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VICFIRTH.COM ©2017 Vic Firth Company CONTENTS Volume 41 • Number 2 CONTENTS Cover and Contents photos by Alex Solca On the Cover 30 Stella Mozgawa “People are making music in such crazy ways! The levels of involvement and collaboration are so diff erent now.” Warpaint’s drummer has kept her workload fresh and fulfi lling by staying open to any creative method that’s thrown at her. In the process, she’s become one of the most intriguing percussive voices of her generation. by Adam Budofsky POWER IS MORE FEATURES 26 KORN’S RAY LUZIER. Sure, you can teach an old 50 THOR HARRIS. He recently stepped aside from dog new tricks—if he’s like this rare pro, who’s as hungry for the ragingly artful New York musical institution Swans to unique experiences at forty-seven as he was at seventeen. concentrate on his signifi cantly more subdued but equally by Mike Haid ambitious solo project. by Will Romano 28 TESTAMENT’S GENE HOGLAN. Does the Atomic 60 ARI HOENIG. What—a modern-jazz concept album? IMPORTANT Clock ever stop ticking? Not as long as there’s new metal to Well, it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with be made. And there’s always new metal to be made. the New York drummer, who long ago taught us to expect by David Ciauro the unexpected. by Ken Micallef 44 JOSH GROBAN’S BLAIR SINTA. Fifteen years 66 ROB THOMAS’S ABE FOGLE. Coming up, he after landing his breakout gig with Alanis Morissette, he’s couldn’t have known how far his melting-pot listening extended his real-world experience in multiple directions, habits would one day lead him. by Billy Amendola THAN GROOVE.* including a fresh take on online lessons. by Ilya Stemkovsky LESSONS EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENTS 72 Basics 16 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview Threes and Fives Natal Café Racer Series Drumset Signal to Noise Fills With Odd Groupings Paiste Signature Rides by Michael Dawson by Jayson Brinkworth Roland KT-9 and FD-9 Kick and Hi-Hat Controllers 10 Readers’ Platform 73 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic Gibraltar Beat EFX Bass Pedal Do You Transcribe? Groove Construction Enhancers GET BACK IN BLACK Part 10: Exploring a Killer 12 News WITH THE Cowbell Pattern 70 Gearing Up New Jamire Williams album, by Jost Nickel Nile’s George Kollias Hayley CramDer Eon tSourI wGith N SERIES Pop Evil, and more 74 Strictly Technique 82 New and Notable GIVEAWAY. 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