Modern Drummer Issue 367

2010·19 MB·English

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CONTENTS
Volume 34, Number 6 • Cover photo by Paul La Raia
FEATURES
30 ROBIN RUSSELL
His playing with the ’70s soul/funk band New Birth is revered by those
lucky enough to experience it the first time around. Today the drummer
continues to share the funk with fans at reunion shows—and with anyone
who happens upon his little corner of L.A.’s Griffith Park.
34 RICHARD CHRISTY
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Pa relentless woodshedders a drumset has ever seen.
40 THE ROOTS’
AHMIR “QUESTLOVE”
THOMPSON
Their time on Fallon has left the hip-hop pioneers pumped and playing
40 stronger than ever. Quest and Co. harnessed that energy, booked studio
time, and produced the “live” R&B album of their dreams.
14 SPECIAL PRE-FESTIVAL UPDATE
ROYAL CROWN REVUE’S DANIEL GLASS
PRINCE’S CHRIS COLEMAN
COHEED AND CAMBRIA’S CHRIS PENNIE
SNL’S SHAWN PELTON
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GALACTIC’S STANTON MOORE
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18 GIMME 10! PAUL WERTICO
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70 WOODSHED
CYNDI LAUPER’S SAMMY MERENDINO
74 PORTRAITS
HALESTORM’S AREJAY HALE
GALLOWS’ LEE BARRATT
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EDUCATION
50 CONCEPTS
IT’S ALL IN THE TOUCHDEVELOPING YOUR SOUND FROM WITHINby Ben Sesar 20
52 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE
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54 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC ayre
FUNCTIONAL 5s AND 7s ODD-NOTE GROUPINGS FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS S
by Doug Tann
56 ROCK PERSPECTIVES
POLYRHYTHMS, PART 6: SUPERIMPOSED SHUFFLES by Rod Morgenstein
58 THE FUNKY BEAT
GADSON’S GROOVE, PART 2 “LET A WOMAN BE A WOMAN, LET A MAN BE A MAN”
by David Garibaldi
DEPARTMENTS 64
8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
IT’S PERSONAL by Michael Parillo
10 READERS’ PLATFORM
12 ASK A PRO
MAX AND JAY WEINBERG ELECTRONIC GIZMOS
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16 IT’S QUESTIONABLE
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84 DRUM MARKET
88 CRITIQUE
90 BACKBEATS
NYC WINTER JAZZFEST • SABIAN LIVE 2010 • 2009 GROZNJAN INTERNATIONAL
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96 KIT OF THE MONTH 70
SEEING DOUBLE
88
EQUIPMENT
20 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP
• SONOR PHIL RUDD SIGNATURE KIT AND DANNY CAREY SNARE
• MEINLM-SERIES CYMBALS
• GEORGE WAY AERO, HOLLYWOOD, AND STUDIO SNARES
• LATIN PERCUSSIONRIO BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION LINE
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64 GEARING UP Pa
• SHAKIRA’S BRENDAN BUCKLEY
• AVRIL LAVIGNE/GAVIN DEGRAW/REGINA SPEKTOR’S RODNEY HOWARD
76 NEW AND NOTABLE
THE COOLEST ITEMS FROM NAMM 2010
90
AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
FOUNDER MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY
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RONALDSPAGNARDI Bill Bruford, Harry Cangany, Dennis
1943–2003 DeLucia, Les DeMerle, Len DiMuzio,
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KEVINW. KEARNS Vogel Weiss, T. Bruce Wittet.
IT’S PERSONAL
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