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CONTENTS Volume 42 • Number 11 CONTENTS Cover and Contents photos by Rick Malkin 28 NICK MASON by Adam Budofsky 32 STEPHEN MALKMUS ON THE COVER AND THE JICKS’ JAKE MORRIS CLUTCH’s by Adam Budofsky 34 JEAN-PAUL GASTER A quarter century in, he can lay 46 JAY-Z’S claim to having put down some ERIC “BOOTS” GREENE of the most beastly and brainy by Robin Tolleson drum tracks of the modern era. by Michael Dawson 52 JAN DELAY’S JOST NICKEL by Ken Micallef 56 8 REASONS TO LOVE WHITESNAKE by Ilya Stemkovsky LESSONS DEPARTMENTS 60 BASICS 8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Essential Cymbal Patterns Fundamental Figures to Spice Up Your Grooves Hidden Treasures by Billy Amendola by Powell Randolph 10 READERS’ PLATFORM 62 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE What’s Your Favorite Buddy Rich Performance? Flam Ostinatos A Creative Approach to a Drumming Staple by Luis Ricardo Méndez 12 OUT NOW 64 STYLE AND ANALYSIS Dean Butterworth on Good Charlotte’s Buddy Rich “Stars and Stripes Forever” by Eric Fischer Generation Rx 66 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP 13 ON TOUR Latin Jazz Drumming Part 2: Mambo Bell Variations by Steve Fidyk Jason Bowld with Bullet for My Valentine 68 ROCK PERSPECTIVES NEW COLUMN! 14 DRUM CAM Sticking Patterns for Odd Groupings Getting Comfortable with Fives and Sevens Aquiles Priester: “The Temple of Hate” by Aaron Edgar 15 MUST-HAVE GEAR 70 CONCEPTS Angel Olsen’s Josh Jaeger Fear, Ego, and Overplaying The Driving Forces Behind Forcing Chops by Dave Stark 26 ON TOPIC 72 HEALTH AND SCIENCE Sam Lay Drumset Ergonomics Part 5: Positioning the Hi-Hat, Ride, and Rack Toms by Brandon Green 76 RETAILER PROFILE Columbus Pro Percussion EQUIPMENT 80 CRITIQUE New Releases From Jojo Mayer’s Nerve, 16 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP 24 GEARING UP Finally George with Todd Sucherman, and more Ddrum Dios Series Snares Keith Urban’s Seth Rausch Legado Cymbals Heritage, 79V, 84 IN MEMORIAM Luxo Raw, and Caspian Series 74 NEW AND NOTABLE Jon Hiseman, Gene Stone Roland TM-6 Pro Trigger Module and RT-30 Triggers 86 INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS ToneAlly Percussion Teaching Tool Who’s Playing What, Evans UV1 Bass Drum Heads Beat Hunger Benefi t, and More WIN! 88 KIT OF THE MONTH Drums of the Tombs A Roland prize package worth more than $2,300! Page 87 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Hidden Treasures Founder Ronald Spagnardi 1943–2003 Hello, everyone in MD land. I hope your Publisher/CEO Isabel Spagnardi summer went well. There were so many classic and new bands out on the road; mith Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi S hopefully you got to enjoy a few of those ff Vice President Kevin W. Kearns e live shows. And hopefully you didn’t miss J Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns last month’s “Alive and Kicking!” theme issue, Advertising Director Bob Berenson in which we interviewed players who power the world’s biggest musical acts. We talked Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson to the drummers with Bruno Mars, Kendrick Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock Lamar, Bon Jovi, Damian Marley, and Lamb Contributing Designer Richard Leeds of God about their daily routines, their Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky nightly responsibilities, and what it takes to play at the very highest levels of stage Managing Editor Michael Dawson performance, where it’s not just the skills Associate Editor Willie Rose that matter, but the consistency. The issue is full of lessons we can all benefi t Editor at Large Billy Amendola from learning, no matter how big or how small the audiences are that we play to. Business and Content Development Miguel Monroy If you didn’t happen to catch the issue, though, you still can! In fact, you The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun, never have to miss an issue of Modern Drummer ever again. Every month, when Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen, the new MD hits newsstands, we post its entire contents online. 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