Tag Archives: Music

Journey Through Sound with Charli Persip

SKF NOTE: This is post #2 of my life’s drumming milestones; revisiting drummers/recordings having a major impact on how I gauge drums, drummers, and drumming. Hearing these milestones appreciably broadened my drumming perspective. Drummer Charli Persip, in the early 1980s, … Continue reading

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Exploring Drumming Milestones: A Journey Through Sound

SKF NOTE: I think a lot about drummers and drumming. Often when driving, but most any time I’m in my own head: grocery shopping, savoring the day’s first cup of hot black coffee, gathering pinecones and sticks from the lawn, … Continue reading

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Neil Peart’s Advice to Anika Niiles?

SKF NOTE: A happy breakthrough. That’s how this video of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announcing a new Rush tour strikes me. Good for them. Certainly Neil Peart is smiling at the tour announcement. I can’t imagine Neil would react … Continue reading

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Added Percussion

SKF NOTE: Friday morning my car was alive with sounds of music. Listening in my VW Golf Sportwagen, enroute to pick up my grandson, and listening to guitarist Kenny Burrell’s “God Bless the Child” album on the CTI label. This … Continue reading

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Dave Tough Drumming Advice

SKF NOTE: My friend and former Modern Drummer Features Editor, Rick Mattingly, long ago mailed me these photocopies of drummer Dave Tough advice columns. Tough briefly wrote columns for Metronome magazine. Tough’s columns are fun and instructive reading. Here’s my … Continue reading

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