Modern Drummer Issue 469

2018·46.6 MB·English

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CONTENTS
Volume 42 • Number 12
CONTENTS
Cover and Contents photos by Rick Malkin
28 IN THE STUDIO:
SUGARLAND AND
FRANKIE BALLARD’S
TRAVIS MCNABB
ON THE COVER by Sayre Berman
JASON ALDEAN’s 30 DRUM WISDOM:
34 RICH REDMOND MARK WALKER
by Ken Micallef
With twenty-one number-ones
to his credit, countless sold-out
46 MIKE CLARK
tours, and an endless stream of
by Ken Micallef
TV appearances, he’s lived
practically every musician’s
52 XENIA RUBINOS’
dream.
MARCO BUCCELLI
by Mike Haid
by Robin Tolleson
56 KEITH MOON:
AN EXAMINATION
by John Colpitts
LESSONS DEPARTMENTS
62 BASICS 8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
The Modern Drummer Guide to Reading Rhythms Part 1: Fundamental Elements Drums: The Secret to Happiness
of Music Notation by Miguel Monroy by Adam Budofsky
64 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE 10 READERS’ PLATFORM
On Relaxation An In-Depth Study to Develop Consistency by Josh Jones What’s Your Favorite Keith Moon Performance?
66 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP 12 OUT NOW
Roy Haynes’ Phrasing Modern Interpretations and Variations by Mike Alfi eri Clint Schnase on Cursive’s Vitriola
68 AROUND THE WORLD 13 ON TOUR
Samba Rhythms Part 1: The Importance of the Tamborim by Kiko Freitas Scott Seiver with Tenacious D
70 ROCK PERSPECTIVES 14 DRUM CAM
Polyrhythmic Rudiment Applications Using Standard Stickings to Tackle Manu Delago’s “Rudi”
Odd Groupings by Aaron Edgar
15 MUST-HAVE GEAR
72 HEALTH AND SCIENCE Session Great Nir Z
Drumset Ergonomics Part 6: Positioning Secondary Suspended Instruments
78 CRITIQUE
by Brandon Green
Questlove’s latest book and more
EQUIPMENT 80 INSIDE METHODS
Aaron Sterling’s Sound of Sterloid, Volume II
16 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP 26 GEARING UP
82 IN MEMORIAM
Roland TD-17KVX V-Drums Quicksand’s Alan Cage
Pantera’s Vinnie Paul, Elvis Presley’s D.J. Fontana,
Off Set Eclipse Double Pedal
Richard Swift
Paiste Masters Extra Thin and
Dark Additions 74 NEW AND NOTABLE 84 INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS
Mo Drumsticks Magnetic Beater System The 2018 Chicago Drum Show

88 KIT OF THE MONTH
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AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
Drums: The Secret to Happiness
Founder
Ronald Spagnardi
1943–2003
Last summer my family and I decided to move
Publisher/CEO Isabel Spagnardi
out of the house we’d been living in for thirteen
years, and into a new one. Among other things, the Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi
old place didn’t have a basement, and the jazz-size Vice President Kevin W. Kearns
drumkit we kept in the family room prevented all
Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns
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fi ve of us from being able to sit and watch TV at the osit Advertising Director Bob Berenson
same time. p
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By move-in day, I’d pretty much forgotten what m Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson
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the other rooms in the new house even looked like, Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock
but that basement…. I’d spent hours since we fi rst
Contributing Designer Richard Leeds
saw it obsessing over exactly where I would put the drums, guitars, keyboards, and
Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky
amps that I’d accumulated over the years, but that I was never able to set up in our
old home. Managing Editor Michael Dawson
I went down to my unfi nished, underground haven-in-the-making, and started Associate Editor Willie Rose
setting up my drumset, which I could fi nally blow out the way I wanted: Rototoms,
Editor at Large Billy Amendola
27" China, electronic pads, 10" and 12" aux snares…. As I dug through my box full
of multiclamps, I thought to myself, This is going to be great! Business and Content Development Miguel Monroy
When I sat behind my elaborate new setup and began to play, though, I noticed
The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun,
that all those extra pieces forced my kit to expand farther away from my body. It Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen,
was actually uncomfortable reaching for certain things. I began to think about Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward,
Taku Hirano, Susie Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein,
Brandon Greene’s current series in MD on Drumset Ergonomics, and that perhaps I
Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley,
should give the articles another read so that I could better adapt to this setup. Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward,
I also realized something that I knew in my heart but chose to ignore in the run- Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico
up to the set-up: Adding a bunch of new targets is not always a recipe for artistic
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