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As senior Snarky drummer Robert Searight suggests, the band’s rst studio album in eight years, Culcha Vulcha, is all about the bigger picture—a grand tapestry of sound resulting from multiple drummers and percussionists carefully picking their parts and contributing to grooves of great depth. by Willie Rose Cover photos by Andy LaViolette and Christian Thomas Hynes FEATURES 20 Catching Up With…Flotsam and Jetsam’s 56 VICTOR DELORENZO. He established a sound and JASON BITTNER and Good Tiger’s ALEX RÜDINGER personality with alt-rock icons the Violent Femmes that remains long after his departure. But he’s not standing 40 SARAH TOMEK. Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler still, drumming-wise or otherwise. by Will Romano recently moved to Nashville to nd his solo voice, and the players he found there—including this barn-burning 60 UP & COMING: CHRIS WOOLLISON. If it’s not Jersey transplant—knew exactly what he needed. about chops, can it really be called prog? Poly-Math’s by Adam Budofsky texture-obsessed drummer unequivocally says yes— and backs it up brilliantly at the kit. by Ilya Stemkovsky 50 PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE. This Norwegian drummer’s worldview seemingly recognizes no borders whatsoever. 88 IN MEMORIAM: REMO BELLI by Ken Micallef Players and peers o er insight into one of the drum industry’s indisputable giants. EDUCATION EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENTS 64 Basics 22 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview Fundamental Fills Tama Superstar Classic Drumset Competition Part 2: Solid 16th-Note Triplets Zildjian S Family Cymbals by Willie Rose by Donny Gruendler C&C Maple Gum Drumset Promark ActiveGrip Forward 5A 10 Readers’ Platform 66 Strictly Technique Drumsticks Treating, managing, and Hearing the Click on the “E” preventing blisters Shifting the Metronome to Improve Time 62 Gearing Up by Powell Randolph Whitesnake’s Tommy Aldridge 14 News Alex Shelnutt on A Day to Remember’s 68 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic 76 Shop Talk Bad Vibrations, Chris Turner on tour with Groove Construction, Part 5 Ludwig & Ludwig Super-Ludwig and Oceans Ate Alaska Ghost Notes Using an Ostinato Approach Super-Sensitive Snare Drums by Jost Nickel by Mark Cooper 18 It’s Questionable Humidity and Drums 70 Around the World 77 Collector’s Corner African Pop Meets American Funk Walberg and Auge 80 Showcase Exploring the Mangambe Rhythm The Forgotten Brand Lives Again featuring Drum Market by Steve Rucker by Harry Cangany 84 Critique 72 Rock Perspectives 78 New and Notable Beyond Turbines with Virgil Donati, a Groove Contraction quartet of Pat Mastelotto recordings. Creating Tension and Release by Aaron Edgar 86 Inside Methods Aaron Sterling’s Sound of Sterloid Vol. 1 74 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop Five-Note Patterns 87 Encore Analyzing and Exploring an Odd Grouping Win an Incredible Prize Package Metallica’s Ride the Lightning by Greg Sundel From Pearl Drums and V-Classic Cymbals! Page 83 94 Backbeats 75 Concepts Woodstick Groove 2016 Playing From the Inside Out Remove the Unintentional 96 Kit of the Month by Russ Miller Katrina Restoration AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Founder Senior Art Director Competition Ronald Spagnardi Scott G. Bienstock 1943–2003 Editorial Director was recently asked to do Publisher/CEO Adam J. Budofsky I a recording session that I Isabel Spagnardi couldn’t make due to scheduling Managing Editor confl icts. While going through Senior Vice President Michael Dawson contacts to fi nd a sub, I was Lori Spagnardi Associate Editor reminded of an unprompted Vice President Willie Rose comment that Robert “Sput” Kevin W. Kearns Searight made during our con- Editor at Large versation for this month’s feature Associate Publisher Billy Amendola on Snarky Puppy’s drummers. Tracy A. Kearns “The thing about Snarky Business and Advertising Director Content Development Puppy,” Searight said, “is that Bob Berenson Miguel Monroy everybody always asks or gets some notion that this is a bad D a v e H il l Advertising Assistant Digital Media Director thing—like there’s supposed LaShanda Gibson EJ DeCoske to be tension between three guys playing for one band. I’ve done The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun, interviews where that’s been the underlying tone—How do you feel Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen, about someone else playing your gig? From promoters to fans to YouTube Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward, comments—I’d have to tell JT to stop getting on there to defend our Taku Hirano, Susie Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein, Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley, rights, because he’s such a passionate guy. You can really get caught up Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward, in that. But we’re all really brothers and friends.” Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico Searight made the comment toward the end of my conversations with MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY BOARD: SUBSCRIPTIONS: U.S.