Monday, October 02, 2006

Drum Tips - Art of the Masters

Master Jazz Drummer Jack DeJohnette

Consciousness is a symptom of disease.
All that moves well moves without will.
All skillfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult;
a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy;
a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and
it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but
It that doeth itself through thee.
Not until then is that which is done, well done.

Thus spoke FRATER PERDURABO as he leapt
from rock to rock of the moraine without
ever casting his eyes upon the ground.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Drummers - October Birthdays

Famous Drummers who celebrate a birthday in October:

October 3, 1962 Tommy Lee
October 7, 1953 Tico Torres
October 11, 1936 Billy Higgins
October 17, 1909 Cozy Cole
October 25, 1924 Earl Palmer
October 25, 1962 Chad Smith
October 26, 1938 John "Jabo" Starks
October 26, 1976 Aaron Spears
October 27, 1924 Gary Chester
October 30, 1951 Trilok Gurtu
October 31, 1939 John Guerin
October 31, 1944 Sherman Ferguson
October 31, 1961 Larry Mullen jr.