Art Director
There’s a folksy old saying that goes something Isabel Spagnardi Scott G. Bienstock
like, “People sure do make things more
diffi cult than they need to.” We’ve all made Senior Vice President Editorial Director
Lori Spagnardi Adam J. Budofsky
that observation at one time or another about
others—and, let’s be honest, at times we even
Vice President Managing Editor
make it about ourselves. We should, at least. o Kevin W. Kearns Michael Dawson
Sometimes we’ll ignore replacing an osit
p
outmoded, high-maintenance piece of gear, Es Associate Publisher Associate Editor
perhaps out of some misplaced sense of Jim Tracy A. Kearns Willie Rose
romance, or willful ignorance: Yeah, my bass
Advertising Director Editor at Large
drum pedal breaks a lot and squeaks something fi erce, but I’ve been playing it
Bob Berenson Billy Amendola
forever and a new one is going to feel weird and…. Wait a minute—what am I
thinking? I need a new pedal! Advertising Assistant Business and
On the other end of the spectrum, we can get so wrapped up in our ever- LaShanda Gibson Content Development
increasing ability to “improve” our beats with computer software that we fi nd Miguel Monroy
ourselves staring bleary-eyed at a monitor at 4 a.m., microscopically nudging
The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun,
backbeats in search of some perfect-yet-still-human-feeling groove. And then
Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen,
it hits us like a ton of bricks that one of the reasons we love real live players like Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward,
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Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley,
feeling grooves. Wait a minute—what am I thinking? I need to practice with a
Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward,
metronome more! Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico
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