CONTENTS
Equipment18 Collector’s Corner G&M Custom
20 Product Close-Up • Pork Pie Rosewood/ Zebrawood Drumkit • Maxonix StickARK Kick-Mount Drumstick Holder • Sabian XS20 Additions • Dixon Drums & Hardware Cajon Pedal Plus • Geo. H. Way Tradition Series Snare Drums
26 Gearing Up The Eagles’ Scott Crago
Cover and contents photos by Alex Solca
Win This Wild Dixon Drumkit
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Education52 Strictly Technique
Rhythm and Timing Part 4: 8th-Note Tripletsby Bill Bachman
56 Around the World Belly Dance Rhythms for Drumset
Traditional and Modern Applicationsby Ruben van Rompaey
58 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic Groove Freedom Part 1: One-, Two-, and Three-Note Permutations by Mike Johnston
60 In the PocketDubstep Drumming Part 2: Essential Tracks
by Donny Gruendler
64 Jazz Drummer’s WorkshopSyncopation Revisited Part 1: Basic Applications
by Steve Fidyk
66 Classical RootsPart 6: Iannis Xenakisby Elizabeth Walsh
Departments8 An Editor’s Overview Here Comes the Sun! by Billy Amendola
10 Readers’ Platform
12 News
14 Ask a Pro Joe Bergamini, Alex Van Halen
16 It’s Questionable Mind Matters: Dad‘s Sick, but I‘m Scheduled to Tour
84 Showcase Featuring Drum Market
88 Critique
90 Inside Methods Peter Erskine Apps
94 Backbeats Guitar Center Drum-O� Grand Finals
96 Kit of the Month Steel Drums
Volume 38 • Number 6
On the Cover
Features
28 Catching Up With… Thompson Square’s Angelo Collura /// Robert Wyatt /// Mogwai’s Martin Bulloch
30 Jaimeo Brown The drummer/leader has something many of his peers don’t: a concept. by Robin Tolleson
50 Steve Goulding New wave’s best singer-songwriters knew who to turn to for a great groove and a smart drum part. by Patrick Berkery
68 New at NAMM 2014 Ten packed pages covering all of this year’s buzz-worthy drum gear.
92 Encore ZZ Top Tres Hombres Let’s just pretend we never heard those criminal ’90s remixes, okay? Because this one’s a monster. by Patrick Berkery
34 Nate Morton by Billy AmendolaEver wonder what it’s like to play in the band on a high-stakes competitive TV show? Us too—so we asked! The heartbeat of The Voice opens his daily journal and tells a tale that you de� -nitely won’t read anywhere else. And, in an exclusive interview, he reveals his equally intriguing backstory.
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