When I started to play drums Neil Peart was one of my first influences, a true inspiration for his musical approach to drumming… he will be missed. Here’s a nice article by Paul Rogne: an interview to the photographer and drummer Rob Shanahan about his friendship with the legendary Neil Peart. I wanna thank you … More Rob Shanahan reflects on his friendship with Neil Peart
Welcome in 2020, I want to recommend you the Eugeniy Ivannikov’s YouTube channel: a great resource of drum transcriptions (mostly drum solos) and instructional videos. Dave Weckl, Philly Joe Jones, Nate Smith, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Jojo Mayer are some of the drummers transcribed in edited videos with the original audio, including the PDF useful for … More Drum Solo Transcriptions & more
Hi folks, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in 2020 with new stuff, thanks for all the support! https://www.facebook.com/francisdrummingblog https://www.instagram.com/francis_drumming_blog
Here’s the drum sheet music (3 pages) for Shake Your Tail Feather by The Blues Brothers, included in the film The Blues Brothers (1980) by John Landis. You can purchase the transcription here: https://sellfy.com/p/2fYE/ https://gumroad.com/l/QPaZf
Here’s a workout to develop and improve your ability to play ghost notes on an eight-note groove, playing different bass drum combinations. This is the first part of a series of exercises, you can apply this of course on the ride cymbal with various left-foot hi-hat ostinato. The difficult thing is to play the two … More Grooving with Ghost Notes – Part one
Hi folks, here’s the drum sheet music for Dave’s Gone Skiing by Toto from the album Tambu (1995) with Simon Phillips on drums. The drum transcription (5 pages) is available for free and includes also a drum notation key. It was fun and challenging to transcribe this song, I hope you appreciate. DOWNLOAD THE PDF … More Toto – Dave’s Gone Skiing (Drum Sheet Music)
This time I wanna recommend you something interesting to learn and study the Cuban drumming: a book created by Italian drummer and percussionist Aldo Mazza founder of the KoSa workshop in Canada. Cuban Rhythms for Percussion & Drumset is a great resource of the most popular grooves and rhythms of Cuba, including also several play-along … More Cuban Rhythms for Percussion & Drumset – The Essentials
I’m glad to share with you my new work ‘Strivers & Lost Souls’ out for Neele Records, available on all digital stores and streaming platforms. The EP includes four tracks, entirely composed and produced by me as Francis V, with an electronic sound and various influences from pop to film music. ✓ Follow Francis … More Francis V • Strivers & Lost Souls EP
Here’s the full drum sheet music (6 pages) for Schism by Tool from the legendary album Lateralus (2001) with Danny Carey on drums. The transcription is now available for purchase in two different versions (both include a drum notation key). 1) Includes the drum transcription for Schism in one printable PDF. https://sellfy.com/p/9fj6se/ https://gum.co/fNHmq 2) The … More Tool – Schism (Drum Sheet Music)
Developing samba ostinato putting together left-hand samba rhythm, telecoteco in the right-hand and foot samba pattern. Thank you to Adam Osmianski for sharing an interesting series of articles about the Kiko Freitas-style samba. http://thatdrumblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Kiko%20Freitas By the way, I’m now on Facebook… follow my page! 🙂
