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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