The importance of keeping your ears fresh. ” You are what you hear” – I am sure we are all very familiar with this saying by now. It implies that your listening habits will determine the way you sound on the kit. I was reminded …

As you may or may not know, I am in the middle of writing my next cd. This blog is really meant to give you an idea of what i think about the tasks involved in the process of writing and my own personal view …

Do you want to improve your all around drumming skills? What is it that really makes you improve? Is it faster hands? Faster feet? More technique? Well…After teaching 1000′s of drummers across the globe, I can tell you that many many people have great technique, …

This interview is with great Italian pianist Ettore Carucci. He gives us his thoughts about drummers and a few tips as well. This interview is mostly for my Italian students as Ettore and I are speaking in Italian. If you speak Italian as well, have …

Every once in a while we all have to go through this. You get to a point where you want to play new stuff. You want to get another genre under your belt. You want to expand. In the quest to get new vocabulary under …

I have been getting lots of strange questions lately. Maybe its a sign of the times. People are a bit worried about the future maybe. Students have never asked me these types of questions straight out before. For example, “How do you get to make …

It goes without saying that the right teacher changes your life in drumming. Finding this teacher is one of the most important things you can do in your drumming life. Now…being self taught is something that many take pride in announcing. However, i just don’t …

This blog is dedicated to all the people who have written me, that are going through this problem. It seems to be a constant in many situations.  Maybe you find this hard to believe, but when i was much younger, it was hard for me …

You and I as musicians have a problem….. If you have ever hit a sweet spot in music, where everything flows out of you like water, or if you have ever had an out of body experience while playing, If you have ever had a …