A PRIZE PACKAGE FROM TAMA $ WIN RETAIL VALUE OVER 7,500 ZEPPELIN • STONES • THE WHO MODERNTHE WORLD’S #1 DRUM MAGAZINE DRUMMERApril 2013 TRIPLET ROLL CREATE WARM-UPS YOUR OWN 18 EFFECTS CYMBALS DAUGHTRY’S STEPHEN PERKINS ON ROBIN DIAZ KEITH MOON TOMMYTHE PREMIER PLAYER/TEACHER IGOE WILL PUT YOU ON THE RIGHT PATH (Only It Might Not Be the One You Think) ModernDrummer.com + MARVIN McQUITTY JR. REMEMBERED + GENE HOGLAN INFLUENTIAL METAL MASTER + DIXON ARTISAN SELECT KIT REVIEWED + MELVINS’ DALE CROVER 51/51 TOUR DIARY Volume 37, Number 4 • Cover and contents photos by Emily Sevin CONTENTS EDUCATION On the Cover 56 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE Loosen Up! 18 Triplet-Roll Warm-Ups to Get You Going 44 TOMMY by Joel Popelsky 58 AROUND THE WORLD Implied Brazilian Rhythms on Drumset Part 1: Maracatu IGOE by Uka Gameiro by Ken Micallef 60 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC It’s simple: Hang with the Broadway Grooving With Fives A Progressive Approach to Phrasing and big band vet long enough, Quintuplets on the Drumkit by Mike McPhee and you will become a better drummer. Class is now in session. 62 ROCK PERSPECTIVES The Half-Time Shuffle Variations on One of Drumming’s Slinkiest Grooves by Dave Beyer 64 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP Pete La Roca Sims Style & Analysis by Steve Fidyk EQUIPMENT 22 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP FEATURING • DIXON Artisan Select Drumset • PAISTE Formula 602 and Giant Beat Additions 12 UPDATE • AQUARIAN Nu-Brite Film and Super-Kick 10 Bass Drum Head 1 • Studio Ace NIR Z. • ANTONIO DRUMS 4 /2x14 True Solid Maple Snare • Antibalas’s MILES ARNTZEN • Utopia’s KEVIN ELLMAN 27 ELECTRONIC REVIEW AKG D12 VR Microphone 20 FIRST PERSON DALE CROVER on Melvins Lite’s Record-Setting 51/51 Tour 28 GEARING UP David Byrne and St. Vincent’s BRIAN WOLFE 70 SHOP TALK Cutting-Edge Cymbals 31 GET THE BEST Featuring Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, and the Who 72 NEW AND NOTABLE 32 STEPHEN PERKINS ON KEITH MOON DEPARTMENTS The MD Pro Panelist and Jane’s Addiction drummer discusses the Who classic Live at Leeds. 8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Doing the Hard Work by Michael Parillo 34 ROBIN DIAZ by Billy Amendola 10 READERS’ PLATFORM Landing a permanent gig with Daughtry carries a lot of meaning for the former “ghost drummer.” 15 ASK A PRO Aaron Spears, Philly Joe Jones Now his beats are his, and his alone. 18 IT’S QUESTIONABLE 54 INFLUENCES: GENE HOGLAN Relic in the Attic • Mind Matters: Why Can’t We Be Friends? by David Ciauro He introduced a style of metal drumming that 80 SHOWCASE Featuring Drum Market took the road less traveled—and we’ve stayed glued to the Atomic Clock’s GPS ever since. 90 CRITIQUE 92 IN MEMORIAM Marvin McQuitty Jr. 68 PORTRAITS Snarky Puppy’s ROBERT “SPUT” SEARIGHT by Ken Micallef 96 KIT OF THE MONTH This Old Thing? 84 A DIFFERENT VIEW STEVE HACKETT by Will Romano WIN A PRIZE PACKAGE FROM TAMA MD DIGITAL SUBSCRIBERS! 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The article rightly credits Jones for stylis- tic innovations that made him “one of his- tory’s most influential drummers.” To that information I’d like to proudly add that Jo made his mark on the drumming scene behind a set of Gretsch-Gladstone drums. In fact, the photo of Jo that’s on page 44 of your issue appeared on the cover of the 1941 Gretsch catalog, as well as in print ads of that time.