“You have waited for it and everything is in the book. So get your hands together now. (smile) KEEP THE GROOVE ALIVE!” - PROF. Lane
This dynamic guide is a creative and methodical array of hot, grooving, dexterity-building, rudimental exercises. Each series of grooves is divided into seven sections that are one-hand, single-stroke, diddle, flam, drag, roll, and rudiment combinations. Rudimental Snare Drum Grooves is intended to serve as a bridge between beginning and more advanced player methods. This method enables you to approach each rudiment as a rhythmic study, allowing for a more groove-driven sound while performing rudiments. The accompanying CD provides professionally performed demonstrations of all the grooves shown in the book.
Purchase the book from Hal Leonard Online
Tags: book, Groove, rudiments, snare drum
Boston, MA October 2008 - Vic Firth Inc., the world’s largest and leading manufacturer of drumsticks and mallets, is proud to announce the new
“Groove Series” Johnny Lee Lane Signature Groove Stick!
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As one of the nation’s foremost college percussion educators, Johnny Lee Lane has taught and inspired percussion students for over 33 years and has been a leader within the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) marching band activity. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Groove Series, press release, Sticks, Vic Firth
Hey folks, Darren Scorza here. This is the first of a series of articles featuring a common theme. I’m calling it “The Frugal Drummer”. Throughout these articles, I’ll show you some of the ideas that I’ve developed using just “Syncopation” and “Stick Control”.
I still remember the day that Prof Lane started showing me the Alan Dawson method of using Syncopation to develop jazz independence. Ever since then I’ve been trying different ideas, and trying to come up with other challenges using these methods. Of course, Stick Control can also be used at the drumset. And this is nothing new, all kinds of drummers have come up with cool exercises using these books. Gary Chester’s New Breed takes these concepts even further.
Books with very specific applications are very useful, but I don’t seem to find a lot of uses for what’s in them, beyond a purely technical proficiency. However, many of the exercises I’m gonna display were created to fix a certain technical problem I was having. One day’s new exercise was yesterday’s screw-up on the bandstand. I hope you enjoy working through them, and please contact me with an comments or questions.
Please go along with me on these titles. My third favorite book is Charles Wilcoxon’s “Modern Rudimental Swing Solos” book. I always loved the weird titles. Enjoy!!
So here we go with part one of “the Frugal Drummer.”
Tags: darren scorza, drums, Exercises, stick control
Johnny Lee Lane (l) accepting the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award from PAS Vice President Lisa Rogers at the PASIC 2007 Hall of Fame Banquet.
November 2, 2007
Columbus, OH
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The infamous Mid-West Funk Factory drum line recording is once again available for purchase.
Want to hear how Prof’s cadences are meant to be played? Here’s your chance!
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Quint Campbell
Tags: drumline, EIU, funk factory
Here is an very interesting article for the website from one of my students of my first five years at Eastern. Prof.
Ladies and Gentlemen, at the request of the “Prof”, my mentor, my hero, Johnny Lee Lane, I am sharing some thoughts on my experiences teaching overseas. This August I will begin my twenty-second year of working overseas. Add to that my three year tour in Germany while in the United States Air Force and I have spent nearly half my life living on continents other than North America. Read the rest of this entry »
I GRADUATED… now what?
What to Expect In Your First Year as a Gigging Musician
Article #2
“Reliability and Base” I was cool and confident playing my first gig in Nashville at a small club called Windows on the Cumberland with an avant-garde jazz band called “The Transcendental Crayon Ensemble.” Ok, I was a nervous wreck! Walking into a place I had never been to, drumming on a house kit I had never seen, with musicians I had never met. Oh yeah, the drummer that called me to sub for him… I hadn’t met him either!! I was a little uneasy.
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By Tony Artimisi
Many of my friends from EIU are somewhere near the threshold of graduation. The several times I have had the blessing to speak to them, the common question has been what to expect in the first year as a gigging musician. Following is the first of what I hope will be a series of articles dealing with this topic.
What to Expect In Your First Year as a Gigging Musician
Article #1: “Introduction and Initial Contacts”
by Zack Rodriguez
So you’re a hot shot snare drummer who can grid any cheesed rudiment over a 7/16 pattern while running backwards diagonally at 220 beats per minute playing at a 22″ stick height…but you can’t play 16 consistent 8th notes in a row to save your neck. Thanks, try again next year. This senario is seen all to often at an audition for drum and bugle corps drum lines.
Tags: Audition, drum corps, drumline, EIU, funk factory
