One of the most deceptively difficult concepts I stumbled upon in my journey improving drums is listening to jazz. Background I’d grown up primarily in

When we turn pro, we give up a life with which we may have become extremely comfortable. Stephen Pressfield Stephen Pressfield says in his books

There’s always the danger of sounding inhuman. You’re not obliged to take a breath before you do something. Wind players are obliged to be human,

It feels way too simple to say that showing up is enough. It feels too simple to say putting up posters is enough. That talking

This week, I asked myself one question repeatedly: How do I get more in groove? Here are the answers I heard. 1. Don’t fill until

Foreword: This post is going to be shorter/simpler than the quality I’m aspiring towards down the line. Reason being: I want to get consistent with

Every year I journey into a new genre of drumming as part of developing a synoptical knowledge of different genres. It’s a little something I

Hey you, You can’t expect yourself to be perfect when showing up for the first time. You won’t be the fastest runner in the group.

A notion I’ve been toying with for improving my sense of time in drumming is to start using a random dropout feature with metronomes. The

I’ve been on a binge reading spree of books like Million Dollar Weekend, E-Myth, The Business of Expertise, The Practice, and several other Seth Godin