#NEWS Check out this Percussive Arts Society interview with Jason Mcgerr (🥁Death Cab for Cutie + long-time student and instructor at Seattle Drum School of Music).

October 2022
“Throughout my journey, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to sit with many of the worlds greatest players, but two influential and brilliant teachers have given me indispensable building blocks and systems of learning that I’ve used for nearly 30 years as a continuous student and educator. Steve Smith – from the Seattle Drum School, not Journey – gave me an easy to digest, yet incredibly deep approach to practicing independence…
Here’s a sample page from an upcoming book by Steve Smith, one that I was introduced to years ago and still use, incorporating various stickings or rudiments around the kit. The basic exercise as written isn’t difficult, but being able to vocalize the counting as well as singing individual hymns is the real challenge. It’s an excellent way to calibrate your time and feel with a backbeat at the core, making it both familiar and immediately musical. This page has been my default student intake form to gauge one’s natural independence and focus threshold.”

Find the full article at https://www.pas.org/publications/percussive-notes

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