CONTENTS
Equipment18 Product Close-Up • Tama Silverstar Cocktail Jam Drumset • CRX Xtreme Brilliant Cymbals • Cympad Moderator Cymbal Washers • Gibraltar 9600 Series Thrones • Sabian Stick Flip
26 Electronic Review Drum Earz DRM-1X In-Ear Monitors
28 Gearing Up The Faint’s Clark Baechle
80 Collector’s Corner Big Bertha
82 New and Notable
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Education67 Basics Power Triplets Putting the Roll in Your Rock by Rich Redmond
68 Strictly Technique Duple/Triple Single-Diddle Gear Shifters Part 1: 8th-Note Triplets and 16ths by Bill Bachman
71 Around the World Samba Starter Part 4: The Mocidade School by Adam Osmianski
72 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic Groove Freedom Part 3: 32nd-Note Patterns by Mike Johnston
74 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop Syncopation Revisited Part 5: Afro-Cuban Applications by Steve Fidyk 78 Concepts Artistry Versus Commerce Balance Is Everything by Russ Miller
Departments8 An Editor’s Overview Highway Star by Billy Amendola
11 Readers’ Platform
12 News
16 It’s Questionable Mind Matters: The Unglamorous Side of Gigging
84 Showcase Featuring Drum Market
90 Critique
94 Backbeats 2014 Chicago Drum Show
96 Kit of the Month Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Volume 38 • Number 10
On the Cover
Features
46 Deep Purple’sIan Paiceby “Pistol” Pete KaufmannFor almost � fty years, there’s been only one drummer in the legendary classic-rock band Deep Purple. And this is exactly as it should be.
30 Encore Shudder to Think’s Pony Express Record. by David Jarnstrom
32 Catching Up With… Simon Kirke /// Steve Fidyk /// Bob Pantella
34 Tim Very Owning it with Manchester Orchestra. by Ben Meyer
36 Tal Bergman Joe Bonamassa’s funky, � ery foil. by Robin Tolleson
56 In� uences Bill Stevenson, punk drumming godhead. by Stephen Bidwell
58 Rudy Royston The bold jazzer makes his solo statement. by Ken Micallef
64 Ryan Brown Tackling Zappa Plays Zappa. by David Brensilver
88 Up & Coming Maya Tuttle of the Colourist. by Adam Budofsky
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